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Meet The Attorneys In The Big Lots Ch. 11
Red Lobster Plan Confirmed, Big Lots Leads New Ch. 11s
Ch. 11 Check-In: Bally Parent's Plan In A Run For Home Plate
Meet The Attorneys In The Big Lots Ch. 11
Big Lots, a discount home goods retail chain that entered bankruptcy Monday with $556 million in secured debt, has assembled a team of lawyers from Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP to assist with its plans to shutter over 300 stores and sell the remaining business.
Red Lobster Plan Confirmed, Big Lots Leads New Ch. 11s
A string of new Chapter 11 bankruptcies were recently launched in Delaware, including a case from national discount home goods retailer Big Lots, which plans to pursue a going-concern sale. Meanwhile, seafood dining chain Red Lobster is on track to hand over the reins to a new group of owners, led by a secured lender, after the debtor secured confirmation of its Chapter 11 plan.
Ch. 11 Check-In: Bally Parent's Plan In A Run For Home Plate
The parent company of Bally Sports-branded regional sports networks is working its way toward a Chapter 11 plan that will keep its broadcast agreements with more than half of the professional sports teams that play in the National Hockey League, National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball, but finality is far from certain in the 18-month old cases.
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