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The year in bankruptcy: 2011

  • Jones Day
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  • USA
  • -
  • January 20 2012

A "roller-coaster ride of financial and economic uncertainty" would be one way to describe 2011

The year in bankruptcy: 2012

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 4 2013

December 2012 marked the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the Great Recession, which officially began in December 2007 and ended in June 2009

When do rights of first refusal constitute an unenforceable restriction on assignment in bankruptcy?

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 1 2008

In the chapter 11 cases of Adelphia Communications Corporation and its subsidiaries, Adelphia sought to assume and assign more than 2,000 franchise agreements in connection with the proposed transfer of its cable operations to affiliates of Comcast Corporation and Time Warner Cable

Stockton, California, ruling: bankruptcy court powerless to prevent retiree benefit reductions by municipal debtor

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 1 2012

Amid the economic hardships brought upon us by the Great Recession, the plight of cities, towns, and other municipalities across the U.S. has received a significant amount of media exposure

The rationale against substantive consolidation of nondebtor entities: Florida on the front line

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 13 2012

On January 10, 2012, a Florida bankruptcy court ruled in In re Pearlman, 462 B.R. 849 (Bankr. M.D. Fla. 2012), that substantive consolidation is purely a bankruptcy remedy and that it accordingly did not have the power to consolidate the estate of a debtor in bankruptcy with the assets and affairs of a nondebtor

EuroResource--deals and debt

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • Argentina, Cyprus, France, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • April 29 2013

On 29 March 2013, the Republic of Argentina proposed an alternative payment formula to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that, if

Bankruptcy claims traders beware: ensure that the cure comes with the claim

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 1 2011

Over the past five years, courts have issued rulings of potential concern to buyers of distressed debt

Substantive consolidation and nondebtor entities: the fight continues

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 1 2011

Although it has been described as an "extraordinary remedy," the ability of a bankruptcy court to order the substantive consolidation of related debtor-entities in bankruptcy (if circumstances so dictate) is relatively uncontroversial, as an appropriate exercise of a bankruptcy court's broad (albeit nonstatutory) equitable powers

Effect of acceleration upon a Chapter 11 filing on enforceability of make-whole or prepayment premiums

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 14 2012

Indentures often contain make-whole premiums payable upon early redemption of the debt, and term B loan agreements often include "soft call" protection in the form of prepayment premiums during the early life of the loan

An overview of Chapter 9 of the Bankruptcy Code: municipal debt adjustments

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 16 2010

As attention shifts from the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 to the global sovereign crisis that currently is affecting much of Europe, lawmakers are scrambling to create new laws and regulations designed to stave off the next financial crisis