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Steve Helber/Associated Press Workers inspect an area outside a retaining wall around storage tanks where a chemical leaked into the Elk River at Freedom Industries storage facility in Charlest ... Read full article

China’s Wanxiang Group emerged as the winning bidder Friday at a bankruptcy auction for the assets of Fisker Automotive Inc., according to sources familiar with the results of the competition. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via The Wall Street ... Read full article

Steve Helber/Associated Press Workers inspect an area outside a retaining wall around storage tanks where a chemical leaked into the Elk River at Freedom Industries storage facility in Charlest ... Read full article

This week on The Broke and the beautiful, a couple of celebrity bankruptcy cases are coming to light. Sitcom star Drake Bell has been in bankruptcy since last May, and former “Baywatch” star Donna D’Errico took her own turn in Chapter 7. Also, Betsey ... Read full article

New Jersey Bankruptcy Judge Morris “Mickey” Stern, died Wednesday after battling cancer for more than a year. He was 72. Judge Stern —called “Mickey” by colleagues—became a judge in 2001 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Newark, N.J. , where he presided ... Read full article

New Jersey Bankruptcy Judge Morris “Mickey” Stern, died Wednesday after battling cancer for more than a year. He was 72. Judge Stern —called “Mickey” by colleagues—became a judge in 2001 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Newark, N.J. , where he presided ... Read full article

This week on The Broke and the beautiful, a couple of celebrity bankruptcy cases are coming to light. Sitcom star Drake Bell has been in bankruptcy since last May, and former “Baywatch” star Donna D’Errico took her own turn in Chapter 7. Also, Betsey ... Read full article

The team unwinding Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. has reached a $767 million settlement with Freddie Mac , which will result in Lehman Brothers releasing hundreds of millions of dollars more to customers. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via ... Read full article

Erik Schelzig/Associated Press A judge may have recently let PricewaterhouseCoopers  off the hook  in a class-action ... Read full article

The team unwinding Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. has reached a $767 million settlement with Freddie Mac , which will result in Lehman Brothers releasing hundreds of millions of dollars more to customers. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article via ... Read full article

Overseas Shipholding Group Wednesday reached an agreement with holders of 60% of its $1.5 billion top-ranking loan on a Chapter 11 plan that will bring the oil tanker operation out of bankruptcy. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

Erik Schelzig/Associated Press A judge may have recently let PricewaterhouseCoopers  off the hook  in a class-action ... Read full article

Overseas Shipholding Group Wednesday reached an agreement with holders of 60% of its $1.5 billion top-ranking loan on a Chapter 11 plan that will bring the oil tanker operation out of bankruptcy. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . ... Read full article

Placido Domingo attends a press conference in Vienna, Austria, in January. European Pressphoto Agency Plácido Domingo, the opera star who launched his ca ... Read full article

A rental-car company needs more money, a veggie business is hoping for a healthy sale and a thrift store starts to liquidate, and are all on the bankruptcy agenda next week. Advantage Rent a Car has asked to borrow an additional $20 million in bankruptcy ... Read full article

Join us Tuesday, February 11, at 10:45 a.m. to hear The Wall Street Journal’s Stephanie Gleason moderate a “year ahead in bankruptcy” discussion with bankruptcy and restructuring experts Steve Zelin of The Blackstone Group and Lisa Donahue of AlixPartners ... Read full article

Plastipak Packaging Inc. of Michigan outbid Australia’s Amcor Ltd. at a bankruptcy auction for substantially all of the assets of Constar International Holdings LLC, a Philadelphia-based maker of plastic bottles, court papers say. Read the Daily ... Read full article

Julie Jacobson/Associated Press Gaming industry representatives stop to play various slot machines at the Global Gaming Expo on Sept. ... Read full article