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Texas Bankruptcy Court Allows Make-Whole Premiums, Post-Petition Interest on Unsecured Claims at Contractual Default Rate

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USA, Texas, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, Title 11 of the US Code
Proposed insolvency (and other) relief for businesses impacted by COVID-19

Finance Minister Grant Robertson yesterday afternoon announced a number of proposed temporary changes to the Companies Act, with the stated purpose to help businesses facing insolvency due to COVID-19 remain viable.

The temporary changes include:

New Zealand, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Buddle Findlay, Coronavirus
"Time Is On My Side" — When a "Time of the Essence" Closing Date Keeps Rolling Like a Stone for 60 Days

The recent decision of the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York in In re AAGS Holdings LLC, Case No. 19-13029 (SMB) (Bankr. D. Del. Nov. 12, 2019), underscores the ability of debtors — and specifically, for purposes of this Client Alert, parties to real property purchase contracts — to take advantage of the Bankruptcy Code’s 60-day tolling period to get more time to close on a purchase despite a “time of the essence” ("TOE") closing deadline.

USA, New York, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, Escrow, United States bankruptcy court, US District Court for the Southern District of New York