Large Cap
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January 13, 2025
Purdue Pharma Inks Draft Deal, Seeks Mediation Extension
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP has inked a 50-page term sheet and 75-page draft master settlement agreement that could resolve its more than 5-year-old bankruptcy case after its last plan was tossed out, it said in a New York court filing.
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January 13, 2025
Infowars Bidder Raises Offer As Attys Consider Auction
A failed bidder for conspiracy-monger Alex Jones' Infowars has more than doubled the amount it would pay to acquire the website, and the parent company of satirical news site The Onion is preparing to submit its own revised bid, counsel for the trustee in Jones' Chapter 7 case said at a hearing in Texas bankruptcy court Monday.
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January 13, 2025
Alex Jones Switches Conn. Attys In $1B Sandy Hook Appeal
A Randazza Legal Group attorney will represent Alex Jones in a Connecticut Supreme Court bid to erase the remainder of a $1.44 billion defamation judgment for Sandy Hook shooting victims after the Infowars host's now-former lawyer raised unspecified conflict concerns about a third attorney representing Jones in the Connecticut appeal.
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January 13, 2025
Yellow Corp. Says Pension Funds Set Liability Too High
Bankrupt trucking company Yellow Corp. told a Delaware bankruptcy judge on Monday that the administrators of its union pension funds have set the company's liability for ending its contributions too high.
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January 12, 2025
Hospital Operator Hits Ch. 11 With $1B-Plus Debt, Sale Plans
Listing more than $1 billion in debts, California-based hospital operator Prospect Medical Holdings Inc. and several subsidiaries on Saturday filed a Chapter 11 petition in bankruptcy court in the Northern District of Texas, saying they intend to advance the planned sales of several facilities and refocus on operations in their home state.
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January 10, 2025
Under The Radar: Bankruptcy News You May Have Missed
Solar power company iSun asked to switch its bankruptcy proceedings to a Chapter 7, after finding that it couldn't afford its Chapter 11 plan. Nash Engineering Co.'s Chapter 7 trustee asked a bankruptcy judge to sign off on a $9 million settlement with two insurers that had bought back their policies in 2020. And the Second Circuit put out the call for would-be bankruptcy judges to submit their applications to sit on the bench in Manhattan.
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January 10, 2025
Bradley Arant Promotes 17 Attorneys To Partner
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP has announced that it promoted 17 of its attorneys from various practice groups and offices nationally to partner.
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January 10, 2025
Ferguson Braswell Adds 5-Atty Vogt Resnick Team In Calif.
Ferguson Braswell Fraser Kubasta PC has grown its presence in Orange County, California, with the addition of five Vogt Resnick & Sherak LLP attorneys and a new office space.
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January 10, 2025
J&J Talc Claimants Seek Sanctions Over Morelli No-Show
A group of attorneys representing talc claimants in Johnson & Johnson unit Red River Talc's Chapter 11 case has urged a Texas bankruptcy judge to sanction Morelli Law Firm PLLC's founding partner, Benedict Morelli, for allegedly failing to appear in person at a December hearing and falsely claiming to have resolved a dispute with the talc group.
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January 10, 2025
Ex-McKinsey Partner Admits To Obstructing Purdue Probe
A former senior partner at consulting giant McKinsey & Co. pled guilty Friday to obstructing the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation into the firm's work with opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma LP, a month after McKinsey agreed to pay $650 million to resolve related charges.
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January 09, 2025
Bankruptcy As We Know It Became Law Under Jimmy Carter
It was the late 39th president Jimmy Carter who signed into law the bill that remade the modern bankruptcy system in 1978, two months after and in the very same location as the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel that was one of his most celebrated achievements.
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January 09, 2025
J&J Spin-Off Says Talc Committee Can't Hire Brown Rudnick
Johnson & Johnson's bankrupt spin-off called Brown Rudnick's bid to represent an official committee of talc claimants "an ethical violation," telling a Texas bankruptcy judge that the law firm's previous work for a group trying to toss the case clashes with the committee's support for its Chapter 11 plan.
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January 09, 2025
FTX Squabbles With Crypto Startup Over EU Distributions
The estate of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX said it had no involvement with a startup cryptocurrency exchange's announcement that it had purchased FTX EU and would be handling distributions to former customers of the FTX European subsidiary.
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January 09, 2025
Delaware Law Firms Kick Off New Year With Atty Promotions
As the new year gets underway, numerous Delaware law firms recently announced attorney promotions, including Bayard PA, Morris James LLP, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP and Gordon Fournaris & Mammarella PA.
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January 09, 2025
Morris Nichols Promotes Finance Director To CFO
Delaware firm Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP has promoted its director of finance to serve as its chief financial officer to help steer its financial and strategic direction.
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January 08, 2025
Meet The Lawyers Steering Satellite Co. Ligado's Ch. 11
Telecommunications group Ligado Networks filed for bankruptcy earlier this week to trim $7.8 billion from its balance sheet as it wages a legal crusade over roadblocks that have delayed a 5G network project. Guiding Ligado Networks through Chapter 11 are a team of Milbank LLP and Richards Layton & Finger PA attorneys.
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January 08, 2025
Bankrupt Ligado Sues Over $1.7B Cooperation Deal Breach
Satellite communications company Ligado Networks accused a satellite service provider of breaching a $1.7 billion cooperation deal aimed at facilitating Ligado's terrestrial network operations by failing to upgrade its own satellite terminals and deliver portions of its spectrum.
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January 08, 2025
EPA Slams $535M Talc Settlement In Whittaker's Ch. 11
The U.S. government objected to a $535 million settlement that bankrupt talc supplier Whittaker Clark & Daniels reached regarding talc claims in its New Jersey Chapter 11 case, saying the deal was built on faulty estimates of the company's environmental liabilities.
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January 08, 2025
Prison Health Co. Wellpath Gets OK For $395M Ch. 11 Sale
A Texas bankruptcy judge has approved a nearly $400 million sale of prison healthcare provider Wellpath's behavioral health division, Recovery Solutions.
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January 08, 2025
Catching Up With New Bankruptcy Case Action
Satellite and spectrum firm Ligado Networks filed in Delaware with $8.6 billion in debt. Regional airline Silver Airways LLC entered bankruptcy with plans to restructure by early 2025. A New York City waterfront condominium owner cited $70 million in liabilities, while a Long Island nursing home with $58 million in debt blamed its filing on litigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
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January 08, 2025
Criminal Case Against Terraform Founder Said To Exceed SEC's
The $40 billion criminal case against Terraform founder Do Kwon contains evidence such as recordings and seized mobile phones that exceed what securities regulators presented when they prevailed against him at a civil fraud trial, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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January 08, 2025
Northvolt Shareholders Vote To Keep Business Operating
Bankrupt electric vehicle battery maker Northvolt AB received shareholder approval Wednesday to keep its business going, in a move a company spokesperson had called a "procedural step" consistent with Swedish legal requirements.
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January 07, 2025
Energy Co. Inks $126 Million Deal To End SPAC Merger Suit
Investors suing the now-bankrupt oil and gas company Alta Mesa Resources Inc. have asked a Texas federal judge to preliminarily approve a $126.3 million deal to settle claims that the company and its executives misled investors about the value of a 2017 merger.
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January 07, 2025
Ex-Endo Execs Seek End To Trustee Suit Over Opioid Sales
A group of former Endo International directors and officers are asking a New York bankruptcy judge to throw out a suit accusing them of driving the company into Chapter 11 by marketing dangerous opioids, arguing that the company was one of the first drugmakers to stop selling opioids.
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January 07, 2025
J&J, Talc Suppliers, Insurers Spar Over $505M Sale Stay
The former talc suppliers of Johnson & Johnson said Tuesday that staying part of a settlement and a connected bankruptcy sale could bog down their efforts to secure plan confirmations and exit Chapter 11, urging a Delaware bankruptcy judge to reject a motion to set aside $50 million from the $505 million deal while it is being appealed.