First Brands Group Holdings, LLC
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November 12, 2025
First Brands Loses Bid To Extend Ex-CEO Asset Freeze
A Texas bankruptcy judge declined Wednesday to extend a temporary freeze on the assets of First Brands' former CEO, finding that while the auto parts company's allegations of fraud are serious, the threat of irreparable injury was "speculative and not imminent."
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November 10, 2025
First Brands Pushes To Extend Ex-CEO Asset Freeze
A Texas bankruptcy judge said Monday he will rule this week on First Brands Group's request to extend a freeze on its former CEO's assets as the troubled auto parts company seeks to recover hundreds of millions of dollars it says the executive misappropriated to pay for lavish houses and a celebrity chef.
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November 07, 2025
Judge Fears FTX-Size Probe In First Brands Ch. 11
A Texas bankruptcy judge signaled Friday that the investigation required in the bankruptcy case of auto parts maker First Brands might be as complex as that of FTX Trading Ltd. as he fielded calls for a Chapter 11 examiner.
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November 06, 2025
First Brands Strikes Deal With Creditors On Ch. 11 Financing
Auto parts company First Brands told a Texas bankruptcy judge on Thursday it had reached a deal to resolve unsecured creditor objections to its $5.2 billion Chapter 11 financing package by reducing the rollup of litigation proceeds.
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November 05, 2025
First Brands, Creditors Exchange Blows Over DIP Bid
The unsecured creditors committee for bankrupt auto parts company First Brands objected to the debtor's bid for final postpetition financing approval, saying the proposed arrangement almost solely benefits the lenders and would harm the estate. The debtor and its ad hoc lender group each came to the defense of the request.
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November 04, 2025
First Brands Accuses Ex-CEO Of 'Brazen' Theft Of Millions
Bankrupt auto parts company First Brands has sued its founder and ex-CEO, saying he "lined his pockets" with hundreds of millions and possibly billions of dollars in company money, draining its accounts and partially causing its bankruptcy.
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October 31, 2025
Fraud Claims Spur Dismissal Bid In First Brands SPV Cases
Lenders to special purpose vehicle entities tied to auto parts maker First Brands Group asked a Texas bankruptcy judge to dismiss the vehicles' Chapter 11 cases or appoint a trustee, arguing that the entities' managers were improperly replaced and their funds were to be kept apart from First Brands' assets.
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October 21, 2025
Meet The Attys Advising First Brands' Creditors Committee
The official committee of unsecured creditors in car parts group First Brands' Chapter 11 has retained a dozen attorneys from Cole Schotz PC and Brown Rudnick LLP to represent it in the case.
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October 20, 2025
LifeScan To Cut $1.7B Debt, Reed Smith DQ'd From Eletson
A bankruptcy trust for Rite Aid went after Walmart to defray the costs of defending opioid lawsuits. A blood glucose monitor manufacturer fought for confirmation of a reorganization plan that would cut $1.7 billion in debt. The long saga of the Eletson bankruptcy continued after a district court found the prebankruptcy ownership of the company had no legal existence and therefore no right to counsel.
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October 16, 2025
US Trustee Pushes For Examiner In First Brands' Ch. 11
The Office of the U.S. Trustee has urged the swift appointment of an examiner to probe car parts group First Brands' Texas bankruptcy, echoing a creditor's call for an independent investigation into over $2 billion in unaccounted funds.