Large Cap
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May 28, 2024
Express Inc. DIP Loan Draws Fire From Unsecured Creditors
Express Inc.'s unsecured creditors objected to final approval of the struggling retailer's $35 million debtor-in-possession financing, arguing that the loan package is not only unfair, but shouldn't be locked in before the case settles on either a going-concern sale or a liquidation.
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May 28, 2024
Meet The Attorneys In Dynata's Ch. 11
A team of attorneys from Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP are guiding data provider and market research company Dynata through its Chapter 11 restructuring.
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May 28, 2024
FTX Attys Cleared, Alex Jones' Reckoning, Modell's Deal
A report found that FTX counsel Sullivan & Cromwell was not involved in the pre-bankruptcy fraud at the cryptocurrency exchange, Alex Jones and his InfoWars podcast business are facing a June 15 deadline for progress in their Chapter 11 cases, and a former bankruptcy judge was accused of trying to force a false narrative tied to his romantic relationship with an attorney.
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May 28, 2024
OCC's Hsu Says More Banks May Need Crisis Playbook Rules
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's acting chief Michael Hsu called for potentially subjecting more banks to recovery planning standards that currently kick in at the $250 billion asset size threshold, floating it as another possible regulatory response to last year's regional bank failures.
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May 28, 2024
Ex-NRA CFO Settles NY AG Suit Before Phase-Two Trial
The National Rifle Association's former chief financial officer has reached a settlement with the New York attorney general's office ahead of the second phase of a trial over claims the group and its executives misused donor money, among other alleged misconduct.
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May 28, 2024
Snubbed ConvergeOne Creditors Appeal Ch. 11 Plan
A group of ConvergeOne lenders that claim the information technology company's reorganization plan unfairly advantages rival creditors has appealed a Texas bankruptcy judge's recent ruling approving the Chapter 11 deal, asking a district court to stay the decision while it challenges what it called an "exclusive" rights offering underlying the plan.
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May 28, 2024
Beasley Allen, J&J Trade Barbs Over DQ Bid In Talc Litigation
Johnson & Johnson and the Beasley Allen Law Firm have accused each other by turns of "gamesmanship" and "unscrupulous conduct" in New Jersey courts in a fight over whether the firm should be disqualified from talcum powder litigation for allegedly collaborating in secret with a former J&J outside counsel.
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May 28, 2024
FTX Exec Who Acted As Bankman-Fried 'Tool' Gets 7½ Years
A Manhattan federal judge hit cryptocurrency finance expert and former FTX executive Ryan Salame with a 7½-year sentence Tuesday for duping a bank to authorize $1.5 billion of illegal transfers and making fraudulent campaign contributions for the exchange's convicted founder, Sam Bankman-Fried.
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May 24, 2024
Biden's Judicial Impact And What's Left On The Wish List
President Joe Biden secured confirmation of his 200th federal judge Wednesday and has transformed the judiciary by picking more women and people of color than any other president. But the upcoming election season could derail his hopes of confirming many more judges.
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May 24, 2024
Bally Sports Parent Pushes Back Ch. 11 Confirmation Hearing
The parent company of the Bally Sports regional sports networks asked a Texas bankruptcy judge to move back the timetable for confirmation of its Chapter 11 plan by a month, saying it needs more time to reach broadcast rights deals.
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May 24, 2024
Sullivan & Cromwell Cleared Of Any Misconduct In FTX Report
The Chapter 11 examiner appointed in the bankruptcy case of fallen cryptocurrency exchange FTX Trading absolved debtor law firm Sullivan & Cromwell of any conflicts or misconduct related to the business's collapse and restructuring, recommending limited further investigations into discrete matters.
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May 24, 2024
Exiled Chinese Businessman Is No $1B Fraudster, Jury Told
Exiled Chinese businessman and purported billionaire Guo Wengui ran legitimate companies in support of a broad movement that opposed the Chinese Communist Party, his attorney told a Manhattan federal jury Friday, rather than what prosecutors say was a multifaceted $1 billion fraud.
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May 24, 2024
Rite Aid Given Until Tuesday To File Ch. 11 Schedule
A New Jersey bankruptcy judge on Friday instructed Rite Aid to file a proposed schedule for its Chapter 11 plan confirmation process by Tuesday, after Johnson & Johnson accused the pharmacy business of dragging its feet in responding to an objection to its reorganization plan.
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May 24, 2024
Healthcare REIT Nabs $800M Despite Tenant Turbulence
Medical Properties Trust Inc. announced Friday that the real estate investment trust has secured a £631 million ($804 million) financing from a group of investors led by real estate investment firm Song Capital, in a deal led by Goodwin Procter LLP and Slaughter and May.
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May 24, 2024
Biden Urges 1st Circ. To Find Debt Cap Challenge Moot
The Biden administration asked the First Circuit to affirm a finding that a government workers' union lacks standing to challenge the debt ceiling's constitutionality and that its case was further rendered moot by passage of a deal to suspend the spending limit until January.
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May 23, 2024
ConvergeOne Defeats 'Law Review Article' Objection To Reorg
Information technology company ConvergeOne won a Texas bankruptcy judge's blessing Thursday to cut more than $1 billion of debt under a reorganization deal that a group of senior lenders said would unlawfully advantage rival creditors.
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May 23, 2024
FTX Judge Declines To Undo Ch. 11 Digital Claim Estimation
The judge overseeing the Chapter 11 case of cryptocurrency exchange FTX Trading Ltd. on Thursday denied a request to vacate an earlier ruling allowing the debtor to estimate the claims of creditors holding digital assets based on their petition date value, saying the party seeking to undo the order had not provided any new evidence to justify the action.
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May 23, 2024
99 Cents Only Gets OK To Sell Stores For $170M In Ch. 11
Discount retail chain 99 Cents Only on Thursday got the green light of a Delaware bankruptcy judge to sell off 44 lots of its assets for a combined price of $170 million as it moves towards a wind-down.
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May 23, 2024
Dynata Gets Initial OK For Ch. 11 Loan, July Plan Hearing
Data provider and market research company Dynata Thursday received interim approval from a Delaware bankruptcy judge to tap into $31.5 million in Chapter 11 financing, a step company counsel says sets it on the road to emerge from bankruptcy by early July.
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May 23, 2024
Who's Who On The NJ Bankruptcy Bench, Part 2
Chief U.S. District Judge Renée Marie Bumb said last week that New Jersey saw the second-most Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings in the nation over the last year — up from sixth the year before — with 16% growth in overall filings and a 133% increase in Chapter 11 filings.
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May 23, 2024
Ex-Judge Pushed False Narrative On Atty Romance, Firm Says
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David R. Jones of Texas, who resigned last year after his secret relationship with a Jackson Walker LLP partner was revealed, attempted to head off rumors about the relationship by asking the firm to file a false, partial disclosure in 2022, the firm alleged.
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May 23, 2024
J&J Loses Expedited Bid For Beasley Allen Docs In Talc MDL
Johnson & Johnson has lost its bid in New Jersey federal court to have the Beasley Allen Law Firm quickly produce documents related to what J&J said seems to be an "intentional effort" by the firm to "bias the vote" against a proposed $6.5 billion reorganization plan for its talc subsidiary.
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May 23, 2024
Alex Jones Atty Escapes Suspension, For Now
The Connecticut Appellate Court on Thursday threw out the six-month suspension of Norm Pattis, the lead attorney in Infowars host Alex Jones' Sandy Hook Elementary School defamation trial, ordering new proceedings against the attorney for supervising the transmission of the victims' confidential records to other Jones lawyers.
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May 22, 2024
Cancer Patients Target J&J Talc Unit's Asset Shuffles
Cancer patients who have sued Johnson & Johnson alleging that its talcum powder caused their illness alleged Wednesday that the company has tried to intentionally prevent tort victims from getting their day in court through a scheme of fraudulent corporate transactions.
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May 22, 2024
1st Circ. Affirms UBS Win In Puerto Rico Pension Fight
The First Circuit said public pensioners in Puerto Rico can't advance their claims that UBS Financial Services illegally underwrote $3 billion in bonds, ruling that the island's financial restructuring plan transferred the right to those claims to a special committee.