Large Cap
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May 24, 2024
Healthcare REIT Nabs $800M Despite Tenant Turbulence
Medical Properties Trust Inc. announced Friday that the real estate investment trust has secured a £631 million ($804 million) financing from a group of investors led by real estate investment firm Song Capital, in a deal led by Goodwin Procter LLP and Slaughter and May.
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May 24, 2024
Biden Urges 1st Circ. To Find Debt Cap Challenge Moot
The Biden administration asked the First Circuit to affirm a finding that a government workers' union lacks standing to challenge the debt ceiling's constitutionality and that its case was further rendered moot by passage of a deal to suspend the spending limit until January.
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May 23, 2024
ConvergeOne Defeats 'Law Review Article' Objection To Reorg
Information technology company ConvergeOne won a Texas bankruptcy judge's blessing Thursday to cut more than $1 billion of debt under a reorganization deal that a group of senior lenders said would unlawfully advantage rival creditors.
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May 23, 2024
FTX Judge Declines To Undo Ch. 11 Digital Claim Estimation
The judge overseeing the Chapter 11 case of cryptocurrency exchange FTX Trading Ltd. on Thursday denied a request to vacate an earlier ruling allowing the debtor to estimate the claims of creditors holding digital assets based on their petition date value, saying the party seeking to undo the order had not provided any new evidence to justify the action.
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May 23, 2024
99 Cents Only Gets OK To Sell Stores For $170M In Ch. 11
Discount retail chain 99 Cents Only on Thursday got the green light of a Delaware bankruptcy judge to sell off 44 lots of its assets for a combined price of $170 million as it moves towards a wind-down.
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May 23, 2024
Dynata Gets Initial OK For Ch. 11 Loan, July Plan Hearing
Data provider and market research company Dynata Thursday received interim approval from a Delaware bankruptcy judge to tap into $31.5 million in Chapter 11 financing, a step company counsel says sets it on the road to emerge from bankruptcy by early July.
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May 23, 2024
Who's Who On The NJ Bankruptcy Bench, Part 2
Chief U.S. District Judge Renée Marie Bumb said last week that New Jersey saw the second-most Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings in the nation over the last year — up from sixth the year before — with 16% growth in overall filings and a 133% increase in Chapter 11 filings.
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May 23, 2024
Ex-Judge Pushed False Narrative On Atty Romance, Firm Says
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David R. Jones of Texas, who resigned last year after his secret relationship with a Jackson Walker LLP partner was revealed, attempted to head off rumors about the relationship by asking the firm to file a false, partial disclosure in 2022, the firm alleged.
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May 23, 2024
J&J Loses Expedited Bid For Beasley Allen Docs In Talc MDL
Johnson & Johnson has lost its bid in New Jersey federal court to have the Beasley Allen Law Firm quickly produce documents related to what J&J said seems to be an "intentional effort" by the firm to "bias the vote" against a proposed $6.5 billion reorganization plan for its talc subsidiary.
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May 23, 2024
Alex Jones Atty Escapes Suspension, For Now
The Connecticut Appellate Court on Thursday threw out the six-month suspension of Norm Pattis, the lead attorney in Infowars host Alex Jones' Sandy Hook Elementary School defamation trial, ordering new proceedings against the attorney for supervising the transmission of the victims' confidential records to other Jones lawyers.
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May 22, 2024
Cancer Patients Target J&J Talc Unit's Asset Shuffles
Cancer patients who have sued Johnson & Johnson alleging that its talcum powder caused their illness alleged Wednesday that the company has tried to intentionally prevent tort victims from getting their day in court through a scheme of fraudulent corporate transactions.
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May 22, 2024
1st Circ. Affirms UBS Win In Puerto Rico Pension Fight
The First Circuit said public pensioners in Puerto Rico can't advance their claims that UBS Financial Services illegally underwrote $3 billion in bonds, ruling that the island's financial restructuring plan transferred the right to those claims to a special committee.
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May 22, 2024
Who's Who On The NJ Bankruptcy Bench, Part 1
New Jersey saw the second-most Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings in the nation over the last year. Here, Law360 takes a look at the judges leading the increasingly busy bankruptcy court, starting with those sitting in Trenton and Camden.
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May 22, 2024
Eye Care Gets Nod On Ch. 11 Sale With Improved Price
Optometry software maker Eye Care Leaders received a Texas bankruptcy court's approval Wednesday to sell its assets to its debtor-in-possession financing lender at a higher purchase price of $14.5 million.
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May 22, 2024
Exxon Contractor Offered June 1 Ch. 11 Mediation Start Day
A Texas bankruptcy judge on Wednesday told the general contractor for a liquefied natural gas project co-owned by Exxon Mobil Corp. and QatarEnergy that its Chapter 11 case could go before another judge it had requested for mediation at the start of June, if that satisfied all involved.
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May 22, 2024
Data Research Firm Dynata Hits Ch. 11 With Over $1B Debt
Global data provider and market research company Dynata LLC filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware on Wednesday with $1.4 billion in total debt, blaming a business slowdown on a steep drop in M&A deals, post-pandemic struggles to rebuild its base of survey-takers and a failure to keep up with rivals.
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May 21, 2024
Full 5th Circ. Urged To Rethink Blocking Student Loan Rule
The U.S. Department of Education has asked the full Fifth Circuit to reconsider a recent preliminary injunction a three-judge panel ordered blocking changes to a program providing student loan forgiveness to borrowers defrauded by higher education institutions. It said the panel wrongly held that the department doesn't have the authority to determine whether a borrower has a valid defense to repayment.
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May 21, 2024
Bankrupt SVB Fights To Keep $1.9B Suit Against FDIC Alive
The bankrupt former parent company of Silicon Valley Bank urged a California federal judge on Tuesday not to toss its suit against the Financial Deposit Insurance Corp. that seeks to get the deposit insurer to return $1.93 billion, saying the FDIC has not fulfilled its obligation to turn over the company's account funds.
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May 21, 2024
Talc Biz Barretts Gets New $30M DIP Loan From Parent Co.
Barretts Minerals, a company that mines talc, received a Texas bankruptcy court's approval Tuesday to tap $30 million in emergency debtor-in-possession financing from a subsidiary of its nondebtor parent company, after an asset sale generated less money than expected.
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May 21, 2024
Yellow Corp. Seeks Ch. 11 Plan Extension After $2B In Sales
Bankrupt trucking firm Yellow Corp. has asked a Delaware judge to extend the period during which it has the exclusive right to file a Chapter 11 plan for the third time, touting its nearly $2 billion in real estate sales that it says have allowed it to pay off its secured debts.
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May 21, 2024
Ex-Director For Byju's Alpha In Contempt Over Missing $533M
A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Tuesday held in contempt a former executive for the insolvent U.S. affiliate of Indian education technology giant Byju's, finding he had been disingenuous about his attempts to track down an alleged $533 million fraudulent transfer.
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May 21, 2024
Alex Jones Judge Sets Day Of Reckoning For Ch. 11 Case
Saying that something has to happen in the bankruptcy case of right-wing radio firebrand Alex Jones, the Texas judge overseeing the case reiterated his position that Jones' Chapter 11 plan will be confirmed at a June 14 hearing or the case will be dismissed or converted to a liquidation.
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May 21, 2024
Variety Of Cases Propelled Rise In New Jersey Ch. 11 Filings
The cases that have made the New Jersey bankruptcy court the second busiest in the nation have run the gamut from nationwide retail chains, major real estate players and Johnson & Johnson's mass tort talc spinoff to genetic labs and cryptocurrency platforms.
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May 21, 2024
Cano Judge Agrees To OK Ch. 11 Plan Disclosure Statement
A Delaware bankruptcy judge agreed on Tuesday to sign off on Miami-based primary healthcare group Cano Health Inc.'s Chapter 11 disclosure statement for purposes of soliciting creditor votes once the debtor files a revised proposed order that bakes in language that garnered support from unsecured creditors.
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May 21, 2024
Strategic Hiring Was The New Normal For BigLaw In 2023
The 400 largest law firms by headcount in the U.S. grew more slowly in 2023 than in the previous two years, while Kirkland & Ellis LLP surpassed the 3,000-attorney threshold, according to the latest Law360 ranking.