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Meet The Attorneys In World Of Beer's Ch. 11
Bar and restaurant chain World of Beer, which entered bankruptcy with about $30 million in debt, is chasing the possibility of confirming a Chapter 11 plan at record speed for the Florida bankruptcy district where it filed. To get it there, the debtor has assembled a team of lawyers in the Sunshine State from Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP and Fox Rothschild LLP.
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CRE Reset Heats Up As Lenders Take Fight To Guarantors
Remote work and high interest rates have dented commercial real estate values, but much of the fallout is yet to come. While the market waits for values to reset, some lenders are now turning to a strategy that indicates they are reaching their limit: pursuing guarantors.
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Meet The Attys Guiding Crypto Miner Rhodium Through Ch. 11
Bitcoin mining group Rhodium Encore LLC has filed for Chapter 11 in Texas amid a lease dispute over a mining facility. Guiding Rhodium through its bankruptcy is a team of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP attorneys who have represented clients in the crypto industry and beyond.
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Richards Layton & Finger PA has announced the launch of an arbitration and mediation practice to bolster its alternative dispute resolution services to better serve its clients.
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A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Tuesday agreed to approve the Chapter 11 liquidation and wind-down plan of defunct internet service provider GigaMonster, finding the plan's third-party releases and overall cred... (more story)
The official committee of asbestos claimants in the Chapter 11 case of Georgia-Pacific unit Bestwall told the Fourth Circuit that the company's bankruptcy should be tossed because commitments to fund asbestos ... (more story)
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A California federal jury on Tuesday convicted disbarred attorney Tom Girardi on all four counts of wire fraud, finding that the former titan of the plaintiffs bar misappropriated $15 million of his clients' settlement funds.