Real Industry Inc. Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Relief in Delawar...

On November 17, 2017, Real Industry, Inc., along with its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively the “Debtors” or “Real Industry”), filed a petition for relief under Chapter 11 in the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (Case No. 17-12464).

According to the Declaration in Support of First Day Motions of Michael J. Hobey, liquidity issues and certain singular negative events have led to Real Industry’s bankruptcy filing. The Debtors operate an aluminum recycling and alloy production company based in Beachwood, Ohio.

Contemporaneously, Real Alloy Holding, Inc. and its U.S. subsidiaries filed petitions for voluntary Chapter 11 reorganization in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.  However, Real Alloy’s operations in Germany, United Kingdom, Norway, Canada and Mexico and its Goodyear, Ariz. joint venture are not included in the filings.

The First Day Hearing is scheduled for Monday, November 20th at 1:00 PM at US Bankruptcy Court, 824 Market St., 5th Fl., Courtroom #5, Wilmington, Delaware.  The Debtors have have filed a number of First Day Motions, including, but not limited to, the following:

• Motion to Pay Employee Wages and Maintain and Continue Certain Compensation and Benefit Programs Postpetition;
• Motion for Continuation of Utility Service and Approval of Adequate Assurance of Payment to Utility Company Under Section 366(b);
• Motion to Pay Critical Trade Vendor Claims and Authorizing the Debtors to Pay Certain Prepetition Claims of Shippers, Warehousemen, and Materialmen; and Authorizing Banks to Honor and Process Checks and Electronic Transfer Requests Related Thereto; and
• Motion to Authorize Debtors to (A) Continue Performing Under Prepetition Hedging and Trading Arrangements and Honor Obligations Related Thereto, and (B) Enter Into and Perform Under New Postpetition Hedging Arrangements.

The cases have been assigned to the Honorable Kevin J. Carey.  The proposed claims and noticing agent is Prime Clerk LLC.

Carl D. Neff is a partner with the law firm of Fox Rothschild LLP.  You can reach Carl at (302) 622-4272 or at [email protected].