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Judge Romance Row Remanded, Ch. 11 Plans Approved
A Texas federal judge sent part of a dispute over a former bankruptcy judge's secret romance with a onetime Jackson Walker partner back to the court where the disgraced jurist once oversaw high-profile insolvencies, ordering the CEO of a defunct barge operator to seek standing in Texas bankruptcy court.
Meet The Attys Advising Skin Care Tech Co. Cutera In Ch. 11
Cutera Inc., a skin care and beauty technology company, has hired lawyers from Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP and Ropes & Gray LLP to help it address unsustainable debt through a pre-packaged debt-swap Chapter 11 plan.
Under The Radar: Bankruptcy News You May Have Missed
The U.S. Trustee's Office opposed Yellow Corp.'s Chapter 11 plan, saying its exculpation provisions cover ineligible people and entities. Bernie Madoff's liquidation trustee has begun doling out another $76 million to claimants. And clothing retailer Delta Apparel made a bid to pivot to a wind-down in its bankruptcy that was opposed by tax claimants in Texas.
Judge Romance Row Remanded, Ch. 11 Plans Approved
A Texas federal judge sent part of a dispute over a former bankruptcy judge's secret romance with a onetime Jackson Walker partner back to the court where the disgraced jurist once oversaw high-profile insolvencies, ordering the CEO of a defunct barge operator to seek standing in Texas bankruptcy court.
Meet The Attys Advising Skin Care Tech Co. Cutera In Ch. 11
Cutera Inc., a skin care and beauty technology company, has hired lawyers from Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP and Ropes & Gray LLP to help it address unsustainable debt through a pre-packaged debt-swap Chapter 11 plan.
Under The Radar: Bankruptcy News You May Have Missed
The U.S. Trustee's Office opposed Yellow Corp.'s Chapter 11 plan, saying its exculpation provisions cover ineligible people and entities. Bernie Madoff's liquidation trustee has begun doling out another $76 million to claimants. And clothing retailer Delta Apparel made a bid to pivot to a wind-down in its bankruptcy that was opposed by tax claimants in Texas.
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Dykema Gossett PLLC has expanded in Houston with the addition of seven attorneys, five of whom joined from Kane Russell Coleman Logan PC and two who came aboard from Hirsch & Westheimer PC.
Communications software company Mitel Networks has put together a team of lawyers from Porter Hedges LLP and Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP to oversee the debtor's Chapter 11 case and prepackaged bankruptcy plan.
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A Texas bankruptcy judge Monday agreed to confirm a Chapter 11 plan for the bankrupt parent of snack maker Hearthside Food Solutions, overruling an objection from the U.S. Trustee's Office alleging the plan wo... (more story)
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Manhattan-based Pierson Ferdinand LLP announced Monday the hiring of two former partners at CM Law PLLC for its bankruptcy, financial restructuring and reorganization practice.
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A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Monday asked the Chapter 11 plan administrator of defunct cryptocurrency software developer Terraform Labs to slightly modify instructions for creditors filing claims for its col... (more story)
Prison healthcare company Wellpath Holdings Inc. asked a Texas bankruptcy judge for another 120 days to work on its Chapter 11 plan and collect votes for it, saying it needs the added time to address issues wi... (more story)
Communications software company Mitel Networks filed for Chapter 11 protection Monday in a Texas bankruptcy court with a prepackaged equity-swap plan it says will cut $1.15 billion from its more than $1.3 bill... (more story)
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A Texas bankruptcy judge on Tuesday signed off on a request to appoint a Chapter 11 trustee to take over the bankruptcy case of Timeline Construction Inc., after the U.S. Trustee's Office said the debtor's sol... (more story)
A Texas bankruptcy judge said Tuesday he will issue a written opinion on whether the U.S. Trustee's Office can put The Container Store's Chapter 11 plan on hold to appeal the judge's decision that a creditor's... (more story)
The official committee of unsecured creditors in the Chapter 11 case of coal producer White Forest Resources Inc. objected to the debtor's proposed bankruptcy financing package, saying it is an insider transac... (more story)
An insurer has asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to reject CarePoint Health Systems' Chapter 11 plan, saying it is designed to unfairly benefit the debtor's landlord with liability releases.
A Delaware bankruptcy judge has approved trash-to-gas fuel refiner Fulcrum BioEnergy Inc.'s Chapter 11 plan disclosure statement, which would grant the company's unsecured creditors up to $325 million, ahead o... (more story)
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A hearing for bankrupt trucking company KAL Freight to determine whether to convert the case to a Chapter 7 liquidation was pushed back to next week as the debtor tried to finalize a Chapter 11 asset sale.
Bankrupt electric vehicle and hydrogen fueling technology maker Nikola Corporation received approval Friday in Delaware for its proposed bidding procedures, which seek to conduct an auction for its asset in a month's time.