Fulltext Search
Who should hold the bag for employment liabilities when the portfolio company goes “belly-up”? The private equity firm, maybe.

In the world of private equity, vast sums of money are raised by private investors who pool their money into collective funds in order to acquire companies, i.e., a “portfolio company”, with the goal of eventually flipping the portfolio company at a significant profit. Sometimes, however, that bet goes wrong, and the portfolio company is sold at a loss or, worse, liquidated in bankruptcy.

USA, Corporate Finance/M&A, Employment & Labor, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Mintz, Private equity, Angel investor, Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act 1988 (USA)
Supreme Court holds oral argument in Schwab v. Reilly: analyzing a trustee’s duty to object to a facially valid exemption to avoid the risk that an undervalued asset be deemed “fully exempt”?

United States Supreme Court

Washington, D.C.

November 3, 2009

USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Wiley Rein LLP, Tax exemption, Bankruptcy, Debtor, Statutory interpretation, Interest, Consideration, Trustee, Supreme Court of the United States, United States bankruptcy court, Third Circuit