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February 13, 2025
Chinese Construction Co. Gets OK For $40M Ch. 11 Financing
CCA Construction Inc., a Chinese state-owned construction firm, received approval to fund its Chapter 11 case with a secured, $40 million debtor-in-possession loan from its parent company, overruling an objection from a developer that had won a $1.6 billion judgment against CCA.
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February 13, 2025
J&J's Talc Unit Ch. 11 Trial To Test Releases, Texas Two-Steps
A packed nine-day trial in Texas will determine the fate of Johnson & Johnson's latest talc liability spinoff, and it may test how companies are using the controversial "Texas two-step" bankruptcy maneuver in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision curtailing the use of third-party releases in Chapter 11, experts told Law360.
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February 13, 2025
Chancery OKs Appraisal Suit Fix For Sears Damage Ruling
A Sears Hometown Stores investor that saw its Delaware Court of Chancery share appraisal suit tanked by the company's bankruptcy in 2019 won a $4.06 per share payout ruling Thursday in a Court of Chancery decision focused on fair price and full and incremental damage claims.
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February 13, 2025
Spirit Airlines Ch. 11 Plan Releases Need More Consideration
A New York bankruptcy judge said Thursday the Chapter 11 plan of budget air carrier Spirit Airlines met the conditions for approval, but also told the parties he needed more time to consider the third-party releases proposed in the plan and whether they were consensual.
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February 13, 2025
Nursing Home Co. LaVie Inks Deal With IRS In Ch. 11 Case
LaVie Care Centers, an operator of skilled nursing facilities, received a Georgia bankruptcy judge's blessing on Thursday to settle a dispute with the IRS that represented a "final hurdle" in the company's Chapter 11 case, after the agency agreed to significantly trim its claims against the debtor.
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February 13, 2025
Sandy Hook Families Seek To Enforce Alex Jones Judgment
Infowars founder Alex Jones should be forced to pay the judgment that Sandy Hook families won in their long-running defamation case, even though he lodged a "baseless" appeal with the Connecticut Supreme Court in an effort to create further delays, the plaintiffs said.
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February 13, 2025
Orrick Hires Former Head Of A&O's Restructuring Practice
The former head of Allen & Overy's U.S. restructuring practice prior to A&O's transatlantic merger with Shearman & Sterling has joined Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in New York.
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February 12, 2025
Judge OKs Prospect Medical To Sell Two RI Hospitals
A Texas bankruptcy judge has approved bankrupt hospital operator Prospect Medical's request to sell its two Rhode Island hospitals to the nonprofit organization Centurion Foundation Inc. for $160 million, following the resolution of objections raised by the Rhode Island Attorney General's Office and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
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February 12, 2025
Willkie DQ'd Out Of Franchise Group Ch. 11
A Delaware bankruptcy judge Wednesday denied retail chain operator Franchise Group Inc.'s request to retain Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in its Chapter 11, saying issues stemming from a transaction it worked on before the bankruptcy are too central to the company's reorganization plans.
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February 12, 2025
PE Watchdog Sounds Bankruptcy Alarm, Faces Doubts
Private equity firms played a disproportionate role in large corporate bankruptcy filings last year, a nonprofit watchdog said in a report Wednesday, warning the trend may continue in a deregulated environment, though not everyone is convinced of the alarm.
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February 12, 2025
Spirit Opts For Ch. 11 Plan After Latest Frontier Bid
Bankrupt budget air carrier Spirit Airlines said it will pursue confirmation of its Chapter 11 debt swap plan at a hearing scheduled for Thursday, after it and competitor Frontier Group could not come to terms on a combination of the two companies.
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February 12, 2025
Conn. Opposes Bankrupt Prospect Medical's 'Plunder'
Prospect Medical Holdings Inc. must be held accountable for harm that the hospital operator caused in Connecticut, but first, its three facilities in the state need to quickly transition to new ownership, the offices of the attorney general and the governor told a Dallas bankruptcy judge.
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February 12, 2025
Joann To Close Over 500 US Stores In Second Ch. 11
Joann Inc., a fabrics and crafts retailer that reentered bankruptcy in January, asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge Wednesday for permission to close more than 500 underperforming stores throughout the country that the company said potential buyers of the business aren't interested in taking on.
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February 12, 2025
Purdue Asks For Another Month To Work On Ch. 11 Deal
Purdue Pharma is asking a New York bankruptcy judge to extend the litigation shield for its former owners for another month, saying while it hopes to have a plan in writing by next week it still needs the breathing room to get the plan on file.
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February 12, 2025
Yellow Corp. Seeks OK For $15M Real Estate Sale
An investment banking advisory firm for bankrupt trucking company Yellow Corp. asked a Delaware bankruptcy court to approve three asset purchase agreements for properties owned by the trucking company that are worth $15.1 million.
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February 12, 2025
Skarzynski Marick Adds Duane Morris Bankruptcy Team in LA
Insurance coverage litigation boutique Skarzynski Marick & Black LLP is expanding its services, announcing Wednesday it is bringing over a team of Duane Morris LLP bankruptcy experts in its Los Angeles office.
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February 12, 2025
Blank Rome Adds 2 Ex-Otterbourg Finance Pros In NY
Blank Rome LLP has added the former chair of Otterbourg PC's banking and finance department and a fellow asset-based lending and corporate transactions specialist previously with that firm as partners in its New York office, the firm has announced.
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February 11, 2025
Celsius Crypto Spinoff Stockholders Sue For Board Docs
Stockholders of Ionic Digital Inc., a company formed to hold and operate digital mining assets of bankrupt Celsius Network LLC, have sued in Delaware's Court of Chancery for access to the company's stockholder lists in order to run a competing slate of directors.
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February 11, 2025
Guo Trustee Wants More Time For 'Mind-Boggling' Clawbacks
The Chapter 11 trustee overseeing convicted fraudster Miles Guo's bankruptcy estate on Tuesday testified that the complex task of unraveling millions in cash transfers without the Chinese exile's cooperation warrants a third blanket order allowing avoidance actions beyond typical deadlines.
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February 11, 2025
3rd-Party Releases OK'd In Rochester Diocese's Ch. 11 Plan
A New York bankruptcy judge Tuesday delayed approval of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester's Chapter 11 plan disclosure for a month to review last-minute changes, but he said he had made up his mind that third-party liability releases in the plan are acceptable.
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February 11, 2025
Wheel-Maker Accuride Gets Ch. 11 Reorg Plan Confirmed
Bankrupt wheel-maker Accuride Corp. received approval Tuesday from a Delaware bankruptcy judge for its Chapter 11 reorganization plan after resolving outstanding objections via late-night negotiations prior to a confirmation hearing.
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February 11, 2025
Catching Up With New Bankruptcy Case Action
Zips Car Wash filed for Chapter 11 in Texas with $654 million in debt, struggling with liquidity from competition and rising interest rates. Omega Therapeutics filed for bankruptcy with $140 million in debt and a restructuring plan with its shareholders. White Forest Resources filed for Chapter 11 due to production and shipping issues and plans to sell one of its two mines in West Virginia.
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February 11, 2025
True Value Gets OK For Opt-Out Releases In Ch. 11 Plan
A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved True Value Co.'s request to solicit votes on a Chapter 11 plan containing third-party releases that rely in part on an opt-out mechanism, a feature that the U.S. Trustee's Office said violated the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Purdue Pharma LP last summer.
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February 11, 2025
Procurement Biz Blocks Disclosure In Byju's $533M Debt Fight
A London judge on Tuesday ruled it would be oppressive to force a U.K. procurement company to provide evidence related to an allegedly fraudulent $533 million transaction for Delaware court proceedings involving the bankrupt U.S. subsidiary of Indian educational tech firm Byju's.
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February 10, 2025
FTX Having Trouble Serving Binance With Ch. 11 Lawsuit
The estate of fallen cryptocurrency exchange FTX told a Delaware bankruptcy judge late Friday that its attorneys haven't yet been able to serve Binance and its former CEO Changpeng Zhao a lawsuit seeking to recover nearly $1.8 billion that FTX is accused of illegally transferring prior to its collapse two years ago.
Expert Analysis
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SVB Bankruptcy Case Raises Asset Control Questions
The initial disputes in Silicon Valley Bank's bankruptcy case between the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the debtor over tax refunds and deposits are likely to signal the rekindling of old battles for limited assets last fought during the Great Recession, say Jeffrey Rothleder and Maura McIntyre at Squire Patton.