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Boomerang Tube Enters Bankruptcy, Plans to Hand Control to Lenders

06/10/15

Boomerang Tube LLC, a maker of pipes and tubing for oil and natural gas companies, filed Tuesday for bankruptcy protection with a plan to hand control of the company to its lenders. The Wall Street Journal has the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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Trump Union Protesters Deliver Letter to Icahn’s Office

06/09/15
Trump Taj Mahal workers protest outside of Carl Icahn‘s office on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on Monday, June 8.
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Health Diagnostic Laboratory Enters Chapter 11

06/09/15
The exterior of the Health Diagnostic Labratory, Inc.
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Lehman Brothers to Pay Barclays to End Legal Battle

06/08/15

The long-running legal battle between Lehman Brothers Inc. and Barclays PLC , which bought Lehman’s brokerage business days after the investment bank collapsed, has ended. The Wall Street Journal has the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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Mike Piazza Expresses Interest in Buying Parma

06/05/15

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, former baseball great Mike Piazza is interested in buying Parma, and film studio Relativity Media is doing some refinancing. Also, Teresa Giudice made her first tweet from prison.

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Next Week in Bankruptcy

06/05/15

Next week in New York, NII Holdings Inc. will continue pressing the case that its restructuring plan should be approved.

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Caesars Restructuring Chief Wants Parties to ‘Come Together’

06/05/15
Caesars Palace casino in Las Vegas
Reuters

Caesars Entertainment Operating Co.’s restructuring chief said Thursday he thinks the company has “set the tab

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Coming and Going Concerns

06/04/15

Brian K. Gart has joined the Gordian Group as managing director and general counsel. Mr. Gart, who has worked with boards of directors for companies in distressed financial situations, most recently was a partner with law firm Berger Singerman. He also has experience working with bankruptcy trustees, creditors’ committees and plan funders. Mr.

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J.P. Morgan Chase Wins Legal Battle to Avoid WaMu Liabilities

06/04/15
Zach Jasnoff and David Cass walk outside a Washington Mutual Inc. bank branch in New York, U.S., on Thursday, Sept.
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Strawberry Farm Takes Dispute With Selling Agent to Bankruptcy Court

06/03/15
Associated Press/Matthew Mead

The fight between a California strawberry grower and the middleman that gets its berries to Trader Joe’s and other grocery stores keeps getting juicier.

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