Contact: John Hartgen
703-894-5935
BUSINESS DECISIONS OF LIQUIDATING DEBTORS SHOULD RECEIVE MORE SCRUTINY
THAN REORGANIZING DEBTORS, ACCORDING TO LATEST ABI QUICK
POLL
December 14, 2009, Alexandria, Va.
size='3'>— A majority respondents (51 percent) in a recent ABI
Quick Poll agreed that the business decisions of a liquidating debtor
are not entitled to the same degree of deference as those of a
reorganizing debtor. Thirty-one percent of
respondents “strongly agreed” and 20 percent “somewhat
agreed.”
Forty-one percent of respondents thought that a
liquidating debtor’s business decisions should be entitled to the
same amount of leeway as a reorganizing debtor. Twenty-seven percent
“disagreed strongly” and 14 percent “somewhat
disagreed” that the business decisions of a liquidating debtor are
not entitled to the same degree of deference as those of a reorganizing
debtor. Five percent of respondents did not know or had no opinion on
the issue.
ABI members and members of the public were welcome to
submit their response to the statement: “When a DIP is liquidating
the business, its business decisions are not entitled to the same degree
of deference as those of a reorganizing debtor.”
ABI’s Quick Poll is posted on ABI’s home
page, www.abiworld.org. ABI members
and the public are invited to respond to a question on a timely
bankruptcy or insolvency issue. Visit
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to access the results of previous ABI Quick
Polls.
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