On December 2, 2016, Limitless Mobile, LLC (“Limitless” or the “Debtor”) filed a chapter 11 voluntary petition in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. The Debtor was formed in 2013 to provide broadband and wireless telecommunication services in certain rural counties in central Pennsylvania. The Debtor is part of a worldwide corporate family referred to as the Limitless Group. According to the First Day Declaration, Limitless intends to wind down its retail-side business and emerge from bankruptcy as a wholesale operator.
In the recent decision of Lehman Bros. Special Fin. Inc. v. Bank of Am. Nat’l Assoc. (In re Lehman Bros. Holdings Inc.), 2016 WL 3621180 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. June 28, 2016), the U.S.
I just had an interesting discussion with a partner on the subject of the sale of exempt property in bankruptcy. We concluded that even though tenant by the entireties real estate might be exempt from creditor claims in some states, nonetheless in bankruptcy it is still property of the estate under Bankruptcy Code section 541 and subject to the bankruptcy trustee’s general powers of sale under Code section 363(b). The analysis goes like this: section 541 creates a bankruptcy estate that includes all interests of the debtor in property without mention of exemptions, and sec
On September 11, 2012, Digital Domain Media Group and various related entities (collectively, "Digital Domain") filed chapter 11 petitions for bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Digital Domain filed several "first day" pleadings with the Bankruptcy Court, one of which is the Declaration of Digital Domain's Chief Restructuring Officer in Support of First Day Motions (the "Declaration"). As set forth in the Declaration, Digital Domain provi
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On March 5, 2012, Pemco World Air Services ("Pemco"), filed chapter 11 petitions for bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. According to the Declaration of Pemco's CFO (the "Declaration"), Pemco describes itself as "an industry leader in maintenance, repair and overhaul for wide and narrow body aircraft and regional jets from around the world." Decl. at *2. In addition to maintenance and repair, Pemco also is one of the leading providers of narrow body aircraft cargo conversions. Id.
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Summary
In a 24 page decision signed July 8, 2011, Judge Walrath of the Delaware Bankruptcy Court granted a motion to for summary judgment, holding a non-debtor defendant liable with the Debtor as a single employer for alleged WARN Act violations. Judge Walrath’s opinion is available here (the “Opinion”).
Background
Judge Carey released an order amending his Memorandum Opinion dated May 10, 2011 in the New Century TRS Holdings, Inc. bankruptcy. His previous opinion had misstated the amount of a settlement between the two parties in the adversary proceeding which gave rise to the opinion.
Several Installments in this blog series about the long-running, global Ponzi scheme of Bernard L.
On October 20, 2010, Emivest Aerospace Corporation ("Emivest") filed a petition for bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.