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.
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.
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.