470-Unit Apartment Complex in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania In re Ventana Hills Associates, Ltd. (Bankr. N.D. Ill.) Case no. 09-41755 In re Ventana Hills Phase II, L.P. (Bankr. N.D. Ill.) Case no. 09-41758
470-Unit Apartment Complex in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania In re Ventana Hills Associates, Ltd. (Bankr. N.D. Ill.) Case no. 09-41755 In re Ventana Hills Phase II, L.P. (Bankr. N.D. Ill.) Case no. 09-41758
On Friday, the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance closed RockBridge Commercial Bank, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and the FDIC was named as receiver.
George Miller, the Chapter 7 Trustee in the HomeBanc Mortgage bankruptcy, recently filed approximately 400 preference actions against various defendants under section 547 of the Bankruptcy Code. According to a Summons filed in one of the adversary actions, the first pre-trial conference is scheduled in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware on April 21, 2010. The HomeBanc bankruptcy, along with these adversary actions, are before the Honorable Kevin J.
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The recent English court decision in Goldacre (Offices) Limited v Nortel Networks UK Limited (in administration) [2009] EWCH 3389 (Ch) may be controversial and raises thorny practical issues, especially in relation to the restructurings of retail businesses.
Re Trident Fashions PLC: Exeter City Council v Bairstow [2007] EWHC 400 (Ch)
In March 2007 the High Court ruled that that non-domestic rates are payable as an expense of the administration as a “necessary disbursement” under Rule 2.67(1)(f) Insolvency Rules 1986 (IR), in priority to payment of the administrator’s remuneration.
Re Powerhouse Limited: Prudential Assurance Company Limited v PRG Powerhouse Limited [2007] EWHC 1002 Ch Guarantees are widely used in commercial transactions to provide assurance to creditors that debts or other obligations owed to them are discharged fully in the event the principal debtor fails to perform. This assurance was shaken by the steps taken in early 2006 by PRG Powerhouse Limited (Powerhouse) to enter into a company voluntary arrangement (CVA) that contained proposals to release certain parent company guarantees given to landlords of premises being vacated by Powerhouse.
There has been a significant increase in insolvencies in the construction, real estate, retail and wholesale sectors of the Russian economy, according to the statistics in the Competition Development Bulletin “Concentration on the Russian Markets: Trends in the Period of Recession” published in December 2015 by the Analytical Centre of the Government of the Russian Federation.