Large Cap
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May 15, 2025
Genesis Fights Jefferies Bid To Be Paid In Bitcoin Over USD
Failed cryptocurrency lender Genesis Global has asked a New York bankruptcy judge to throw out investment bank Jefferies' request for an order forcing the wind-down debtor to take back money it paid Jefferies and instead reimburse it in bitcoin, arguing it's too late for the bank to amend a claim that was filed "solely in dollars."
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May 15, 2025
Meet The Attys Helping Food Distributor Harvest In Ch. 11
Former wholesale food distributor Harvest Sherwood Food Distributors Inc. has tapped a team of lawyers from Sidley Austin LLP to see it through a Chapter 11 process the debtor plans to use to wind down its perishable products business and sell its assets.
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May 15, 2025
Whiteford Adds Montgomery McCracken Bankruptcy Ace
Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP has added a Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP bankruptcy attorney in Delaware to bolster its capacity to handle Chapter 11 and other bankruptcy proceedings.
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May 15, 2025
Office Snapshot: Richards Layton Upgrades Delaware Digs
Delaware law firm Richards Layton & Finger PA this week unveiled completed renovations to its 150,000-square-foot, multifloor office at One Rodney Square in Wilmington, where the firm's president said the revamped space is better suited to meet the needs of its staff and clients.
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May 14, 2025
Why Boy Scout Releases Were OK Despite Failing Purdue Test
The Third Circuit's rejection of challenges to third-party releases in the Boy Scouts of America's Chapter 11 plan may appear at odds with the U.S. Supreme Court's Purdue decision last year, but the panel said the already enacted plan can't be undone even if it couldn't pass muster today, experts told Law360.
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May 14, 2025
Alex Jones Can't Duck $1B Sandy Hook Payout During Appeal
Infowars host Alex Jones cannot avoid a $1.3 billion defamation judgment favoring the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre while he crafts an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in the hopes it accepts his final challenge to the record-breaking verdict, a Connecticut appeals court has ruled.
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May 14, 2025
Yellow Corp.'s $14M Terminal Sales Approved In Bankruptcy
A Delaware bankruptcy judge approved a request from defunct trucking company Yellow Corp. to sell a number of trucking terminals in the U.S. for a combined total of about $14 million.
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May 14, 2025
McGlinchey Stafford Adds Real Estate, Financial Services Pro
McGlinchey Stafford PLLC announced that the firm has added a real estate and financial services pro to its financial services litigation practice, who joins the firm following a five-year stint in private practice.
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May 14, 2025
Buddy's Franchisee Pushes Back On Holding Co. Ch. 11 Plan
The operator of 62 Buddy's Home Furnishings locations has objected to the assumption of its franchise agreements under the proposed Chapter 11 plan for the holding company that owns a suite of retailers including Vitamin Shoppe and Pet Supplies Plus, arguing the retail brand operator is in default on the agreements and therefore cannot assume the contracts.
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May 14, 2025
Reed Smith Can't Duck Out Of Eletson Ch. 11, Judge Says
A New York bankruptcy judge has rejected Reed Smith LLP's effort to withdraw its representation of one of the parties vying for control of international shipping group Eletson Holdings, ruling the law firm's bid to end its apparently limited work for the company's pre-Chapter 11 shareholders while still counseling them in related matters was improper.
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May 14, 2025
A&O Shearman Adds Ex-Schulte Roth Restructuring Atty
A&O Shearman has added a restructuring attorney previously with Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP as a partner in New York, the firm announced Wednesday.
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May 13, 2025
Crypto Platform's Ex-Brass Plead Guilty To $150M Fraud
Two former executives behind bankrupt cryptocurrency investment platform Cred Inc. pled guilty Tuesday in California federal court to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, admitting they gave customers "an unreasonably positive" portrayal of the business ahead of a collapse that prosecutors say wiped out up to $150 million in customer crypto.
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May 13, 2025
Magistrate Judge Cuts Defendants In J&J Talc Unit Fraud Suit
A New Jersey magistrate judge on Tuesday dropped a collection of defendants from a class action brought by cancer patients alleging that Johnson & Johnson's maneuvers to settle thousands of tort claims through Chapter 11 involved fraud.
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May 13, 2025
Insurers Challenge Avon's Ch. 11 Plan Voting Procedures
Insurers in the Chapter 11 case of cosmetics seller Avon Products Inc. have objected to vote solicitation procedures proposed by the debtor, condemning a plan for certain talc claims to be temporarily recognized for voting purposes.
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May 13, 2025
Lack Of Fundamental Change Led To Rite Aid's Ch. 22 Case
Pharmacy chain Rite Aid commenced its second Chapter 11 case since 2023 last week, falling back into bankruptcy so soon because its failure to make fundamental operational changes the first time around led to predictably tightfisted vendors who imposed restrictive credit terms that worsened the company's liquidity problems, experts told Law360.
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May 13, 2025
Catholic Friars' Insurer Wants Info On Abuse Claims Hack
An insurer for a bankrupt group of Catholic friars facing child sexual abuse claims said Tuesday it wants access to information on a data breach at a consulting firm retained by a committee representing the claimants in this and multiple other Catholic organization bankruptcies.
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May 13, 2025
3rd Circ. Upholds Most Of Boy Scouts' Ch. 11 Plan
The Third Circuit upheld the bulk of the Boy Scouts of America's Chapter 11 plan to deal with thousands of childhood sex abuse claims, but agreed Tuesday with one objecting insurer that its rights were impermissibly altered under the plan.
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May 13, 2025
Catching Up With New Bankruptcy Case Action
Weight loss business WeightWatchers entered Chapter 11 in Delaware, as did medical technology company Accelerate Diagnostics Inc. and California-based biotechnology company Synthego Corp. Here are the week's new bankruptcy cases.
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May 13, 2025
Democracy Forward Picks Up 4 More Ex-DOJ Attys
The legal advocacy group Democracy Forward has brought on four former U.S. Department of Justice litigators, adding to a string of hires the organization has made from the federal government as it takes on the Trump administration in court.
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May 12, 2025
Rite Aid Back In Ch. 11, Tupperware Gets OK To Liquidate
Drugstore chain Rite Aid reentered bankruptcy less than a year after its earlier reorganization plan was approved, and received a bankruptcy court's permission to conduct asset sales. Food storage container maker Tupperware Brands Corp. received court approval for its Chapter 11 liquidation plan. And a Washington University law professor was named the consumer privacy ombudsman in 23andMe's Chapter 11 case.
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May 12, 2025
Unions Assert WARN Claims In Yellow Bankruptcy Appeal
The Teamsters and the International Association of Machinists are challenging a bankruptcy court's finding that Yellow Corp. is not liable for failing to tell 22,000 union workers they were about to lose their jobs because the company was folding, asking a Delaware federal judge to reverse the ruling.
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May 12, 2025
Crypto Analysis Biz Says Celsius Can't Shift Fraud Blame
Chainalysis Inc. is asking a New York federal judge to throw out a lawsuit brought against it by defunct cryptocurrency platform Celsius Network, saying Celsius is trying to deflect the blame for fraud perpetrated by the company and its executives.
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May 12, 2025
Will Justices Finally Rein In Universal Injunctions?
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to address for the first time Thursday the propriety of universal injunctions, a tool federal judges have increasingly used to broadly halt presidential orders and policy initiatives, and whose validity has haunted the high court's merits and emergency dockets for more than a decade.
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May 12, 2025
Food Distributor Harvest Can Tap Reworked $104M Ch. 11 DIP
A Texas bankruptcy judge on Monday gave interim approval to Harvest Sherwood Food Distributors Inc.'s $104 million Chapter 11 financing, allowing it to access $5 million of new funds after it shifted a debt rollup that drew objections.
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May 12, 2025
Forever 21 Says No Buyer In Sight, Liquidation Expected
A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Monday gave Forever 21 permission to send its Chapter 11 plan out for a creditor vote after the fast-fashion retailer said it had not found a going-concern buyer and will likely be liquidating its remaining assets.
Expert Analysis
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Atty Well-Being Efforts Ignore Root Causes Of The Problem
The legal industry is engaged in a critical conversation about lawyers' mental health, but current attorney well-being programs primarily focus on helping lawyers cope with the stress of excessive workloads, instead of examining whether this work culture is even fundamentally compatible with lawyer well-being, says Jonathan Baum at Avenir Guild.
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Parsing Justices' Toss Of Purdue's Controversial Ch. 11 Plan
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent nixing of OxyContin manufacturer Purdue Pharma's Chapter 11 proposal prevents the Sackler family from settling thousands of civil opioid lawsuits without the consent of all of the plaintiffs, and holds profound implications for bankruptcy cases, say attorneys at MoloLamken.
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No Matter The Purdue Ruling, Mass Tort Reform Is Needed
The U.S. Supreme Court will soon issue its opinion in the bankruptcy of Purdue Pharma LP, and regardless of the outcome, it’s clear legal and policy reforms are needed to address the next mass tort, says William Organek at Baruch College.
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How Associates Can Build A Professional Image
As hybrid work arrangements become the norm in the legal industry, early-career attorneys must be proactive in building and maintaining a professional presence in both physical and digital settings, ensuring that their image aligns with their long-term career goals, say Lana Manganiello at Equinox Strategy Partners and Estelle Winsett at Estelle Winsett Professional Image Consulting.
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Yellow Corp. Lease Assumption Shows Landlord Protections
Yellow Corp.’s recent filing of a motion to assume unexpired leases is a helpful reminder to practitioners to maintain a long-term approach about what is most beneficial for an estate and to not let a debtor's short-term cash position dictate business decisions, says Kyle Arendsen at Squire Patton.
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Insurers Have A Ch. 11 Voice Following High Court Ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in Truck Insurance Exchange v. Kaiser Gypsum — which reaffirmed a broad definition of "party in interest" — will give insurers, particularly in mass tort Chapter 11 bankruptcies, more opportunity to protect their interests and identify problems with reorganization plans, says George Singer at Holland & Hart.
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Considerations For Cooperation Contracts In Loan Trades
Significant challenges to settling trades can arise when lenders of syndicated bank loans enter into defense-oriented cooperation agreements, which are growing in popularity, but working through these issues on the front end of a trade can save hours down the road, says Robert Waldner at Crowell & Moring.
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Firms Must Rethink How They Train New Lawyers In AI Age
As law firms begin to use generative artificial intelligence to complete lower-level legal tasks, they’ll need to consider new ways to train summer associates and early-career attorneys, keeping in mind the five stages of skill acquisition, says Liisa Thomas at Sheppard Mullin.
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Think Like A Lawyer: Always Be Closing
When a lawyer presents their case with the right propulsive structure throughout trial, there is little need for further argument after the close of evidence — and in fact, rehashing it all may test jurors’ patience — so attorneys should consider other strategies for closing arguments, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.
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NY Combined Hearing Guidelines Can Shorten Ch. 11 Timeline
The Southern District of New York’s recently adopted guidelines on combining the processes for Chapter 11 plan confirmation and disclosure statement approval may shorten the Chapter 11 timeline for companies and reduce associated costs, say Robert Drain and Moshe Jacob at Skadden.
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Bankruptcy Judges Can Justly Resolve Mass Tort Cases
Johnson & Johnson’s recent announcement of a prepackaged reorganization plan for its talc unit highlights that Chapter 11 is a continually evolving living statute that can address new types of problems with reorganization, value and job preservation, and just treatment for creditors, says Kenneth Rosen at Ken Rosen Advisors PC.
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A Healthier Legal Industry Starts With Emotional Intelligence
The legal profession has long been plagued by high rates of mental health issues, in part due to attorneys’ early training and broader societal stereotypes — but developing one’s emotional intelligence is one way to foster positive change, collectively and individually, says attorney Esperanza Franco.
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11th Circ. Ruling May Foreshadow Ch. 15 Clashes
The Eleventh Circuit's recent decision in In re: Talal Qais Abdulmunem Al Zawawi has introduced a split from the Second Circuit regarding whether debtors in foreign proceedings must have a domicile, calling attention to the understudied nature of Chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code, say attorneys at Cleary.