On May 20, 2019, in Mission Product Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC, 587 U.S. ---, 139 S. Ct. 1652 (2019), the Supreme Court resolved a split among the circuits, holding that a licensor’s rejection of a trademark license in bankruptcy constitutes a prepetition breach, but does not terminate the license.
On Aug. 8, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld the right of Kramer Levin’s bondholder clients to seek a receiver for the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) — the first appellate court in the history of municipal bankruptcy to do so. The First Circuit reversed U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain, who presides over all proceedings under Title III of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA). PREPA bondholders alleged that PREPA’s mismanagement had depreciated revenues pledged to them as collateral.
In response to the increasing prevalence of general partner (GP)-led secondary fund restructurings, the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) has released guidance regarding this practice. The purpose of this guidance is to promote transparency and efficiency in the secondary process.
The ILPA has defined these restructurings as transactions that offer one of the following:
Good evening,
Following are the summaries for this week’s civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario.
Good evening.
Below are summaries of the civil decisions released by the Court of Appeal for Ontario this week.
The Bottom Line
The Bottom Line
The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York entered a decision confirming the applicability of the Court’s bar date order as it relates to a pension fund’s claim for withdrawal liability filed after the bar date, despite the fact that the withdrawal occurred after the deadline for filing proofs of claim.
What Happened?