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    Sold or Rejected? To Be or Not to Be ― Executory
    2019-04-19

    Whether a contract is executory is an often-litigated issue in bankruptcy because of the treatment afforded to such contracts. Although the Bankruptcy Code does not define the term “executory contract,” most courts follow a variation of the definition provided by Professor Vern Countryman in a 1973 law review article.

    Filed under:
    USA, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, United States bankruptcy court
    Authors:
    Candace Arthur
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
    Wasn’t Me: The Insured vs. Insured Exclusion (“Side A”)
    2018-09-04

    In the novel A Frolic of His Own, by William Gaddis1, the protagonist, Oscar Crease, is run over by his own driverless car when it slips from park into neutral while Oscar is standing in front of the car trying to hot-wire it.

    Filed under:
    USA, Employment & Labor, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, United States bankruptcy court
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
    Lehman Waterfall I - UK Supreme Court Judgment
    2017-05-17

    The Supreme Court in London today gave judgment in the Waterfall I appeal, a dispute as to the distribution of the estimated £8 billion surplus of assets in the main Lehman operating company in Europe, Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (LBIE).

    LBIE entered administration on 15 September 2008 and has now paid its unsecured creditors dividends of 100p in the £. The Waterfall I Supreme Court appeal addressed some of the key issues as to who should receive the surplus, which we discuss below.

    “So-called” Currency Conversion Claims

    Filed under:
    United Kingdom, Banking, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, Lehman Brothers, UK Supreme Court
    Authors:
    Mark Lawford , Rosalind Meehan
    Location:
    United Kingdom
    Firm:
    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
    To Cap or Not to Cap: Ninth Circuit Vacates Order of District Court and Revisits Section 502(b)(6)
    2017-01-11

    In this installment of “To Cap or Not to Cap,” which was previously featured on Weil’s Bankruptcy Blog in May of 2015 (see here), we reviewed a recent decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In Kupfer v.

    Filed under:
    USA, California, Arbitration & ADR, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Real Estate, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
    Authors:
    Lauren Tauro
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
    Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures: Delaware Bankruptcy Court Doesn’t Answer in Syntax-Brillian, Denying Motion to Remove Trustee
    2016-07-26

    The Bankruptcy Code’s priority scheme provides that the shareholders generally cannot receive anything on account of their investment until all secured, priority and unsecured creditors are paid in full.

    Filed under:
    USA, Delaware, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
    Wholesale Assignment of Causes of Action Does Not Establish “Related To” Jurisdiction in Delaware Bankruptcy Court
    2016-06-22

    Who doesn’t love a good catch-all provision? In a world of infinite possibilities, attorneys often find themselves drafting language designed to encompass a plethora of contingencies. Are such efforts sometimes overkill? Perhaps. Nevertheless, given our imperfect ability to predict the future, such provisions are often necessary and appropriate.

    Filed under:
    USA, Delaware, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, Bankruptcy, Debtor, Fiduciary, Liquidation, United States bankruptcy court
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
    Lookback Period - Twelve Weeks (pt 3)
    2016-05-26

    When Can a Subsidiary Be Liable for the Actions of Its Owners?

    Filed under:
    USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, Debtor, Fiduciary, Interest, Debt, Default (finance), Bankruptcy discharge, Fifth Circuit, Tenth Circuit
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
    In Madoff Fraudulent Transfer Cases, Bankruptcy Court Focuses on Intent of the Transferees
    2016-04-29

    The latest in a line of fraudulent transfer decisions in the Madoff case has added to the case-law regarding what level of knowledge is needed to plead actual fraud in securities Ponzi scheme cases.

    Filed under:
    USA, New York, Capital Markets, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, White Collar Crime, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, Security (finance), Fraud, Debtor in possession, United States bankruptcy court, US District Court for SDNY
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
    Knock Off the Knock-Offs, Part II: SDNY Bankruptcy Court Holds That Defendant’s Judgment Debt on Account of His Company’s Trademark Infringement is Not Dischargeable Under Section 523(a)(6)
    2016-03-31

    As we previously reported here at the Weil Bankruptcy Blog, in Burberry Limited and Burberry USA v.

    Filed under:
    USA, New York, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Trademarks, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, Bankruptcy, Debt, United States bankruptcy court, US District Court for SDNY
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
    2016 Lookback Period - Six Weeks (Part 2)
    2016-02-18

    Forgot to Get a Court Order Approving a Postpetition Loan?  It May Not Matter

    Filed under:
    USA, Banking, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, White Collar Crime, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP

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