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Meet The Attorneys In KidKraft's Chapter 11
Dallas-based toymaker KidKraft Inc. filed for Chapter 11 protection in Texas on May 10, and is represented by a team from Vinson & Elkins LLP.
Celsius Data Leak Highlights Privacy Puzzle In Crypto Ch. 11s
A recent phishing attack that exposed personal information of 104,000 creditors in Celsius Network's Chapter 11 case has thrown fresh light on a vexing question for bankruptcy courts across the country: how to balance cryptocurrency companies' insistence on anonymity with bankruptcy's principle of transparency.
5 Retail Industry Questions For A Restructuring Expert
Major headwinds have been hitting the retail industry for some time and have already blown major brand names like Express Inc., Joann Inc. and Sam Ash Music Corp. into Chapter 11.
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A bankrupt Johnson & Johnson unit's libel claims over a scientific article linking talcum powder to mesothelioma intrigued a New Jersey federal judge during an oral argument on Thursday, prompting her to muse ... (more story)
The U.S. Supreme Court may have declined to hear a challenge to non-debtor litigation stays in mass tort bankruptcies this week in the Chapter 11 case of Georgia-Pacific's asbestos spinoff, but it is still sla... (more story)
SVB Financial Group, the former parent company of Silicon Valley Bank, told a New York bankruptcy judge Thursday that it had resolved outstanding objections to its Chapter 11 plan disclosure statement and was ... (more story)
After being sidelined for more than a decade, a plan for expanding U.S. Department of Labor rules for terminating retirement plans abandoned by employers are moving forward again, the agency reported Thursday,... (more story)
The bankrupt parent of Bally Sports-branded regional sports networks touted the extension of a carriage contract with DirecTV Wednesday in Texas bankruptcy court, at the same time that the parent company's par... (more story)
Major news media companies asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to ensure that an examiner's report into crypto giant FTX's downfall is not filed under seal, arguing that a proposed redaction process runs counter... (more story)
Discount retail chain 99 Cents Only received approval Wednesday from a Delaware bankruptcy judge for a $14.6 million stalking-horse bid for 11 of its properties in Texas from Ollie's Bargain Outlet Inc., anoth... (more story)
A New York bankruptcy judge Wednesday sent the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre and clergy sex abuse claimants back into mediation rather than grant the diocese's request to dismiss the case after th... (more story)
A former top FTX official has asked a Manhattan federal judge for a lenient 18-month sentence, saying he was not part of company co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried's inner circle and was as shocked as everyone else ... (more story)
Sex abuse claimants removed from a Catholic archdiocese's bankruptcy unsecured creditors committee don't have grounds for an appeal because they couldn't show the removal was a sanction on them that cost the c... (more story)
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Two Georgia poll workers who won a $148 million judgment in a defamation suit against Rudy Giuliani told a New York bankruptcy judge Thursday they were close to an agreement with the former Donald Trump lawyer... (more story)
Bankrupt teen retailer rue21 has asked a Delaware bankruptcy court for approval to reject its leases at 51 store locations where going-out-of-business sales have already wrapped up or aren't planned, saying th... (more story)
Artificial intelligence-powered employee recruitment venture Joonko told a Delaware bankruptcy court Thursday it hopes to use Chapter 11 to resolve the legal mess left by its ex-CEO's fraud by this fall.
Colombian consumer lending giant Credivalores - Crediservicios filed for bankruptcy in New York on Thursday, with a prepackaged Chapter 11 plan to cut $55 million from its balance sheet and emerge from bankruptcy next month.
Oil and gas fracking services provider Nitro Fluids LLC filed for Chapter 11 protection in a Texas bankruptcy court with more than $50 million in debt, months after a jury found it had infringed another company's patents.
An attorney representing a small group of creditors of failed California debt relief law firm Litigation Practice Group raised concerns at a hearing Wednesday that once the bankruptcy estate pays professional ... (more story)
AI-powered employee recruitment venture Joonko Diversity Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 protection in a Delaware bankruptcy court, saying its business had rested almost entirely on fraudulent claims made by its ex-CEO.
The parent company of Foxtrot Market and Dom's Kitchen & Market filed for Chapter 7 in Delaware, less than a month after the grocery chain announced it would be closing its 35 stores in Illinois, Texas and the... (more story)
Immediation, an Australia-based legal technology company that reached insolvency at the end of 2023, is back in business.
A cryptocurrency firm that "recklessly" persuaded customers to put money into investment plans has been wound up after the government's insolvency agency found that the company had given false assurances and t... (more story)