A California Catholic diocese asked for a court's approval for its Chapter 11 plan. Creditors of a Nevada magnesium mining operation got the liquidation plan they proposed confirmed. A summer camp chain received permission to use its cash to open for the year. And Georgia-Pacific's asbestos spinoff told a court that more Chapter 11 filings may be on the way.
A team of attorneys from Goodwin Procter LLP and Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP are leading home decor and textile company Simply Interior through its Chapter 11 case.
Of the many mysteries still surrounding the tangled case of bankrupt summer camp operator SIMAD Holdings Ltd., one of the biggest, at least to those interested in business financing, is why such a large company would turn so sharply toward merchant cash advances — a method of last-ditch funding normally used by desperate small businesses.