Bankrupt drug research and development company Inotiv Inc. has tapped a team of lawyers from Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP and Ropes & Gray LLP to see it through a Chapter 11 it began with nearly $489 million in debt and support from most of its creditors for a reorganization plan.
Yellow Corp. will undergo a status conference regarding pension plan settlements, Warrior Technologies will vie for final approval of its bankruptcy financing, and plastic company Trinseo PLC will also seek debtor-in-possession financing approval.
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling Thursday that rejected the Fifth Circuit's "overly rigid" judicial estoppel rule gives lower courts more latitude to decide whether a debtor's failure to disclose a claim in bankruptcy was a mistake, but it leaves open numerous questions about the duties of consumer debtors, experts told Law360.