News Topic: WSJcomBankruptcyBeat

Associated Press Patrick Dempsey Forget Patrick Dempsey. ... Read full article

Overseas Shipholding Group Inc. is seeking to restrict trading of its stock to protect more than $100 million in tax breaks. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

Creditors of A123 Systems Inc. are seeking to hire a lobbying firm in an attempt to stop political forces—including opposition from the battery maker’s “jilted stalking horse bidder”—from derailing a $256.6 million sale deal. Read the Daily Bankruptcy ... Read full article

Associated Press People dressed in a Santa Claus and a reindeer costume walk with their dog in Nottingham, England. Santa Claus may be ... Read full article

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, Tim Durham can’t afford to appeal his fraud conviction, and Betsey Johnson has no plans to retire. Also, a museum dedicated to Wayne Newton is up for sale. ... Read full article

Bloomberg Travelers check in for flights at the American Airlines Inc. counter at LaGuardia Airport on Nov. 21, 2012. American Airlines parent AMR Corp. ... Read full article

American Airlines parent AMR Corp. is looking to offload a townhouse in London’s upscale Kensington neighborhood, a brief walk from the palace that’s home to Prince William and Kate Middleton . ... Read full article

Associated Press Eastman Kodak Co.'s proposed $527 million sale ... Read full article

European Pressphoto Agency Eastman Kodak Co. ... Read full article

Associated Press/Los Angeles Times Timothy Durham is taken into custody by FBI Agents at the Federal Building in Westwood, Calif., on Wednesday, March 16, 2011. ... Read full article

Wall Street bond insurers say Stockton, Calif., leaders overlooked cost-cutting measures and failed to raise taxes before putting it under bankruptcy protection. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

Edison International 's  Edison Mission Energy has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after reaching a settlement with Edison International and certain of its senior unsecured noteholders. Read the article in Daily Bankruptcy Review . ... Read full article

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, celebs seem to be spending the holiday season away from bankruptcy, but we’ve got a few snippets for you. An anthropomorphized Ding Dong talks about Hostess on “Saturday Night Live,” and Toni Braxton has had some ... Read full article

NewPage Corp. won confirmation Thursday of a Chapter 11 plan that shakes billions of dollars in debt off its balance sheet. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

Barclays Capital’s job advising Asarco LLC during its restructuring may have ended three years ago when the copper miner exited Chapter 11, but the investment banker can’t drive off into the sunset just yet. ... Read full article

K-V Pharmaceutical Co. , which filed for bankruptcy this summer after running afoul of government regulators, has lined up a trio of investment firms to pay off a rival drug maker and to fund its exit from Chapter 11. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review ... Read full article

Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images A photo of a partially eaten McDonalds’ Big Mac hamburger atop french fries. ... Read full article

A federal judge on Tuesday approved the sale of A123 Systems Inc., the government-backed battery maker that has yet to turn a profit, to China’s Wanxiang America Corp. for $256.6 million. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article