Roadblocks and Detours: Strategies for Enhancing Creditor Recovery

Is the debtor always right? The Bankruptcy Code and its underlying policies are designed to give the debtor a fresh start and foster reorganization. However, committees and individual creditors are not always on board with a debtor’s restructuring efforts and at times prefer payment over compromise or even a going-forward business partner. This panel covers the tools and strategies committees and individual creditors use to slow down a debtor’s restructuring efforts to address the collective demands of committees or the individual needs of creditors, both big and small.