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February 11, 2025

Fancy drafting by ‘brilliant financiers and lawyers,’ the judge said, didn’t validate an uptier transaction when the ‘effect’ was to release collateral without a two-thirds vote.

January 17, 2025

A district court in New Jersey says that a discretionary fee award is neither a bonus nor an enhancement.

January 14, 2025

Fifth Circuit didn’t permit plan proponents to structure a chapter 11 plan so that an appeal would be equitably moot.

January 13, 2025

The Fifth Circuit declines to adopt a securities industry guidebook for what’s a permissible financing.

September 26, 2024

Judge Dale Somers adopted a ‘liberal’ construction of Section 1107(b) to retain a professional person who had been an officer of the debtor.

August 31, 2023

The RICO suit by Jay Alix Against McKinsey mostly survived a motion to dismiss.

September 22, 2022

The length and the effects of the pandemic were capable of being ‘anticipated’ and therefore provide no reason for modifying a fixed fee under Section 328(a).

September 01, 2022

The Third Circuit opinion by Thomas Ambro explained that the ‘close nexus’ test does not apply when a post-conformation dispute is ‘core’ or entails enforcing a court order.

April 29, 2022

Circuit refuses to make an exception for trustees regarding the judge-made doctrine of in pari delicto.

January 24, 2022

The U.S. Trustee is not the better or the only party to uphold the integrity of the bankruptcy court, the Second Circuit holds.