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July 20, 2026
Jackson Walker LLP and the U.S. Trustee's Office, grappling with the aftermath of a romantic relationship between one of the firm's former partners and a then-bankruptcy judge, will not be able to delay pretrial proceedings to continue negotiating a possible settlement, a judge ruled Monday.
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July 20, 2026
Home shopping network QVC secured approval for its Chapter 11 plan, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP announced its choice for the new role of global restructuring chair, and watch designer and manufacturer E. Gluck obtained the go-ahead for its Chapter 11 liquidation plan.
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July 20, 2026
New York luxury property broker Ilan Bracha is under contract to buy a Manhattan mixed-use building in a bankruptcy for at least $8.6 million, after the death of a property owner in 2024 triggered a foreclosure action from a lender.
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July 20, 2026
Alea Holdings US Co., a unit of Bermuda-based insurance group Catalina Holdings, has filed for Chapter 11 protection in a Texas bankruptcy court with roughly $280 million in funded debt, saying it plans to use the case to push through a $20 million deal with a major creditor.
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July 17, 2026
A Federal Court judge has set aside statutory demands issued by investment firm RH Capital seeking repayment of $23 million owed by two 3D printing companies in receivership, calling the decision to serve the demands "disruptive" because a separate proceeding over the same loans was already underway in the same court.
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July 17, 2026
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including attorney reactions to the structural issues at the old Pfizer building in New York, a Big Law partner's view of manufactured housing in light of the new federal housing law, and new tactics in data center development as certain states clamp down.
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July 17, 2026
Summer camp holding company SIMAD has asked a New Jersey bankruptcy judge to sign off on new stalking horse offers totaling over $30 million to set the floor for a Chapter 11 auction of two of its New York summer camps.
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July 17, 2026
A health insurance brokerage will vie for confirmation of its Chapter 11 plan. A medical spa management firm will seek to convert its case to a liquidation. And a Texas bankruptcy judge will consider TGI Fridays' $220,000 settlement with claimants alleging they were fired improperly.
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July 17, 2026
The U.S. Trustee's Office has urged a Texas bankruptcy judge to reject MMA Law Firm's Chapter 11 liquidation plan, arguing that it improperly seeks to extend bankruptcy protections to nondebtor individuals, including the firm's founder, and requires estate funds to pay health insurance premiums for insiders.
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July 17, 2026
The Third Circuit ruled Friday that the bankrupt city of Chester, Pennsylvania, gets to keep income from a casino, a trash incinerator and other sources that secured its debt, finding that its creditors' liens on the revenues did not survive Chester's Chapter 9 filing.
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July 17, 2026
The Seventh Circuit has admonished but declined to sanction an attorney for a brief that included what a judge called "an astonishing number of erroneous and even hallucinated citations."
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July 17, 2026
Mid-cap restructuring attorneys are seeing more efficient cases both in and out of bankruptcy court, as rising costs and challenging macroeconomic factors force companies to move through reorganization processes as quickly as possible and do so with an increasing preference for bankruptcy alternatives, experts told Law360.
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July 17, 2026
A Texas bankruptcy judge on Friday conditionally approved Dallas hospital White Rock Medical Center LLC's disclosure statement for its Chapter 11 plan, after a consensus was reached among key creditor constituencies and as the debtor seeks an expedited path toward plan confirmation by September.
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July 17, 2026
A Delaware bankruptcy judge has granted the wind-down entity for golf course design group Nicklaus Cos. permission to seek creditors' votes on its Chapter 11 restructuring plan.
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July 16, 2026
The U.S. Trustee's Office obtained permission to put a watchdog in place in Spirit Airlines' bankruptcy, TGI Fridays pitched a $220,000 settlement in its bankruptcy, a medical spa management company asked to move into liquidation, and a Dallas hospital sought a speedy hearing on its plan disclosure.
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July 16, 2026
A group backed by Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav is making a $68 million stalking horse bid for Mohawk Day Camp, one of a collection of camps run by SIMAD Holdings that are up for sale in its Chapter 11 proceeding.
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July 16, 2026
Distressed debt investor Lynn Tilton's Patriarch Partners must pay roughly $2.4 million to the litigation trust for a trio of collateralized loan funds she founded in the 2000s, a New York federal judge has ruled, finding that Tilton's private equity firm breached a credit contract.
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July 16, 2026
Financial strain from the COVID-19 pandemic, mounting debt and an acute liquidity crisis led Pacifica Hospital of the Valley, a 231-bed hospital in the Los Angeles area, to seek Chapter 11 protection in Delaware.
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July 16, 2026
Michigan's attorney general has accused Climax Solar, its owner and the seven financial institutions that financed consumer purchases of the company's home solar systems of participating in a widespread solar finance scheme that promised customers big savings but resulted in long-term debt.
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July 16, 2026
Bankrupt furniture retailer American Signature Inc. has asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge for permission to sell its potential antitrust claims against Google for about $5.76 million, arguing that converting an uncertain litigation asset into immediate cash is the best way to maximize value for creditors while avoiding the costs and risks of pursuing the claims itself.
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July 16, 2026
A New York bankruptcy court Thursday approved the Chapter 11 plan of Excell Communications Inc., a telecommunications infrastructure developer, after the company's owner agreed to provide $1.3 million for unsecured creditors.
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July 16, 2026
A founder seeking over $100 million from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett over a transaction he says destroyed his insurance services company testified Thursday the law firm provided him no education on various words he wasn't familiar with in the deal.
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July 15, 2026
Federal appeals courts had wide-ranging successes and struggles during the U.S. Supreme Court's recently completed term: One had its best showing in years following its worst showing in years; one felt déjà vu after recently starting to find favor with the justices; and one saw its reputation for independence occupy a rare role in the Supreme Court spotlight.
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July 15, 2026
The California federal judge overseeing the bench trial on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's claim that Silicon Valley Bank's officers mismanaged its assets before the bank's 2023 collapse told the two sides on Wednesday to be prepared for interruptions to their closing arguments, saying "I won't be a silent jury."
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July 15, 2026
Unsecured creditors of soda ash and borate mining company Searles Valley Minerals have urged a Delaware bankruptcy judge to reject the debtor's Chapter 11 financing motion, saying the debtor-in-possession funding agreement would slight creditors and give away valuable assets to the debtor's parent.