[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Image by edinburghcityofprint via Flickr"][/caption] Can a senior secured lender require, through...
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Image via Wikipedia"][/caption] Last year, the Supreme Court issued one of its...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="299" caption="Image via Wikipedia"][/caption] Outside of bankruptcy, a creditor whose loan is secured...
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Image via Wikipedia"][/caption] Nearly 16 months ago, this blog covered the story...
Last week, the Judicial Conference Advisory Committees on Appellate, Bankruptcy, Civil, Criminal, and Evidence Rules...
After a brief hiatus, we're back - and just in time to discuss a recent...
One of the time-honored attractions of US bankruptcy practice is the set of tools provided...
Guest-blogger Ray Clark of Valcor (whose prior posts appear here, here, and here) has recently...
On Thursday, the US Supreme Court released its second decision in the long-runing battle between...
A prior post on this blog featured an article highlighting some of the basic principles...
Personal liability for corporate debt has been all the rage in the Ninth Circuit. Within...
Chapter 11 practice – like so many other professional service specialties – is regrettably jargon-laden. ...
Many insolvency practitioners are familiar with the "high-asset" individual debtor - often a business owner...
When a retailer becomes insolvent, suppliers or vendors who have recently provided goods on credit typically have...
Most insolvency practitioners are familiar with the fighting which often ensues when creditors jockey for...
From Florida's Northern District comes a cautionary tale of what can go wrong when distressed real...
One of the most effective vehicles for the rescue and revitalization of troubled business and...
Title II of the Dodd-Frank Act provides “the necessary authority to liquidate failing financial companies...
When a municipality faces municipal distress, who ultimately picks up the tab? More importantly, who...
It is axiomatic in American business bankruptcy practice that though they may disagree strenuously on...
A South Carolina bankruptcy court decision issued earlier this month highlights and illustrates the perils...
Last month, the Delaware Bankruptcy Court offered an interesting look at the preemptive effect of...
Chapter 15 of the US Bankruptcy Code, enacted in 2005, was Congress' effort to make...
Asset sales through bankruptcy are all the rage - they're presumably [relatively] quick. And just...
During recent years, the global economy has seen significant growth in transactions which purport to...
Jones Day's Charles Oellerman and Mark Douglas have just issued The Year in Bankruptcy: 2010. It...
Ever since the first corporate reorganizations in the US, business owners have been looking for...
The 2008 financial crisis sparked a vigorous debate over how the financial problems of troubled...
Readers of this blog will know that a number of jurisdictions around the world have...
Norton’s recently-published 2010 Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law offers an intriguing article focusing on an...
Image via Wikipedia The Insolvency Law Committee for the California State Bar's Business Law Section has...
South Bay Law Firm will be back posting in 2011. In the meantime, have a safe...
The distribution scheme embodied in federal bankruptcy law serves several important functions. In Chapter 7,...
One of the historical attractions of the Bankruptcy Code as a vehicle for restructuring is...
Last month, this blog featured a preliminary post on Ahcom Ltd. v. Smeding (9th Cir. Oct....
About a month ago, the Ninth Circuit clarified and restated the ability of individual creditors...
Back in May, this blog featured a post on some preliminary research addressing the idea of...
Late last month, the 9th Circuit Bankrpuptcy Appellate Panel clarified earlier precedent and held that...
The American Bar Association Section of Business Law provided comments last week to the Senate...
Whenever a troubled business seeks bankruptcy protection, unsecured creditors are often left scrambling to find...