News Topic: WSJcomBankruptcyBeat

Sony Music Entertainment Sly and The Family Stone Sly Stone’s former manager, who the troubled singer claims duped him into signing away his music royaltie ... Read full article

Bidder protections—a common feature in Chapter 11 bankruptcy auctions—hit their highest level in recent years, new data show. Morgan Joseph TriArtisan LLC , an investment bank that focuses on the middle market, recently reported that the average amount of ... Read full article

European Pressphoto Agency Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is selling more of the claims against its defunct brokerage, as part of a continuing strategy to quickly recover money that will go to its creditors. ... Read full article

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This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, Joe Francis speaks to Bankruptcy Beat. Also, an appellate court tosses a legal judgment against the Girls Gone Wild founder. ... Read full article

Reuters “Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis arrives at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles. Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis says the trustee who ... Read full article

A bankruptcy judge on Thursday warned ATP Oil & Gas Corp. that it’s not “preordained” that he’ll approve the asset sale the company has long been pinning its hopes on but which has run into complications. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here ... Read full article

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Dance New Amsterdam , a nonprofit New York dance education and performance center, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week to gain the breathing room it needs to stage its restructuring. According to court papers filed Monday , DNA listed ... Read full article

By Deborah Gage Tech investor and entrepreneur Halsey Minor filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy last week in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Los Angeles. Minor lists his liabilities as $50 million to $100 million, primarily in business debts, with assets in the $10 ... Read full article

Ahern Rentals Inc. and its bondholders have agreed to a path out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the construction-equipment company, narrowly avoiding a showdown over rival restructuring plans. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

It’s report-card season, and the federal government’s team of bankruptcy watchdogs isn’t immune from evaluation. In a self-generated report card, those watchdogs say they’ve earned straight A’s in everything but executive bonuses. ... Read full article

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The Texas company that once held the license to sell the Zerona fat-melting laser machines, which offers incision-free liposuction in the offices of cosmetic surgeons, has filed for bankruptcy protection to try to keep its grip on its recently terminated ... Read full article

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, Sinbad is in bankruptcy, and Joe Francis is mad at the jury that convicted him of assault. Also, the IRS wants to resolve Dionne Warwick’s unpaid taxes. ... Read full article

Ally Financial Inc. said Thursday it will pay $2.1 billion to its mortgage subsidiary Residential Capital and the unit’s creditors under an agreement reached last week that could move the Detroit-based lender closer to repaying its government bailout. ... Read full article

Joel Ryan/Associated Press Dionne Warwick in November 2012 The Internal Revenue Service is wishin’ and hopin’ it can resolve Dionne Warwick’s unpaid taxes. ... Read full article

Reuters With the arrival of Allan Diamond  in Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP’s liquidation, former partners and their new law firms s ... Read full article