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The U.S. Trustee's Office and Texas law firm Jackson Walker LLP are heading for a fight next week about whether the bankruptcy watchdog has standing to claw back attorney fees after a scandal touched some of the firm's cases — but it's a battle that both sides no longer want.
Former Spirit employees' unions opposed the sale of the airline's business data to Google for AI training. Malibu mansion builders sought approval to sell two properties for $110 million. Danskammer Energy opposed an NYISO bid to set off funds against its alleged debt. The owner of a defunct boarding school in Pennsylvania faced a bid to dismiss its second Chapter 11 case.
Brazilian-Mexican petrochemical company Braskem Idesa SAPI has tapped a team of attorneys from Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP to guide its pre-negotiated Chapter 11 plan to trade debt for equity.
A New Jersey bankruptcy judge has ruled that antitrust claims against pharmaceutical companies belong to drug distributor McKesson Corp., not the trustee overseeing Rite Aid's Chapter 11 distributions.
The former acting president of a Genesis Healthcare subsidiary denied using company documents to create a competitor during a hearing Thursday on Genesis' motion for a preliminary injunction against the compet... (more story)
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP announced that it has tapped a former Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP lawyer to chair its newly formalized liability management and strategic credit practice.
The founders of production company Pulse Films, now owned by Vice Media, have failed to force former Vice executives to disclose documents about the media giant's financial troubles ahead of a potential $20 mi... (more story)
A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Thursday sent the official overseeing the Boy Scouts of America's settlement trust and a clutch of insurers into mediation to hash out a conflict over escrowed funds tied to a $1... (more story)
Invesco-managed funds reached a confidential settlement, ending appeals of a Texas bankruptcy judge's decision that Serta Simmons lenders excluded from a debt restructuring deal are owed $400 million.
A Texas bankruptcy judge on Thursday signed off on specialty materials maker Alkegen's plan to cut $3.1 billion in debt and emerge from its Chapter 11 case with fresh funds to support its turnaround, approving... (more story)
The First Circuit revived hospital Instituto Medico Del Norte's Chapter 11 lawsuit against a lender, remanding the case after it "struggled to make sense" of a Puerto Rico bankruptcy judge's decision to dismis... (more story)
O'Melveny & Myers LLP has hired a corporate restructuring lawyer from Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP as a partner in its bankruptcy and restructuring practice in New York.
The Seventh Circuit said Wednesday that it will wait to make its arbitration rejection official so a Chicago trading firm can ask the U.S. Supreme Court to determine whether it was correctly ordered to litigat... (more story)
Electric motor manufacturer Reuland Electric Co. and its parent company initiated a bankruptcy Thursday, asserting that one lender relationship had soured and placed the company's future in peril.
The bankrupt company connected to the former Hudson Hotel in New York asked a Delaware bankruptcy court to approve its hiring of a development manager for its redevelopment project.
The Archdiocese of San Francisco asked a California bankruptcy judge Thursday to approve its Chapter 11 plan disclosure statement and the form of ballots to be sent to voting creditors as the organization move... (more story)
A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Thursday grilled conflicts counsel for bankrupt coal plant Omnis Pleasants about whether the debtor's lead counsel Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP should be disqualified over ... (more story)
The Chapter 7 trustee in the bankruptcy of solar power company iSun Inc. accused the former CEO and Chief Financial Officer of sinking the company into insolvency through self-dealing and hidden debt transacti... (more story)
A New Jersey state judge has struck the expert reports in a legal malpractice suit against Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, barring the experts from testifying unless the Sept. 14 trial over a real estate de... (more story)
Park Place Partners Development LLC, a real estate developer that formerly proposed building an Islamic community center near the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan, filed for Chapter 11 protection Tue... (more story)
A former executive and two contractors have forced artificial intelligence-powered health technology provider Survey Health into a Chapter 7 proceeding in Delaware bankruptcy court, as the company contends wit... (more story)
A New York bankruptcy judge has banned two individuals from bankruptcy court for five years after finding that they serially filed involuntary Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 petitions against numerous people and ent... (more story)
Jackson Walker's recently filed $15 million settlement with the U.S. Trustee is effectively a contract between one firm and the government that will nevertheless serve as a template of conflict disclosure prac... (more story)
Alexander Bein, Shelby Guilbert and Nicholas Hill
A North Carolina federal court’s recent ruling that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., as receiver for the colla... (more story)
Robert Charbonneau
While a recently passed Senate bill would expand the pool of businesses eligible to use the streamlined Subchapter... (more story)
Sharon Katz-Pearlman
A lifetime of learning and performing ballet taught me that success — whether in dance or practicing law — comes o... (more story)