The court has set November 30, 2009 at 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) as the deadline for all creditors to file a Proof of Claim for pre-petition amounts which may be due from the debtors to creditors including those associated with open invoices entitled to priority treatment under the Bankruptcy Code for deliveries in the 20-day period immediately preceding the bankruptcy filing and the post-petition termination/rejection of executory contracts.
The following is a list of some recent larger U.S. bankruptcy filings in various industries. To the extent you are a creditor to any of these debtors, or other entities which may have filed for bankruptcy protection, you as a creditor are entitled to certain protections under the Bankruptcy Code.
AUTOMOTIVE
Holley Performance Products Holdings Inc., a supplier of parts for race cars, filed its second bankruptcy petition in less than two years Monday.
CREDIT CARDS
The following is a list of some recent larger U.S. bankruptcy filings in various industries. To the extent you are a creditor to any of these debtors, or other entities which may have filed for bankruptcy protection, you as a creditor are entitled to certain protections under the Bankruptcy Code.
AUTOMOTIVE
Auto Cast, Inc. files Chapter 11 in the Western District of Michigan.
Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc. and its affiliated debtors file Chapter 11 in the District of Delaware.
Implementation of the Bankruptcy and Diligence etc (Scotland) Act 2007 continues apace. 22 April 2009 saw the most recent instalment with the passing of Commencement Order NO.4 including Parts 5 and 10 of the Act: namely the parts relating to inhibition, arrestments in execution and actions of furthcoming.
Part 5 - Inhibition
Deadlines for the Filing of Proofs of Claims In the Chrysler and Lear Bankruptcies Have Been Set
1. Deadline Relating to Chrysler Bankruptcy:
Masuda Funai routinely represents creditors in bankruptcy proceedings in order to protect their contractual and legal interests and rights to payment. The following is a list of some recent larger U.S. bankruptcy filings in various industries. To the extent you are a creditor to any of these debtors, or other entities which may have filed for bankruptcy protection, you as a creditor are entitled to certain protections under the Bankruptcy Code.
AUTOMOTIVE
Cooper-Standards files Chapter 11.
The following is a list of some recent larger U.S. bankruptcy filings in various industries. To the extent you are a creditor to any of these debtors, or other entities which may have filed for bankruptcy protection, you as a creditor are entitled to certain protections under the Bankruptcy Code.
AUTOMOTIVE
American Consolidated Transportation Cos., Inc and its affiliated debtors file for Chapter 11 in the Northern District of Illinois.
PHARMACEUTICALS
The following is a list of some recent larger U.S. bankruptcy filings in various industries. To the extent you are a creditor to any of these debtors, or other entities which may have filed for bankruptcy protection, you as a creditor are entitled to certain protections under the Bankruptcy Code.
AUTOMOTIVE
Global Safety Textiles Holdings LLC and its affiliated debtors files for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware.
Grede Foundries, Inc. files for Chapter 11 protection in Wisconsin.
Lear Corporation and related U.S., Canadian, and Cayman Island affiliates (“Lear”) filed voluntary bankruptcy petitions on July 7, 2009 in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (“Bankruptcy Court”). Lear intends to continue to operate its businesses while in bankruptcy. Other than certain Lear related entities based in Canada and the Cayman Islands, Lear’s non-U.S. subsidiaries do not appear to be included in Lear’s U.S. bankruptcy filing and apparently will continue to operate outside the supervision and jurisdiction of the Bankruptcy Court.
With ever increasing numbers of corporate insolvencies, it is likely that the courts will see an increase in litigation raised by insolvency practitioners and creditors arising out of restructuring arrangements entered into by companies in an attempt to stave off insolvency.
While debt restructurings must always remain a significant part of the corporate recovery toolkit, all stakeholders must be aware of the underlying rules relating to the challengeability of transactions in the run up to insolvencies.
There are two main challengeable areas in Scots law: