Bankruptcy and Insolvency News and Analysis – Week Ending June 22, 2018

24 Jun Bankruptcy and Insolvency News and Analysis – Week Ending June 22, 2018

Intellectual Property

Can a Trademark Licensee Keep Using the Mark after the Licensor Files for Bankruptcy? Circuit Split Heads to U.S. Supreme Court

Avoidance and Recovery

Defeating Settling Party’s Effort to Use Preference Law to Void a Bankruptcy Court Settlement

Confirmation

Ninth Circuit Affirms Creditors’ Ability to Buy Blocking Position of Unsecured Claims

The Ninth Circuit Vacates Bankruptcy Court’s Designation Order, Holding That Purchasing a Subset of Available Claims to Block a Plan, Absent An Ulterior Motive, Does Not Constitute Bad Faith

The Incredible Shrinking Bankruptcy Case

Cross-Border

Lehman’s European Plan Approved in New York Bankruptcy Court