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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.
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January 07, 2025
Commercial Ch. 11s Surged 20% In 2024 As Inflation Stung
Commercial Chapter 11s increased 20% in 2024, leading a broader 14% incline in all new bankruptcies as the rate of filings looks set to return to higher prepandemic figures, according to new data.
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January 07, 2025
Ligado Gets OK To Tap $939M DIP Amid Spectrum Spat
Satellite and spectrum business Ligado Networks received a Delaware bankruptcy judge's approval Tuesday to borrow a share of $939 million in Chapter 11 financing that the company will use to repay high-ranking debt and support itself during the case.
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January 07, 2025
Northvolt Asks Shareholders To Vote On Continuing Business
Bankrupt electric vehicle battery maker Northvolt AB asked its shareholders to vote Wednesday on keeping the business going, in a move a company spokesperson called a "procedural step" consistent with Swedish legal requirements.
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January 07, 2025
Ligado Blames US Gov't Spectrum Disputes For Ch. 11
A significant investment in 5G technology and disputes with the U.S. government over spectrum usage have driven satellite business Ligado Networks into financial distress, prompting the company to seek Chapter 11 protection.
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January 07, 2025
Lowenstein Sandler Elects 5-Atty Partner Class For 2025
Lowenstein Sandler LLP announced a class of five new partners for 2025 this week, drawing on attorneys working from New York and New Jersey and bringing expertise in tax law, environmental law, white collar defense and more.
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January 07, 2025
CFPB Adopts Rule To Take Medical Debt Off Credit Reports
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau moved ahead Tuesday with plans to restrict the use of medical debt information in credit scoring and lending, finalizing a rule that it said will take an estimated $49 billion in unpaid medical bills off consumers' credit reports.
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January 06, 2025
Dentons Adds Ex-Skadden Bankruptcy Pro In Calif.
Global law firm Dentons is beefing up its restructuring, insolvency and bankruptcy practice with a new Los Angeles partner who spent more than two decades at Skadden, most recently as Skadden's head for corporate restructuring practice in the western United States.
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January 06, 2025
Eletson Alters Sanctions Threat For Old Owners, Reed Smith
The new owners of reorganized Greek shipping group Eletson Holdings Monday brought a reworked request that a New York bankruptcy judge threaten its former owners and their counsel at Reed Smith with sanctions if they failed to update the company's ownership records.
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January 06, 2025
Terraform Victims May Exceed 1M, Feds Say In Notice Request
The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday asked a Manhattan federal judge for permission to issue a public notice to notify potential victims of defunct cryptocurrency firm Terraform Labs' creator Do Kwon's alleged $40 billion fraud, saying there are too many victims — potentially more than one million — to do individual outreach.
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January 06, 2025
Giuliani's Held In Contempt, Terraform Founder Denies Fraud
A Manhattan federal judge held Rudy Giuliani in contempt over a $148 million defamation judgment, after the former New York City mayor cited memory lapses during questioning about the case. Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon was arraigned in New York and denied orchestrating a $40 billion fraud, with a follow-up hearing scheduled for Jan. 8. Celsius Network appealed a Delaware bankruptcy judge's decision to deny its amended $444.6 million claim against FTX.
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January 06, 2025
Girard Sharp Launches Into New Year With New Leadership
San Francisco-based Girard Sharp has kicked off the new year with a major leadership change, announcing Monday that Daniel C. Girard had stepped down as managing partner of the prominent plaintiffs complex litigation boutique he founded in 1995 and that longtime partner Dena C. Sharp was taking the reins.
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January 06, 2025
Chinese Billionaire's Deputy Gets 10 Years For $1.4B Fraud
A Manhattan federal judge sentenced a Chinese business manager to 10 years in prison Monday for her role assisting convicted billionaire Miles Guo's $1.4 billion fraud, saying the lawbreaking was egregious because it leveraged talk of bringing democracy to authoritarian China.
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January 06, 2025
Satellite Co. Ligado Hits Ch. 11 With $8.6B Of Debt
Satellite business Ligado Networks filed for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware bankruptcy court with about $8.6 billion of debt and a plan to hand control of the company to creditors after suffering what its chief executive called "catastrophic" losses allegedly caused in part by the U.S. Department of Defense.
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January 03, 2025
Opt-Out Releases In Lumio's Ch. 11 Plan Rejected
A Delaware bankruptcy judge Friday rejected the opt-out mechanism for obtaining releases for third parties in Solar panel provider Lumio Holdings LLC's Chapter 11 plan, but said she would allow it to solicit votes on the plan.
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January 03, 2025
Hertz Off The Hook For $337M Bond In Claim Recalculation Tiff
A Delaware bankruptcy judge said Hertz Corp. doesn't need to post a $337.4 million bond while she uses an appeals court decision on underpaid interest to recalculate a group of unsecured noteholders' claims, writing the request would alter Hertz's more than 3-year-old Chapter 11 plan and give the noteholders better treatment than other creditors.
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January 03, 2025
Houlihan Lokey's $1.75M Fee Upheld In J&J Unit's Ch. 11
A New Jersey federal judge upheld a $1.75 million discretionary fee payable to investment banking firm Houlihan Lokey Capital for its work on behalf of talc claimants in the second Chapter 11 case of Johnson & Johnson's former talc unit.
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January 03, 2025
Diamond Sports Exits Ch. 11, Rebrands As Main Street Sports
Diamond Sports Group has emerged from Chapter 11 with a balance sheet that is nearly $9 billion lighter in debt and with a new name, the sports broadcasting company has announced.
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January 03, 2025
Meet The Attys Guiding Party City Back Through Ch. 11
A team of attorneys from Porter Hedges LLP and Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP are representing retail chain Party City in its Chapter 11 case in the Southern District of Texas, as it plans to close its roughly 700 remaining stores and liquidate.
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January 03, 2025
Clark Hill Promotes Its Largest Membership Class
Clark Hill PLC has announced it broke a firm record when it kicked the new year off by elevating nearly 30 attorneys to the membership class, the largest group of promotions in the firm's history.
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January 02, 2025
Bankruptcy News You May Have Missed Over The Holiday
The Fifth Circuit sided with a group of lenders left out of a so-called uptier refinancing deal with mattress seller Serta Simmons, reversing a bankruptcy court's ruling in a closely watched case on liability management transactions; Purdue Pharma secured a one-month extension as its creditors and members of the Sackler family try to reach a settlement in mediation; and retail chain Big Lots reached an eleventh-hour deal to sell some of its stores and thwart a total liquidation.
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January 02, 2025
Celsius To Challenge $445M Claim Denial In FTX Bankruptcy
Celsius Network's post-Chapter 11 plan counsel filed an appeal on Thursday of a Delaware bankruptcy judge's denial of the cryptocurrency network's amended $444.6 million claim against fellow bankrupt crypto platform FTX.
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January 02, 2025
Catching Up With New Bankruptcy Case Action
Biora Therapeutics filed for Chapter 11 with its plan to sell assets to fund ongoing clinical development. Ohio-based compostable film producer Plastic Suppliers sought bankruptcy protection, citing challenges from EU sanctions, pandemic impacts and market shifts. Chinese state-owned construction firm CCA Construction filed for Chapter 11 with up to $10 billion in debt, driven by geopolitical tensions and a $1.6 billion litigation judgment.
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January 02, 2025
Lumio Says Ch. 11 Plan Releases In Line With Purdue Ruling
Solar panel provider Lumio Holdings LLC defended its Chapter 11 plan and disclosure documents Thursday, saying the claim releases included in the plan are consensual and do not run afoul of the U.S. Supreme Court's Purdue Pharma ruling, which barred nonconsensual releases.
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January 02, 2025
'Crush-Resistant' OxyContin Patents Fail At Fed. Circ.
In one of its last major moves in 2024, the Federal Circuit decided to reject an appeal from the bankrupt maker of OxyContin, which is trying to use patent laws to block the release of a competing "crush-resistant" generic painkiller.