This is how Tribune ends: not with a bang, but a whimper. The 12-year litigation saga, rooted in the spectacular failure of the media and sports conglomerate’s 2007 leveraged buyout, reached an end in late February with a curt “cert. denied” from the US Supreme Court.
Morgan Lewis was one of the firms that captained the defense for Tribune’s former shareholders. This post notes some lessons that we learned—and relearned.
Lesson One: Section 546(e)’s ‘New’ Safe Harbor
The US Supreme Court tends to hear a couple of bankruptcy cases per term. Most of these cases deal with interpreting provisions of the Bankruptcy Code. However, every few years or so, the Supreme Court decides a constitutional issue in bankruptcy. Some are agita-inducing (Northern Pipeline, Stern), some less so (Katz). The upcoming case is a little more nuanced, but could have major consequences.
Insight
Consider a lender that extends a term loan in the amount of $1 million to an entity debtor. The loan is guaranteed by the debtor’s owner. If both the debtor and the guarantor become subject to bankruptcy cases, it is settled that the lender has a claim of $1 million (ignoring interest and expenses) in each bankruptcy case. However, the lender cannot recover more than $1 million in total in the two cases combined. (Ivanhoe Building & Loan Ass'n of Newark, NJ v. Orr, 295 U.S. 243 (1935).)
Foi publicada em Diário da República a Lei n.º 9/2022, de 11 de janeiro, que veio estabelecer medidas de apoio e agilização dos processos de reestruturação das empresas e dos acordos de pagamento, transpor a Diretiva (UE) 2019/1023, do Parlamento Europeu e do Conselho, de 20 de junho de 2019, e alterar o Código da Insolvência e da Recuperação de Empresas (
Analizamos las principales novedades introducidas en el Proyecto de Ley de reforma del texto refundido de la Ley Concursal, recientemente publicado en el Boletín de las Cortes. Ofrecemos, además, un documento comparativo en el que mostramos todos los cambios que incorpora el texto respecto del anteproyecto inicial publicado el pasado mes de agosto.
Not so long ago US Bankruptcy Judge Robert Drain of the Southern District of New York had his time in the barrel—pilloried in the media for approving releases to members of the Sackler family as part of a bankruptcy plan that would settle global opioid-related claims against Purdue Pharma, a bankruptcy debtor, and affiliated family members and other persons who were not bankruptcy debtors.
Chapter 11 plans are a form of stakeholder democracy. Elaborate rules govern voting and its consequences, and, in Section 1125(b), how acceptances—and rejections—may be solicited. Well, sort of.
El Consejo de Ministros ha acordado extender el plazo de solicitud de la financiación avaladapor el Instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO), CESCE o CERSA (la financiación avalada), así como elevar los umbrales económicos relativos a la refinanciación de la misma, trasladando dichas modificaciones al Código de Buenas Prácticas.
El pre-pack concursal se está implementando en España de manera paulatina a través de diversos protocolos y resoluciones judiciales. Ofrecemos un mapa desde el que se podrá acceder a las novedades que vayan surgiendo en este terreno.
Se amplía la moratoria concursal hasta el 30 de junio de 2022
El 24 de noviembre se publicó en el Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE) el Real Decreto-ley 27/2021, de 23 de noviembre, por el que se prorrogan determinadas medidas económicas para apoyar la recuperación. Dicha norma recoge, entre otros aspectos, la extensión, hasta 2022, de la aplicación de ciertas medidas favorables a las empresas, en materia concursal, societaria, administrativa y de avales y ayudas públicas.