Free With Registration: Did 2009 Change the Bankruptcy Landscape Forever?

Geoffrey T. Raicht, a partner in McDermott Will & Emery, writes: Last year, businesses, financial institutions and the U.S. government called upon and tested the creativity and power of the Bankruptcy Code to help save some of the country’s largest corporations and, perhaps, the overall global economy. History will be the ultimate judge of the measures taken during this economic crisis, but in the interim, bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy practitioners alike must consider the effect and potential use of the offensive and defensive weapons that were used in the past year.