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January 31, 2025
NJ Event Venue Hits Ch. 11 After $11M Loan Foreclosure
A New Jersey event venue under construction called The Chariot has filed for Chapter 11 protection in New Jersey after its bank took foreclosure action on its $11 million loan, with the business' co-owner saying the debtor launched the insolvency proceedings to get some "breathing room" as it works toward opening the sprawling restaurant and catering space.
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January 31, 2025
NY Nursing Home Sale Request Delayed By Union Dispute
A bankrupt 588-bed Long Island nursing home Friday postponed its request that a New York bankruptcy judge approve the sale of its facility while its union workers and its proposed buyer try to work out the terms of their future contract.
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January 30, 2025
Container Store Hopes Debt Restructuring Leads To Growth
After a quick trip through Chapter 11, The Container Store has emerged as a private company in the control of its lenders, but its changes were largely to its balance sheet rather than its operations.
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January 30, 2025
Agency In NJ Town Loses Retrial Bid In $26M Land-Taking Fight
A New Jersey federal judge has denied a redevelopment agency's bid for a new trial in a land-taking battle after a jury determined it should pay $25.6 million for a 22-acre former Michelin Tire & Rubber Co. factory, ruling that it failed to meet the high bar set to overturn a verdict.
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January 30, 2025
Meet The Attorneys Powering Battery Startup iM3NY's Ch. 11
IM3NY, a pre-revenue battery manufacturer, filed for bankruptcy in Delaware on Monday, looking to sell its assets by early April after it ran out of money and struggled to find investors needed for its New York factory. Guiding the startup is a team of Chipman Brown Cicero & Cole LLP lawyers.
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January 30, 2025
Pashman Stein Brings On Bankruptcy Pros In Delaware
Pashman Stein Walder Hayden PC has added two attorneys, including one from Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP, to continue to grow its bankruptcy, restructuring and creditors' rights practice in Delaware and beyond.
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January 30, 2025
Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Weil
Bankruptcy attorneys from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP steered hospital chain Steward Health Care's $9 billion bankruptcy and represented Scandinavian Airlines in its restructuring of $2 billion in debt across the U.S. and Sweden, earning a spot among the 2024 Law360 Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.
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January 30, 2025
Judge Stays NY Diocese Abuse Suits, Citing 2nd Circ. Ruling
A New York bankruptcy judge on Thursday agreed to stay sexual abuse claims filed under the state's Child Victims Act against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester, deciding that a Second Circuit ruling in 2022 makes clear that legal actions naming debtors as defendants are barred by bankruptcy's automatic stay.
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January 29, 2025
Cobalt Refiner Hits Ch. 11 With Plan To Cut $164M In Debt
A Texas bankruptcy judge Wednesday put the operator of one of the world's largest cobalt refineries on course for a March hearing on a Chapter 11 plan to shed nearly $164 million in debt as it deals with depressed cobalt prices it blames on Chinese oversupply.
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January 29, 2025
Calif. Trucking Group In Talks With Possible Ch. 11 Buyer
KAL Freight Inc. expects to file a Chapter 11 plan in February that may toggle between a sale of the business or another form of reorganization, lawyers for the trucking group told a Texas bankruptcy judge on Wednesday.
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January 29, 2025
Calif. Woman Denied Relief From Joint Tax Debt
A California woman is ineligible for relief from the tax liability she and her husband accrued due to incorrectly claimed retirement fund withdrawals, the U.S. Tax Court ruled Wednesday, upholding the Internal Revenue Service's decision to deny the relief.
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January 29, 2025
NY Battery Startup Gets Interim OK For Ch. 11 Loan
A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Wednesday gave interim permission for lithium-ion battery maker iM3NY to access part of a $17.5 million Chapter 11 financing from its senior lender, along with a host of other routine motions.
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January 29, 2025
Fla. Judge OKs Settlement In Energy Drink Co. Bankruptcy
A Florida federal bankruptcy judge on Wednesday approved a $3 million settlement in the bankruptcy case of Vital Pharmaceuticals Inc., the company that produces Bang Energy drinks, but declined to seal an agreement with an insurer over the costs of litigation in a Monster Energy Co. lawsuit.
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January 29, 2025
Rental Co. Urges NC Justices To Review Debt Deadline Ruling
A South Carolina real estate rental company urged the North Carolina Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn a lower court's decision that the company missed the window to enforce a debt because the automatic stay triggered by the debtor's bankruptcy filing didn't toll the statutory 10-year period for the company to renew the judgment.
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January 29, 2025
NY Archdiocese Wants Abuse Coverage Row Segmented
The Archdiocese of New York urged a New York state court to analyze coverage in phases for over 1,300 sex abuse lawsuits it and its affiliated entities face, arguing that because the "vast majority" of the underlying lawsuits are still being litigated, assessing coverage prematurely could be "highly prejudicial."
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January 29, 2025
JCPenney Says Jackson Walker Owes $1M For Judge's Affair
Jackson Walker LLP should have to return the more than $1 million paid to it by J.C. Penney given the firm's failure to disclose that one of its partners had a romantic relationship with the judge who had overseen the retailer's bankruptcy, the retailer's estate says in a new lawsuit in Texas federal court.
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January 29, 2025
Bankrupt MMA Law Seeks Hurricane Case Fees From 2 Firms
Bankrupt firm MMA Law has filed adversary suits against two law firms in Texas bankruptcy court seeking to recover fees related to work done on behalf of hurricane victim clients that it says belong to its bankruptcy estate.
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January 29, 2025
3rd Circ. Skeptical Of Philly Firm's Ch. 7 Case Fee Quest
The Third Circuit on Wednesday seemed skeptical that Spector Gaden Rosen Vinci PC properly informed a bankruptcy court of the billing and services provided to a couple in a Chapter 7 case in which a judge sanctioned the firm for violating disclosure rules, a matter that left one appeals judge "shocked" at the Philadelphia firm's alleged shortfall.
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January 29, 2025
Meet The Attys Guiding Biora's Ch. 11
Clinical-stage biotechnology company Biora has hired a team of lawyers from McDermott Will & Emery LLP to see it through its Chapter 11, which the debtor started to address funded debt obligations and sell assets to finance its ongoing clinical development.
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January 29, 2025
Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in 2024 carried two complex, crisis-driven Chapter 11s across the bankruptcy finish line, confirming plans for defunct crypto exchange FTX and the former operator of Silicon Valley Bank, earning it a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.
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January 29, 2025
Lowenstein Sandler Hit With Malpractice Suit From Dispensary
A cannabis dispensary facing a lawsuit from Lowenstein Sandler LLP for unpaid legal fees has fired back with a malpractice suit against the firm, alleging its attorneys helped the dispensary's former CEO in an attempted hostile takeover of the company.
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January 29, 2025
Katten Real Estate Leaders Suggest Prenegotiated Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy protection is usually a last resort for commercial real estate borrowers. But for a large distressed asset in a high-tax district, a prepackaged bankruptcy is a no-brainer, according to Katten partners Scott M. Vetri and Timothy G. Little. Here's how it would work.
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January 29, 2025
Milbank Adds Ex-Skadden Financial Restructuring Pro In NY
Milbank LLP has added a corporate restructuring attorney previously with Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP as a partner in its New York office, the firm has announced.
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January 29, 2025
Reed Smith Fee App Held For Eletson Probe
A New York bankruptcy judge Wednesday agreed to delay a hearing on Reed Smith's fees in the Eletson Holdings bankruptcy case while the reorganized debtor probes Reed Smith's alleged past ties with Eletson executives.
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January 29, 2025
Packaging Co. Plastic Suppliers Gets Initial OK For $16M Sale
A New Jersey bankruptcy judge on Wednesday conditionally approved packaging company Plastic Suppliers Inc.'s bid to sell its business for $16.4 million, saying a competitive auction proved the deal process had been conducted fairly.