Could your chapter 11 debtor survive if its quarterly fees increased by 833%?
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The safe harbor provision in 11 U.S.C. § 546(e) provides, in relevant part, that a trustee may not avoid a transfer “made by or to (or for the benefit of) a ... financial institution ...
FirstEnergy[1] sells electricity to customers in six states. It commenced a chapter 11 bankruptcy case in May 2018 in which it sought to reject long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) entered into several years prior to bankruptcy.
The Supreme Court recently clarified that the finality of a bankruptcy court order is determined by evaluating whether the order unreservedly adjudicates a discrete proceeding or is part of a larger process. In Ritzen Group Inc. v.
In an opinion issued in December 2019, the Third Circuit found that the bankruptcy court below had constitutional authority to confirm a plan containing compelled third-party releases because — on the “specific, exceptional facts of [the Millennium Lab] case” — those releases were “integral to the restructuring of the debtor/creditor relationship.”
Bankruptcy professionals have become quite accustomed to the increasingly common phenomenon of a troubled company filing a chapter 11 case and either simultaneousl
Hon. Jack B. Schmetterer of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued a memorandum opinion dismissing a debtor’s lawsuit to equitably subordinate a secured lender’s claim. In re American Consolidated Transportation Cos. Inc., Adv. No. 10-00154, slip op. (Bankr. N.D. Ill. July 13, 2010).
Does a bankruptcy court have the power to enter a final order in a fraudulent-transfer action where the defendant has not filed a proof of claim, or is the bankruptcy court limited to submitting proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law to the district court for de novo review and entry of judgment? On March 11, 2019, in Paragon Litigation Trust v. Nobel Corp., et al.
In a “code-driven” discipline such as bankruptcy, third-party releases are a rare breed. As a form of equitable relief available to certain nondebtors in certain court-decreed circumstances in certain circuits, they are shrouded in a level of uncertainty seldom seen elsewhere. A recent holding from In re FirstEnergy Solutions Corp.
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