October 16, 2017
Comvest Partners pushed back Monday against asset-stripping allegations from bankrupt Haggen Holdings LLC's unsecured creditors committee, arguing at the start of trial on the issue that the grocery chain's collapsed expansion was simply a risk that failed and not an engineered fraud to part creditors from their assets.
June 08, 2017
A Delaware bankruptcy judge approved a $2.7 million settlement agreement on Wednesday in the Chapter 11 proceedings of debtor Haggen Holdings LLC, a grocery store operator that filed for protection about a year after it acquired 146 stores from Albertsons LLC.
June 02, 2017
A Delaware bankruptcy judge concluded Thursday that the companies holding the property acquired by debtor Haggen Holdings LLC, a grocery store operator, in a 2014 deal can use proceeds from real estate sales to defend against an adversary proceeding by the unsecured creditors, saying that reading is consistent with the plain language of an order the parties negotiated.
May 12, 2017
The companies holding the property that Haggen Holding LLC acquired in a 2014 merger hit back Thursday in Delaware bankruptcy court against claims they are violating a court order by using proceeds from real estate sales to defend against an adversary proceeding by the unsecured creditors, saying the order allows it and that the creditors are trying to undermine their defense.
April 28, 2017
Bankrupt grocery chain Haggen Holding LLC's unsecured creditors accused the chain Thursday in Delaware bankruptcy court of violating a court order by using proceeds from real estate sales to defend against the creditors' adversary proceeding over its real estate dealings.
September 12, 2016
Snack giant Frito-Lay said Friday that $36,000 of goods delivered on the 20th day before grocery chain Haggen Holding LLC's bankruptcy petition are priority expenses, not general unsecured debt as the grocer claims using a different formula to count the days, in an objection in Delaware bankruptcy court.
September 08, 2016
The official committee of unsecured creditors in the Haggen Holdings LLC bankruptcy case launched an adversary action late Wednesday accusing the Pacific Northwest grocery chain's former principal stakeholder, Comvest Partners, of a "Machiavellian scheme" to strip assets from the company before it filed for Chapter 11 protection last year.
March 29, 2016
A Delaware bankruptcy court Tuesday approved Albertsons' purchase of 29 stores from bankrupt Pacific Northwest grocery chain Haggen, in a $106 million transaction that has the buyer keeping the stores open and hiring current staff under existing collective bargaining agreements.
March 14, 2016
Grocery chain Albertsons said Monday it received antitrust approval to go ahead with its $106 million bid to buy bankrupt rival Haggen's "core stores" in the Pacific Northwest, days after the debtor said it was cancelling its auction and deeming Albertsons to have the top offer.
March 04, 2016
Grocery store chain Haggen asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge on Thursday for a 90-day extension of its exclusivity period to file a reorganizing plan in its Chapter 11 proceedings, saying that it has been too busy selling off some of its stores to focus on the plan.