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Delaware Bankruptcy Court provides further guidance on the contours of the common interest doctrine

We admit, discovery disputes rarely make for titillating blog posts. But a letter ruling issued towards the end of last year by Judge Shannon in Longview Power, LLC et al. v. First American Title Insurance Co. recently caught our eye.

USA, Delaware, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, Interest, Work-product doctrine, United States bankruptcy court
Momentous decision in Momentive Performance Materials Part IV: make-wholes and third party releases

This is the last entry in our four-part series analyzing Judge Drain’s widely read bench ruling issued on August 26, 2014 in connection with the confirmation hearing of Momentive Performance Materials and its affiliated debtors.

USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
Peering through the muck again: another court analyzes whether LLC operating agreements are property interests or executory contracts

We’ve previously focused here and here on the split in

USA, South Carolina, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
Supreme Court offers some financiers protection, creates new risks for others, in its decision on Sun Indalex, LLC v. United Steelworkers

The Supreme Court of Canada, in a decision that has implications for borrowers and lenders alike, particularly where pension funds are involved, has raised some new hurdles for the country’s banks and their business customers and, at the same time, has bolstered protection for lenders of last resort who finance insolvent companies.

The court’s decision in Sun Indalex Finance, LLC v. United Steelworkers, issued earlier this year, addresses critical questions in insolvency law regarding pension funds and DIP financing. 

Canada, Ontario, Banking, Employee Benefits & Pensions, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Blaney McMurtry LLP, Debtor, Liquidation, Debtor in possession, United Steelworkers, Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act 1985 (Canada)