On June 15, 2010, significant amendments to Bankruptcy Rule 2019, which governs the disclosure of claims and interests held by members of certain representative entities and the parties t...
In a much anticipated decision, on March 22, 2010, a split panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed a District Court decision holding that a debtor may b...
In an opinion issued on January 20, 2010 in the chapter 11 case of Premier International Holdings, Inc.,1 an affiliate of theme park owner and operator Six Flags, Inc., Judge Christopher ...
Marshall S. Huebner, who co-heads Davis Polk’s Insolvency and Restructuring Group and served as lead counsel in several airline restructurings, testified by invitation before Congress o...
On November 24, 2009, Judge James M. Peck of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York issued a significant decision [1] in the ION Media Networks, Inc. ban...
In two recent decisions, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania held that a debtor may prohibit secured credi...
The legislative season for financial regulatory reform is now in full swing. In the last two weeks, the leadership of the House Financial Services Committee and Treasury have jointly prop...
On October 13, in the chapter 11 cases of homebuilder TOUSA, Inc. and its subsidiaries, Judge John K. Olson of the United States Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of Florida avoid...
While Chrysler and GM have made headlines for months, judges in other cases have been handing down opinions of significant import for secured and unsecured creditors. The three described ...
In a recent bench ruling issued in the Lehman Brothers Chapter 11 proceedings in the Southern District of New York, Bankruptcy Judge James M. Peck held that (i) non-debtor counterparties ...
