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Proposed appeal fails to raise broader issues about the intersection of copyright and insolvency law

Nortel Networks Corporation (Re), 2016 ONCA 749

Canada, Ontario, Copyrights, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Copyright infringement, Court of Appeal for Ontario
IP Licence Provided Contractual Right, Not a Property Right in the Asset

Golden Opportunities Fund Inc v Phenomenome Discoveries Inc, 2016 SKQB 306

Canada, Insolvency & Restructuring, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Health Canada, Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act 1985 (Canada)
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