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Sherica Celine
over 2 years ago
Legal Insights Blog
Practical Guidance
Is it Hard to Recognize a Chapter 15 Debtor?
Your client list includes international companies that are experiencing distress in the current market. You need to keep up to date on Chapter 15 legal developments in case one of your clients needs to file a foreign insolvency proceeding. Check out this...
Sherica Celine
over 2 years ago
Legal Insights Blog
Practical Guidance
Links to Essential Collier’s Resources Available on Practical Guidance
LexisNexis® publishes the highly regarded Collier on Bankruptcy and other Collier bankruptcy-related treatises. Collier, as the leading treatise on bankruptcy, is essential for bankruptcy practitioners. Practical Guidance Bankruptcy provides links...
Sherica Celine
over 2 years ago
Legal Insights Blog
Practical Guidance
Who Wins in Bankruptcy – the Lessee or the Purchaser?
You represent a Chapter 11 debtor that wants to sell its property free and clear of its tenant’s possessory interest. The tenant wants to retain its rights for the rest of the lease. You need to figure out whether the debtor can extinguish the rights...
Sherica Celine
over 2 years ago
Legal Insights Blog
Practical Guidance
We Should Open an Investigation
You are watching your favorite true-crime documentary and you notice the detective used a notepad with a checklist of items to investigate. As creditors’ committee counsel, you don’t need to write a checklist in a notepad. You can simply use...
Sherica Celine
over 2 years ago
Legal Insights Blog
Practical Guidance
The Waiting is the Hardest Part
On April 7, 2022, the United States Senate passed the Bankruptcy Threshold Adjustment and Technical Corrections Act. If passed into law, it would restore the debt limit for Subchapter V cases back to $7.5 million (as the $7.5 million debt limit lapsed...
Sherica Celine
over 2 years ago
Legal Insights Blog
Practical Guidance
Are More Mega Chapter 11 Filings Coming?
Did you know that several mega Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings have already been filed in 2022? Just last week, GWG Holdings, Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries filed mega Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern...
Vinayak Kohli
over 8 years ago
Practical Guidance Journal
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When Supply Exceeds Demand: Buying and Selling Oil and Gas Assets in the Current Low Price Environment
By: Ira L. Herman , Thompson & Knight LLP The price of crude oil, like the price of virtually all commodities, moves up in times of high demand and down in times of excess capacity. When a mismatch exists between supply and demand, the markets are...
Vinayak Kohli
over 8 years ago
Practical Guidance Journal
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Director Duties in a Transnational Energy Insolvency
By: Cameron Kinvig LEXIS PRACTICE ADVISOR RESEARCH PATH: Financial Restructuring & Bankruptcy > Identifying Bankruptcy Risk > Oil and Gas Agreements > Practice Notes With oil prices at multi-year lows, the upstream oil and gas industry...
Vinayak Kohli
over 7 years ago
Practical Guidance Journal
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The Recharacterization of Loan Agreements under Applicable Bankruptcy and Non-Bankruptcy Law
By: Ira L. Herman , Blank Rome, LLP The Statutory Predicate for Recharacterization To increase their share of a finite bankruptcy pie, creditors, debtors and other parties in interest in a case will seek to reduce or eliminate competing claims. This...
Vinayak Kohli
over 5 years ago
Practical Guidance Journal
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Representing Parties in Interest in a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
By: Mark Haut , Lexis Practice Advisor This article provides general guidance for counsel retained to represent a party in interest in a bankruptcy proceeding. Bankruptcy cases involve myriad issues so coverage in this article is limited to certain...
Vinayak Kohli
over 4 years ago
Practical Guidance Journal
pa
Guidance for Distressed Companies: Loan Workouts and Exchange Offers
By: Daniel G. Egan , Ropes & Gray LLP with updates by the Lexis Practice Advisor Attorney Team As the Coronavirus pandemic continues to impact our economy, many companies will need to consider whether to pursue a loan workout. This article examines...
Sherica Celine
over 2 years ago
Legal Insights Blog
Practical Guidance
I Need Your Opinion – Is This a True Sale?
Your client asks you to draft a true sale opinion. You don’t know where to start but then you remember that Practical Guidance has a detailed form with explanations. READ NOW » Related Content Non-Consolidation Opinion Use this form...
Sherica Celine
over 2 years ago
Legal Insights Blog
Practical Guidance
I Feel the Need for Speed; Filing a Prepackaged Bankruptcy
You represent a company that is in financial distress, and you need to help your client evaluate its options, including whether to file a prepackaged bankruptcy. READ NOW » Related Content Commencing a Prepackaged Bankruptcy Proceeding Read...
Sherica Celine
over 2 years ago
Legal Insights Blog
Practical Guidance
Another Energy Mega Bankruptcy Filing!
On March 31, 2022, Ruby Pipeline, L.L.C. filed a bankruptcy petition for relief under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. The debtor is a midstream service provider and acts as a transporter...
Sherica Celine
over 2 years ago
Legal Insights Blog
Practical Guidance
Make Some Noise for the 341 Meeting Video!
You need to prepare your client for the Section 341 meeting of creditors. Check out this video discussing key components in preparing for a Section 341 meeting of creditors. READ NOW » Related Content Section 341 Meeting Preparation (Chapter...
Sherica Celine
over 2 years ago
Legal Insights Blog
Practical Guidance
The Trusted Trustee
Trustees play a vital role in most bankruptcy cases. Depending on the case, trustees may be appointed, elected, removed, terminated, or discharged. A trustee's responsibilities range from monitoring and supervising a debtor to taking control of a...
Sherica Celine
over 2 years ago
Legal Insights Blog
Practical Guidance
Defending Preference Actions
Your client received a letter demanding the return of millions in alleged preference payments. You need to reassure your client about the multitude of potential preference defenses. READ NOW » Related Content Preferences Review this practice...
Sherica Celine
over 2 years ago
Legal Insights Blog
Practical Guidance
Here Comes the Sun: Confirming a Chapter 11 Plan
You represent a Chapter 11 debtor that is ready to start the confirmation process and are working on a plan that will hopefully be accepted by the debtor’s lenders and creditors and other parties in interest. The plan must also comply with complicated...
Sherica Celine
over 2 years ago
Practical Guidance Journal
pa
Differences between Chapters 7 and 13 of the Bankruptcy Code
By: Mark Haut, PRACTICAL GUIDANCE BANKRUPTCY TEAM with assistance from Emony Robertson, LEXISNEXIS RULE OF LAW FOUNDATION FELLOW This chart details the differences between Chapters 7 and 13 of the Bankruptcy Code and can be used to guide attorneys in...
Sherica Celine
over 2 years ago
Legal Insights Blog
Practical Guidance
Keeping an Eye out for Fraud
Fraud or other misconduct is often an issue in a bankruptcy case. Fraud allegations against the debtor or insiders concern several areas of the Bankruptcy Code. Check out this resource kit for Practical Guidance materials on fraud in bankruptcy. READ...
Sherica Celine
over 2 years ago
Legal Insights Blog
Practical Guidance
Keep Track of Supersized (Mega) Chapter 11 Filings!
We are all bogged down trying to keep track of everything in our personal and professional lives. We made things a little easier. Let us do the work when it comes to tracking new mega Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings. READ NOW » Related Content...
Sherica Celine
over 2 years ago
Legal Insights Blog
Practical Guidance
I Will Have a Loan with Ownership on the Side!
Read this practice note when you have meetings set up with your private equity and distressed debt investor clients and need to discuss loan to own transactions and advise them of their options. READ NOW » Related Content Market Trends 2021...
Sherica Celine
over 2 years ago
Legal Insights Blog
Practical Guidance
Take a Trip Back in Time to 2021!
As we tackle this new year, we should remember the not-so-distant past. Check out this expertly-drafted article that looks back on 2021 bankruptcy cases and notable bankruptcy rulings. READ NOW » Related Content Another New York District...
Sherica Celine
over 2 years ago
Legal Insights Blog
Practical Guidance
How To Handle Rejection?
It has been a few years since the Supreme Court’s decision in the Mission Product case. Your client asks whether its exclusive rights to provide services to the debtor survives rejection of the underlying contract. You may remember reading about...
Sherica Celine
over 2 years ago
Legal Insights Blog
Practical Guidance
The Purdue Pharma Release Saga Continues with an Appeal to the Second Circuit
In December, the District Court for the Southern District of New York found that the bankruptcy court erred in approving the third-party releases contained in the plan filed in the Purdue Pharma L.P.'s (Purdue) bankruptcy case. The district court...
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