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March 14, 2025
Reed Smith To Fight Removal In $102M Shipping Award Suit
A New York federal judge has paused his order removing Reed Smith LLP as counsel for the former owners of reorganized international shipping group Eletson Holdings in litigation over a $102 million arbitral award while the BigLaw firm appeals the decision to the Second Circuit.
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March 14, 2025
Under The Radar: Bankruptcy News You May Have Missed
Avon's international unit asked a bankruptcy judge to extend the window during which only it can propose a Chapter 11 plan, consulting firm Azzur Group Holdings asked the Delaware bankruptcy court to approve its Chapter 11 plan disclosures and allow it to hold a vote, and Philadelphia's University of the Arts proposed selling a property for nearly $7 million. These are some of the bankruptcy stories you may have missed in the last week.
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March 14, 2025
Three Arrows Beats FTX To Get $1.5B Bankruptcy Claim
The liquidators of failed cryptocurrency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital have prevailed in a dispute with FTX Trading Ltd. over the allowance of a $1.53 billion bankruptcy claim, with a Delaware judge deciding to grant Three Arrows' bid to change its original claim despite FTX asserting that the move was made in bad faith.
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March 14, 2025
Mitel Networks' 5-Year Journey Into Bankruptcy
Business telecommunications company Mitel Networks hit bankruptcy earlier this month after a societal shift in working conditions began five years prior with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to its court filings.
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March 14, 2025
Wellpath Gets OK For Vote On Ch. 11 Reorganization Plan
A Texas bankruptcy judge on Friday gave prison healthcare business Wellpath permission to go ahead with a vote on its Chapter 11 plan after a claimants' committee said it would reserve objections for the plan confirmation hearing.
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March 14, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Davis Polk, Paul Weiss
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Mallinckrodt PLC and Endo Inc. combine, Rocket Cos. buys Redfin, and Endo divests its international pharmaceuticals business to Knight Therapeutics Inc.
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March 13, 2025
Judge To Weigh Doc Release In San Francisco Diocese Ch. 11
A California bankruptcy judge on Thursday said he wouldn't immediately decide whether to make public two documents the creditors committee in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco's Chapter 11 case wants to allow the public to see.
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March 13, 2025
Judge Won't Toss $35M Ch. 11 Bank Fee Clawback Lawsuit
A Delaware bankruptcy judge has denied a summary judgment bid to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that an $1.8 billion loan set medical testing company Millennium Laboratories on course for its 2015 Chapter 11.
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March 13, 2025
Bankruptcy Watchdog Ouster Crosses Into Uncharted Waters
The recent removal of the head of the U.S. Trustee's Office may be sending the previously nonpolitical bankruptcy watchdog into unknown territory, causing concerns in the legal space.
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March 13, 2025
Sandy Hook Families Oppose Revived Infowars Sale Bid
Families of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting have urged a Texas bankruptcy judge to block an Alex Jones-affiliated company's revived bid to buy his Infowars platform, saying it will cause delays in the more than three-year-old related bankruptcy cases.
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March 13, 2025
6 Firms Steer $6.7B Mallinckrodt, Endo Pharma Merger
Six law firms are guiding a $6.7 billion merger between Ireland's Mallinckrodt PLC and Pennsylvania-based Endo Inc. on a deal announced Thursday that the companies said will create a global pharmaceutical industry leader with projected 2025 revenues of $3.6 billion.
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March 13, 2025
Senate Stablecoin Bill Advances With Democrats Divided
The Republican-led U.S. Senate Banking Committee advanced its stablecoin framework Thursday with the help of Democrats who broke from ranking member Sen. Elizabeth Warren's opposition, while a separate bill on what is being called debanking passed along party lines.
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March 13, 2025
Alex Jones' Sandy Hook Atty Suspended Over Info Release
Former Alex Jones attorney Norm Pattis will be suspended from practicing law for two weeks, a Connecticut judge has ruled, capping a three-year ethics saga that started when Pattis asked an associate to send Sandy Hook families' medical records to the Infowars host's Texas bankruptcy lawyer.
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March 12, 2025
Spirit Airlines Release Ruling Is Another Boost For Opt-Outs
A New York bankruptcy judge's decision last week to approve a contentious form of third-party release in Spirit Airlines' Chapter 11 case signals that courts are increasingly comfortable finding that a creditor's silence can be used to establish their consent, an issue hotly debated in the months since the U.S. Supreme Court's Purdue Pharma ruling.
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March 12, 2025
Mo. Court Finds Exclusion Bars Mallinckrodt Opioid Coverage
A group of insurers have no coverage obligations under certain policies issued to drugmaker Mallinckrodt as a trust created from the company's first bankruptcy seeks to resolve underlying opioid claims with the help of insurance benefits, a Missouri state court ruled, finding a "your products" exclusion applicable.
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March 12, 2025
Willkie Beats Malpractice Suit Over ERISA Ch. 11 Advice
An Ohio federal judge affirmed Tuesday a bankruptcy court's decision tossing legal malpractice claims filed by a coal company executive's estate against Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, rejecting the estate's arguments it sufficiently alleged Willkie was grossly negligent in failing to warn the estate about a potential $6.5 billion ERISA liability.
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March 12, 2025
Northvolt's Ch. 11 Dismissal Possible After Swedish Filing
Bankrupt electric vehicle battery maker Northvolt AB told a Texas bankruptcy judge that its Chapter 11 case is possibly headed for dismissal after its parent company filed an insolvency case in Swedish court early Wednesday.
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March 12, 2025
HSBC Says Madoff Trustee Claims Were Filed Years Too Late
Units of the London-based bank HSBC say that more than $324 million of claims brought by the trustee overseeing the liquidation of Bernie Madoff's bankruptcy estate should be thrown out because they were filed more than a decade late.
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March 12, 2025
US Trustee Seeks Sanctions Against NY Lawyer
The federal bankruptcy watchdog asked a New York judge Wednesday to sanction a lawyer who allegedly concealed her conflicts of interest while representing a debtor and a buyer in two separate Chapter 11 cases.
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March 12, 2025
Ex-Eletson Owners Face $5K Daily Fine For Ch. 11 Challenge
A New York bankruptcy judge on Wednesday ordered the prebankruptcy shareholders of Greek shipping group Eletson Holdings to end their opposition to overseas recognition of the company's Chapter 11 plan or pay $5,000 a day in fines.
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March 12, 2025
2nd Circ. Upholds Sanctions In Chinese Billionaire's Ch. 11
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday torpedoed an appeal from the daughter of bankrupt Chinese exile Miles Guo — also known as Ho Won Kwok — and her attorney seeking to overturn a nearly $83,400 discovery sanction, saying the contempt ruling was merited.
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March 12, 2025
Fox Rothschild Hires Lewis Brisbois Litigator In DC
A trial attorney who spent the past four years at Lewis Brisbois, has moved his practice to Fox Rothschild LLP and told Law360 Pulse in an interview Wednesday that his new role continued a family tradition of Fox Rothschild attorneys stretching back 100 years.
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March 11, 2025
Catching Up With New Bankruptcy Case Action
A business automation firm, a dermatology technology maker and a telecommunications business software group all filed for Chapter 11 with debt-for-equity swap plans. A Tex-Mex restaurant chain filed for Chapter 11 in the face of macroeconomic pressures. An energy industry engineering firm filed for bankruptcy after trade debt bogged down merger or sale efforts. A Missouri car transporter is looking to liquidate in Chapter 7, and two real estate companies filed for Chapter 11 in New York.
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March 11, 2025
Spirit Airlines Judge Says Opt-Out Releases Well Explained
A New York bankruptcy judge explained his February decision to approve third-party releases in budget air carrier Spirit Airlines' Chapter 11 plan, saying an opt-out mechanism of the releases is enough to establish the consent of creditors, given how thoroughly the process was discussed and the number of people who did opt out.
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March 11, 2025
Russia Says Guinea Ruling Backs Dismissal In $5B Award Suit
A recent D.C. federal court decision supports the Russian Federation's bid to dismiss an arbitration enforcement action stemming from a tax dispute with Yukos Capital Ltd., Russia told the same court.
Expert Analysis
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Diamond Sports Cases Shed Light On Executory Contracts
Recent Texas bankruptcy cases involving telecast fees payable by Diamond Sports to certain Major League Baseball teams provide a window into the dynamic relationship that can develop between debtors and counterparties under some executory contracts, say Joseph Badtke-Berkow and Robin Spigel at Allen & Overy.
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Playing In A Rock Cover Band Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Performing in a classic rock cover band has driven me to hone several skills — including focus, organization and networking — that have benefited my professional development, demonstrating that taking time to follow your muse outside of work can be a boon to your career, says Michael Gambro at Cadwalader.
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The Pop Culture Docket: Judge Espinosa On 'Lincoln Lawyer'
The murder trials in Netflix’s “The Lincoln Lawyer” illustrate the stark contrast between the ethical high ground that fosters and maintains the criminal justice system's integrity, and the ethical abyss that can undermine it, with an important reminder for all legal practitioners, say Judge Adam Espinosa and Andrew Howard at the Colorado 2nd Judicial District Court.
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Balancing Justice And Accountability In Opioid Bankruptcies
As Rite Aid joins other pharmaceutical companies in pursuing bankruptcy following the onslaught of state and federal litigation related to the opioid epidemic, courts and the country will have to reconcile the ideals of economic justice and accountability against the U.S. Constitution’s promise of a fresh start through bankruptcy, says Monique Hayes at DGIM Law.
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SVB Bankruptcy Case Raises Asset Control Questions
The initial disputes in Silicon Valley Bank's bankruptcy case between the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the debtor over tax refunds and deposits are likely to signal the rekindling of old battles for limited assets last fought during the Great Recession, say Jeffrey Rothleder and Maura McIntyre at Squire Patton.