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New Jersey Law Journal

How the SBRA Can Help Small Businesses Recover from the COVID-19 Crisis

The Small Business Reorganization Act adds Subchapter V to Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, and creates a more efficient and less costly process for small businesses to reorganize.
9 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

COVID-19: A Massive Impediment to Bankruptcy Relief

With uncertainty as to when the pandemic will ease, Bankruptcy Courts do not seem to be a panacea leading to successful reorganizations or orderly liquidations for troubled companies.
9 minute read

The Recorder

Eligibility for PPP Loans: Considerations for Investors With Minority Investments in Portfolio Companies

Institutional investors should start actively considering what steps, if any, they will be willing to take in order to allow a portfolio company to qualify for the PPP funding.
8 minute read

Daily Business Review

New Ruling Ratified a Far-Reaching Definition of 'Debt Collector' Under the FDCPA

This ruling is significant for not only debt purchasers, but also for secured lenders that take over accounts receivable from a defaulting borrower and then outsource the collection efforts.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Hospitality Industry and Covid 19: Where Do We Go From Here?

In their Hospitality Law column, Todd Soloway and Bryan Mohler discuss the challenges owners, operators, management companies and franchisors must confront in the face (and wake) of the current pandemic.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

The Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019 Makes a Timely Arrival

In a moment of true prescience in light of current circumstances, last year Congress amended the U.S. Bankruptcy Code by enacting the Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019 (SBRA). The SBRA is the federal government's latest effort to make bankruptcy reorganization a more attractive option for small businesses, something particularly important given the potential crippling economic effects of the current pandemic. Barbara M. Goodstein discusses the Act in this edition of her Secured Transactions column.
8 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Modell's Bankruptcy Pause 'Extraordinary Relief Under Extraordinary Circumstances'

The proceedings provide a glimpse of how COVID-19 has further upended the already reeling brick-and-mortar retail industry.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

Bankruptcy in the Age of COVID-19: Evaluate Financial Distress

With new realities, bankruptcy practitioner Frank Eaton says the legal system is up to the task of responding to the most challenging economic times faced by the United States in several generations.
9 minute read

The American Lawyer

Pierce Bainbridge Leader John Pierce Is On Leave Amid Financing Questions

John Pierce, the firm's founder and public face, is on a leave of absence while Tom Warren is now the firm's acting managing partner, according to a spokeswoman.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Seventh Circuit Holds Interim DIP Financing Order Is Enforceable and Prior to Reclamation Claims Under §546(c)

In her Distress Mergers and Acquisitions column, Corinne Ball discusses a recent decision in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that the lien of a debtor-in-possession lender in a Chapter 11 proceeding has priority over valid reclamation claims held by a trade supplier.
13 minute read

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