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Ultra Petroleum Corp. Make-Whole Saga Continues

Creditors File Petition for Rehearing En Banc After Fifth Circuit Reversal and Remand of Bankruptcy Court Decision Awarding Creditors Make-Whole and Post-Petition Interest in Accordance with the Terms of the Underlying Agreement.

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USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, United States bankruptcy court
To Make-Whole … or Not

Fifth Circuit Holds that Disallowance of Claim Pursuant to the Bankruptcy Code Does Not Render Such Claim Impaired and Casts Doubt on Creditors’ Ability to Recover Make-Whole Amounts or Post-Petition Interest at the Default Contract Rate

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USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, Unsecured debt, Liquidated damages, United States bankruptcy court
What’s Yours is Mine and What’s Mine is For the Benefit of My Creditors: Bankruptcy Courts Remain Reluctant to Impose Constructive Trusts on Debtor Property

There is an inherent tension between the goals of bankruptcy law and the state law doctrine of constructive trust. A central tenet of bankruptcy policy is that similarly situated creditors should be treated equally: because an insolvent business or individual will not be able to pay all creditors in full, a proper bankruptcy system must provide as equitable a distribution to each of them as possible. Constructive trust law, on the other hand, works to the advantage of a single creditor – which always means the detriment of the others when everyone is competing for limited funds.

USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (Bryan Cave)