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News and information on bankruptcy and bankruptcy law
By Tony Sabine | April 23, 2024
The downturn in the Chinese property sector is creating new prospects in Hong Kong, both for firms looking to cash in on the need for professionals with expertise in restructuring and insolvency and for a city looking to cement its status as a legal hub.
5 minute read
By Dario Sabaghi | April 18, 2024
Some major firms are restructuring their practices ahead of the new bankruptcy law entering into effect.
6 minute read
By Kasvi Sehgal | April 17, 2024
The news comes as the UK apparel company ramps up efforts to avoid an insolvency process.
2 minute read
By Kasvi Sehgal | April 5, 2024
The restructuring specialist discusses his move from one of the world's biggest investment companies and his plans at Paul Hastings' London office.
7 minute read
By Habiba Cullen-Jafar | March 21, 2024
Several UK retail brands have appointed administrators this year, with McDermott also securing a role.
3 minute read
By Christopher Niesche | March 15, 2024
Maria O'Brien is the latest insolvency partner to switch firms in the country.
2 minute read
By Kasvi Sehgal | February 15, 2024
The transactions come as statistics on Thursday showed the UK entered a recession towards the end of 2023.
3 minute read
By Rick Mitchell | February 6, 2024
Many factors, including heavy debt loads and tight financing markets, are making troubled companies prime M&A targets, either for 'a change of control or for major carve-outs,' one lawyer said.
7 minute read
By Jessica Seah | January 30, 2024
Outside of China's property crisis, activity in the restructuring realm has been muted in Asia. But now that Sidley Austin has sewn up the market on China real estate, how will rival firms shape up?
6 minute read
By Jessica Seah | January 29, 2024
In court, Evergrande was represented by Des Veoux Chambers silk, Jose-Antonio Maurellet, SC. Advising on its restructuring is Sidley Austin.
4 minute read
By Jimmy Hoover | June 6, 2024
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, writing for the court, stated that an insurer is a "party in interest" that can object when it "may be directly and adversely affected by the reorganization plan."
2 minute read
By Amanda Bronstad | June 4, 2024
The Oregon jury's verdict, which included $200 million in punitive damages, followed a month of trial in a case brought by Kyung Lee, diagnosed with mesothelioma after decades of being exposed to Johnson & Johnson's baby powder.
6 minute read
By Dan Roe | June 3, 2024
Sponsors and lenders are rapidly losing patience with foundering, overleveraged companies.
6 minute read
By Andrew C. Kassner and Joseph N. Argentina Jr. | June 3, 2024
In 530 Donelson, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Tennessee recently considered whether orders entered by a Tennessee state court appointing and empowering a receiver deprived the limited liability company's owners of authority to file a bankruptcy case for the company.
10 minute read
By Patrick Smith | June 3, 2024
The group includes Jennifer Daly, the co-head of King & Spalding's global finance and restructuring practice at the time of her departure.
4 minute read
By Amanda Bronstad | May 31, 2024
On Thursday, Beasley Allen and the plaintiffs' steering committee in the talc multidistrict litigation filed motions to quash subpoenas sought by Johnson & Johnson in the talc litigation.
6 minute read
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | May 30, 2024
Jackson Walker alleges in court filings that former U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David Jones directed the firm to use a disclosure statement for representation requests that the firm considered "insufficient, adequate, and misleading" to describe his relationship with a partner at the firm.
4 minute read
By Ross Todd | May 29, 2024
Sean O'Neal, Tom Kessler, and Jane VanLare of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton helped Genesis win approval for the settlement of the AG's Martin Act claims and its plan of reorganization, where dollar creditors are estimated to receive 100% of their claims and cryptocurrency creditors have estimated average recoveries of 77% on an in-kind basis.
5 minute read
By Ross Todd | May 24, 2024
Sean O'Neal, Tom Kessler, and Jane VanLare of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton helped Genesis win approval for the settlement of the AG's Martin Act claims and its plan of reorganization, where dollar creditors are estimated to receive 100% of their claims and cryptocurrency creditors have estimated average recoveries of 77% on an in-kind basis.
5 minute read
By Charles Toutant | May 23, 2024
Under the federal version of WARN, an employer must give workers a written notice 60 days before a mass layoff or plant closing. New Jersey's version of WARN, which was updated in 2023, now requires 90 days of notice of a plant closing or mass layoff.
4 minute read
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