• In re: Energy Future Holdings Corp.

    Publication Date: 2019-07-03
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Energy | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: GianClaudio Finizio and Neil B. Glassman, Bayard P.A., Wilmington, DE; Jeremy C. Hollembeak, Michael S. Kim, Benjamin J. Sauter and Andrew D. Wang, Kobre & Kim, New York, NY for Delaware Trust Co. Ashley R. Altschuler and R. Craig Martin, DLA Piper, Wilmington, DE
    for defendant: Thomas J. Curtin, Ellen M. Halstead, Howard R. Hawkins, Jr., Michele Maman and Mark C. Ellenberg, Cadwalader Wicker-sham & Taft, New York, NY and Washington, DC; Scott B. Czerwonka, Wilks Lukoff & Bracegirdle, Wilmington, DE for Mor-gan Stanley Capital Group Inc. George A. Davis, Latham & Watkins, New York, NY; Michael D. DeBaecke, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE; Peter M. Friedman, Jonathan Rosenberg and Daniel S. Shamah, O'Melveny & Myers, Washington, DC and New York, NY; Thomas R. Hooper and Mark D. Kotwick, Seward & Kissel, New York, NY; Joseph H. Huston, Jr., Stevens & Lee, Wilmington, DE for Wilmington Trust N.A. Mark E. Felger and Simon Fraser, Cozen O'Connor, Wilmington, DE; Hu-mayun Khalid, Thomas J. Moloney and Sean A. O'Neal, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, New York, NY for J. Aron & Co. Bradley R. Aronstam and Nicholas D. Mozal, Ross Aronstam & Moritz, Wilmington, DE , Adam B. Banks, Weil Gotshal & Manges, New York, NY for Titan Investment Holdings LP.

    Case Number: D68617

    Following approval of a bankruptcy plan and corporate restructuring, payments and distributions to creditors were no longer considered collateral or proceeds under the waterfall provision of an intercreditor agreement.

  • In re: Vantage Drilling Int'l

    Publication Date: 2019-07-03
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Mining and Resources
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: D68619

    Parties in this bankruptcy matter lacked standing to object to debtor's plan of reorganization.

  • In re: Managed Storage Int'l, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-05-01
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Distribution and Wholesale | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Walrath
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. Grant Dick, IV and Robert W. Pedigo, Cooch and Taylor, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Dennis A. Meloro, Greenberg Traurig LLP, Wilmington, DE, Annapoorni R. Sankaran, Holland & Knight LLP, Houston, TX for defendant.

    Case Number: D68544

    Stipulation between debtor and secured creditor required dismissal of bankruptcy trustee's avoidance action where transfers were made in ordinary course of business and parties would likely have no difficulty in collection at time of stipulation.

  • In re: SRC Liquidation LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-04-24
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Accounting
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Chagares
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: D68535

    Breach of fiduciary duty against company controllers dismissed with prejudice where complainant could not establish that managers acted in bad faith in pursuing and consummating merger that allegedly led to debtor's financial difficulties.

  • In re Maxus Energy Corp.

    Publication Date: 2019-03-20
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy | Environmental Law
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Sontchi
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Dehney, Curtis S. Miller and Daniel B. Butz, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Robert Lemons, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, NY; Edward Soto, Miami, FL for Repsol defendants.
    for defendant: Brian E. Farnan and Michael J. Farnan, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; J. Christopher Shore,White & Case LLP, New York, NY for liquidating trustee.

    Case Number: D68497

    Bankruptcy court declined to abstain because neither mandatory abstention nor the Rooker-Feldman doctrine applied to the facts, and permissive abstention would interfere with the creditors' recovery.

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  • In re: Titus

    Publication Date: 2019-03-06
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Ambro
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Douglas A. Campbell and Kathryn L. Harrison, Campbell & Levine, Pittsburgh, PA for appellant.
    for defendant: Neal H. Levin, Freeborn & Peters, Chicago, IL for appellee.

    Case Number: D68479

    Bankruptcy court did not err in utilizing non-necessities approach to determine fraudulent transfer liability involving an entireties account, but moving forward bankruptcy courts should utilize a pro rata approach to calculate liability.

  • In re La Paloma Generating Co.

    Publication Date: 2019-01-16
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Energy
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Sontchi
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark D. Collins and Jason M Madron, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; M. Natasha Labovitz, Craig A. Bruens, Nick S. Kaluk, III and Elie J. Worenklein, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, NY for debtors.
    for defendant: Jeffrey M. Schlerf and L. John Bird, Fox Rothschild LLP, Wilmington, DE; Thomas E. Lauria, White & Case LLP, Miami, FL; Roberto Kampfner, White & Case LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Douglas P. Baumstein, J. Christopher Shore and Andrew Zatz, White & Case LLP, New York, NY for LNV Corp. Jody C. Baril-lare, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Wilmington, DE; Glenn E. Siegel, Joshua Dorchak and Rachel Jaffe Mauceri, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, New York, NY for the ad hoc group of second lien creditors.

    Case Number: D68427

    The bankruptcy court granted the motion of a first-lien lender to enforce an intercreditor agreement which pro-vided that its lien was to be satisfied in full, prior to any payment for the group of second-lien lenders.

  • In re Centaur, LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-01-16
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy | Deals and Transactions
    Industry: Consulting | Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Carey
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: D68426

    Litigation trustee was entitled to summary judgment in this fraudulent transfer matter, because the debtor was insolvent at the time of the transaction and no exchange or reasonably equivalent value occurred.

  • Yellow Pages Photos, Inc. v. Dex Media, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2018-12-19
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy | Copyrights
    Industry: Advertising | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: D68396

    The bankruptcy court properly dismissed counterclaims based on claim preclusion, judicial estoppel and col-lateral estoppel, and its fee award was objectively reasonable.

  • In re: Pursuit Capital Mgmt., LLC

    Publication Date: 2018-11-14
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Silverstein
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: D68352

    Adversary proceeding not dismissed on jurisdictional grounds where bankruptcy trustee could assign debtor's legal claims to creditors, since those creditors would ultimately benefit from a distribution of any recovery on those claims.