(7th Cir. Mar. 18, 2016)
Irvin v. Faller (In re Faller)
(Bankr. W.D. Ky. Mar. 17, 2016)
(7th Cir. Mar. 11, 2016)
(Bankr. E.D. Ky. Mar. 7, 2016)
(Bankr. W.D. Ky. Mar. 8, 2016)
The bankruptcy court sustains the debtors’ objection to the creditor’s claim. The court determines that the creditor failed to establish that the transaction with the debtors was intended as a loan. Instead, the parties had formed a partnership with the creditor making capital contributions, rather than loans. Opinion below.
(7th Cir. Mar. 4, 2016)
(6th Cir. B.A.P. Mar. 3, 2016)
(6th Cir. B.A.P. Mar. 3, 2016)
In our recent note “Treatment of senior unsecured debt in European leveraged finance transactions: the need for an intercreditor agreement”, which can be viewed here, we addressed the increase in flexibility in European financings to incur senior unsecured debt and the risk that the lack of any agreed intercreditor arrangement may impair senior secured lenders’ ability to realise recoveries from a European Credit
(Bankr. S.D. Ind. Feb. 24, 2016)