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Bankruptcy Court grounds American Airlines noteholders’ make-whole claim

  • Bracewell & Giuliani LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 22 2013

Last week the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York approved debtor-American Airlines' motion to enter into a secured

Noteholders shatter Vitro subsidiaries in Texas

  • Bracewell & Giuliani LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 11 2012

Last week, the Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas granted involuntary bankruptcy petitions against ten US subsidiaries of Mexican glassmaker Vitro S.A.B. de C.V. (the “New Debtor Subsidiaries” and “Vitro”, respectively

This time Argentina gets the shot across the bow . . .

  • Bracewell & Giuliani LLP
  • -
  • Argentina, USA
  • -
  • November 15 2012

Earlier this year we wrote about the Argentine government’s nationalization of Repsol’s shares in YPF, warning investors in Argentina of the uncertainty of future nationalization activity in Argentina

First, second and third times are all the charm

  • Bracewell & Giuliani LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 8 2012

A third court confirms that settlement payments are still settlement payments and early redemptions of notes prior to maturity are exempted from preference actions

For whom the bell decision tolls

  • Bracewell & Giuliani LLP
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • August 20 2012

Whether you are a John Donne, Ernest Hemingway or Metallica fan, the above clause rings a bell

Don’t be late, for that very important bar date!

  • Bracewell & Giuliani LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 19 2012

On March 13, 2012 the Queen of Hearts in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals showed no sympathy for the White Rabbit’s plight and denied a creditor’s appeal of an order disallowing its late filed proof of claim in the DHL Master Land Holding LLC bankruptcy case

Even bankruptcy court’s equity power doesn’t trump conditions precedent to the payment of $500 million

  • Bracewell & Giuliani LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 7 2012

Bankruptcy Courts may be courts of equity, but a recent decision by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York holds that even equity can’t trump the plain words of a settlement agreement

Section 550 of the Bankruptcy Code won’t cap the flow of avoidance action liability

  • Bracewell & Giuliani LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 24 2012

Tronox Incorporated and certain affiliates (the “Debtors”) emerged from Chapter 11 in February 2011 armed with a new capital structure and operational game plan, but that’s yesterday’s news

Checkmate: Third Circuit holds automatic stay bars participation in U.K. pension proceedings

  • Bracewell & Giuliani LLP
  • -
  • Canada, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • January 19 2012

A recent decision by the Third Circuit in the Nortel Group bankruptcy reinforces the worldwide reach of the automatic stay and the narrow scope of the police power exception under section 362(b)(4) of the Bankruptcy Code

Unsecured creditors beware! The Western District of Texas Bankruptcy Court declares an unsecured creditor cannot have its cake and eat it too

  • Bracewell & Giuliani LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 28 2011

Bankruptcy courts have long debated the issue of whether an unsecured creditor can recover post-petition legal fees under the Bankruptcy Code