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Seattle Lobbying Firm Strategies 360 Files for Bankruptcy Amid Legal Feud

A prominent Pacific Northwest lobbying and public affairs firm has filed for chapter 11 protection amid a bitter legal dispute between estranged co-owners, the Seattle Times reported. Seattle-based

Bankrupt Bed Bath & Beyond Seeks $300 Million from MSC Line for Pandemic Shipping Charges

The bankruptcy estate of Bed Bath & Beyond has filed the largest-ever lawsuit with the Federal Maritime Commission, seeking around $300 million from Mediterranean Shipping Co. for allegedly

SAS Expects to Emerge from Chapter 11 Process by June, CEO Says

Airline SAS AB is set to complete its U.S. chapter 11 process by June following expected regulatory approvals in Europe, according to Chief Executive Officer Anko van der Werff, Bloomberg News

SEC Charges Phoenix Real Estate Investor with Stock Manipulation over Fake WeWork Offer

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday charged Jonathan Larmore, a Phoenix-based real-estate investor, with stock manipulation tied to a false tender offer for now-bankrupt WeWork, the

Chemical Firms to Pay $110 Million to Ohio to Settle Claims over Releases of 'Forever Chemicals'

The DuPont Co. and two spin-off firms will pay $110 million to the state of Ohio to settle a lawsuit over environmental threats from toxic chemicals used at a former DuPont facility in neighboring

Hawaiian Electric Refocuses Grid Plan on Wildfire Risk

Hawaiian Electric said it wasn’t sufficiently focused on wildfire risk before August’s deadly blaze on Maui and proposed nearly tripling the money it would now spend on the effort, the Wall Street

Supreme Court Grants More Time for Appeal of Case Challenging Leveraged-Loan Market

A bankruptcy trustee in a court case with the power to upend the roughly $1.4 trillion leveraged loan market plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case after losing an appeal in August

Long Island Diocese Proposes $200 Million Settlement of Sex Abuse Claims

The Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre, N.Y., has proposed a revised $200 million settlement of sex abuse claims, but faced immediate pushback on Tuesday from a U.S. bankruptcy judge who demanded

Digital Currency Group in Deal with Bankrupt Unit Genesis to End $620 Million Suit

Digital Currency Group struck a new repayment deal with its bankrupt subsidiary, Genesis Global Holdco LLC, as part of an agreement to end a lawsuit that sought roughly $620 million from DCG

Barretts Minerals Fights to Keep Bankruptcy Case in Texas

Talc supplier Barretts Minerals is challenging an effort by creditors, including tort claimants, to move its chapter 11 bankruptcy case from Texas to Montana, where the business is based, WSJ Pro