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Meet The Attys In Packaging Co. Pretium's Prepack Ch. 11
Pretium Packaging, a private equity-backed maker of rigid plastic containers, has hired attorneys from Cole Schotz PC and Kirkland & Ellis LLP to steer it through a prepackaged bankruptcy it began after struggling to stabilize its business in the face of more than $1 billion in debt.
Food52 Can Sell Assets, Saks Can Close 9 Stores
A Delaware bankruptcy judge approved an agreement on the sale of some of e-commerce company Food52 Inc.'s assets to America's Test Kitchen, a Texas judge allowed Saks Global to start closing nine stores, and a New Jersey judge put the retail operator of outdoor clothing brand Eddie Bauer on track for a March auction.
What's Happening In Bankruptcy Court This Coming Week
Bankruptcy judges this week are set to consider confirmation of wind-down plans from solar energy developer Pine Gate Renewables and subprime lender PrimaLend Capital Partners LP, while also mulling approval for billions of dollars in Chapter 11 financing to support Saks Global.
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CCA Construction Inc., a subsidiary of a Chinese state-owned firm, has emerged from Chapter 11, months after a New Jersey bankruptcy judge agreed to approve its settlement with a Bahamian resort developer whos... (more story)
A Texas bankruptcy judge warned an Arizona man that he may have been improperly acting as an attorney for dozens of individuals who filed nearly identical pro se motions in the Chapter 7 case of subprime auto ... (more story)
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden, New Jersey, and its insurers on Tuesday agreed to pay another $180 million into a trust for the benefit of survivors of clergy sexual abuse, reaching a deal with a tort cl... (more story)
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland and representatives for sexual abuse claimants told a California bankruptcy judge on Tuesday they will be filing competing versions of a plan to settle hundreds of abuse c... (more story)
Unsecured noteholders for bankrupt label-maker Multi-Color Corp. are suing Barclays Bank PLC as Multi-Color's collateral agent, seeking a declaration that the bank holds liens only on some assets and not "subs... (more story)
Bankrupt luxury retailer Saks Global told a Texas court that two leased store locations can't be repossessed by landlord Simon Property Group because the leases were not properly terminated before the Chapter ... (more story)
Connell Foley LLP announced Tuesday it is launching a new bankruptcy and restructuring practice group and a new office in Wilmington, Delaware, with the addition of five partners from FBT Gibbons LLP.
A New Jersey state court lacks standing to block an appellate panel's removal of Beasley Allen from representing hundreds of women with ovarian cancer pursuing claims against Johnson & Johnson over talcum powd... (more story)
Tucker Arensberg PC has expanded its transactional resources in Pittsburgh with the recent addition of an attorney who moved to the firm to expand his practice advising clients on bankruptcy and solvency matte... (more story)
A U.S. Trustee has objected to an office-focused real estate investment trust's proposed Ch. 11 reorganization plan in a Texas bankruptcy court, arguing that the plan wrongfully wants to release claims related... (more story)
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Investors have urged a Washington federal judge not to toss their suit accusing Columbia Bank of keeping a real estate investment firm's $230 million Ponzi scheme afloat by maintaining the enterprise's account... (more story)
Organic supermarket chain Earth Fare and its post-bankruptcy owner told North Carolina's top court on Tuesday that its founder can't recover damages for work he was salaried to do while revitalizing the brand,... (more story)
The Third Circuit on Tuesday upheld a bankruptcy court's order prohibiting the Chester Water Authority from probing the bankrupt Pennsylvania city's attempts to dissolve the water authority and use its assets in Chapter 9.
Lehotsky Keller Cohn LLP is asking a Texas bankruptcy judge to sanction members of the board of bankrupt cryptocurrency miner Rhodium Encore LLC and their attorneys, saying they used false claims of misconduct... (more story)
The U.S. Trustee's Office has urged a Delaware bankruptcy judge to reject parts of recreational-vehicle fridge distributor Norcold's Chapter 11 liquidation plan, calling its third-party releases nonconsensual ... (more story)
A Georgia federal judge has rejected a family's attempts to force an insurer to pay for a $2 million personal injury judgment they secured against a nursing home, ruling the family unambiguously gave up their ... (more story)
A 2-1 split panel of the Sixth Circuit affirmed two lower court rulings from Michigan federal judges denying a Chapter 13 debtor's motion to dismiss his bankruptcy case because the request came 84 minutes afte... (more story)
A Washington, D.C., lawyer is urging the Second Circuit to order the dismissal of sanctions levied against him for making claims of document tampering in a Delaware bankruptcy case, saying he has proof that hi... (more story)
Prosperity Bank urged a Texas bankruptcy judge to reject reorganized debtor Scanrock Oil & Gas' request for an order interpreting Scanrock's Chapter 11 plan, saying the debtor was improperly seeking to sell as... (more story)
Avenger Flight Group can access $8 million in new money debtor-in-possession funds, a Delaware bankruptcy judge ruled Friday, as the flight simulator operator charts a course to hold a going concern sale in Chapter 11.