Bankruptcy and Insolvency News and Analysis – Week Ending January 8, 2016

09 Jan Bankruptcy and Insolvency News and Analysis – Week Ending January 8, 2016

Current Developments/Trends

Commercial Bankruptcy: Selected 2015 Cases of Interest to Banking and Finance

Bankruptcy Filings Drop 10% in 2015

Restructuring Activity to Be Boosted By Flagging Commodities in 2016

Energy, Retail, Healthcare and Education Facing the Most Distress, Says AlixPartners Restructuring Survey

Sales

Court Sets Aside 21-Year Old Bankruptcy Sale for Fraud on the Court Despite Absence of Specific Allegations That Fraud Reduced the Sale Price!

Sale of Substantially All of Debtor’s Assets Cannot Be Approved in a Final Cash Collateral Order

Executory Contracts

The Impact of Rejection on Trademark Licensees’ Rights in Bankruptcy: the Latest Decision on an Issue that Has Courts Divided

Plan Confirmation

Is Chapter 11 A Painless Solution For Guarantors?

Zero Times Something is Still Zero: Adapting Till to Unsecured Creditors

Cross-Border

COMI and get it: international approaches to cross-border insolvencies