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Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures: Delaware Bankruptcy Court Doesn’t Answer in Syntax-Brillian, Denying Motion to Remove Trustee

The Bankruptcy Code’s priority scheme provides that the shareholders generally cannot receive anything on account of their investment until all secured, priority and unsecured creditors are paid in full.

USA, Delaware, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
Backstage Rider Demands: 10 Bottles of Dom Perignon, M&Ms (Absolutely No Brown Ones!), Two Ice Cream Cakes, and a DIP Carve Out

While rockstars such as Iggy Pop and Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe were infamous for outlandish rider requests while on tour, perhaps nobody is more notorious for their demands of concert promoters than Van Halen.

USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Media & Entertainment, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, Debtor
50 Cent: You Love Him in a Bentley, But Would You Love Him on a Bus? 50’s Creditors Have 21 Questions, and They’re All About U.S. Bankruptcy Law

♫ “Girl, it’s easy to love me now.

Would you love me if I was down and out?

Would you still have love for me?” ♫

-50 Cent, 21 Questions

USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Media & Entertainment, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
New bankruptcy law amendments may impact securitization

On September 18, 2009, a number of amendments to Canada's Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (BIA) and Companies Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) came into force. The amendments were passed in 2005 and 2007 but, aside from a few provisions that became effective in July 2008, the amendments sat dormant, awaiting proclamation into force. Pursuant to Order in Council P.C. 2009-1207, almost all of these amendments have now been brought into force. Some of these provisions will be of interest to participants in the securitization market.

Canada, Insolvency & Restructuring, Securitization & Structured Finance, Stikeman Elliott LLP, Debtor, Security (finance), Interest, Over-the-counter (finance), Personal property, Contract for difference, Ontario Securities Commission, Bank of Canada, Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act 1985 (Canada), Supreme Court of Canada