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To resolve a split of circuits, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Tyler v. Hennepin County to decide whether a real estate tax foreclosure violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment

Distressed U.S. companies are increasingly resorting to debt restructurings to avoid expensive bankruptcy proceedings, but many borrowers ultimately end up in court anyway — with their deals amounting

U.S. officials are coordinating urgent talks to rescue First Republic Bank as private-sector efforts led by the bank's advisers have yet to reach a deal, Reuters reported. The Federal Deposit

A defunct talc supplier owned by Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has filed for bankruptcy, adding to the pileup of cosmetic talc businesses entering chapter 11 to weather mass lawsuits alleging that once

David’s Bridal LLC’s chief executive officer is betting the retailer’s reputation with brides will help it find a rescuer in bankruptcy, even in an era of backyard weddings and scaled-down events

Arguing that medical debt “has nothing to do with your ability to pay your bills,” Senate Banking Committee Chair Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) yesterday urged the CEOs of the nation’s three major credit

Coinbase Global Inc. said yesterday that it would fight the Securities and Exchange Commission over the agency’s claim that much of its business is illegal and try to convince a court that Wall Street

Washington regulators plan to release postmortems of their oversight of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank before they abruptly collapsed last month, potentially highlighting missteps by both

SVB Financial Group, the former parent company of failed Silicon Valley Bank, is burning through cash while it struggles to gain access to records it says are necessary to move forward in bankruptcy

U.S. bank regulators are weighing the prospect of downgrading their private assessments of First Republic Bank — a move that may curb the troubled firm’s access to Federal Reserve lending facilities