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    Update: Supreme Court Grants Cert to Resolve Circuit Split Regarding Pre-Bankruptcy Seizure
    2019-12-19

    We recently reported on a decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in favor of a creditor that seized a debtor’s property pre-petition.

    Filed under:
    USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, Debtor, Title 11 of the US Code, Third Circuit, Seventh Circuit
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
    Sixth Circuit Holds that Bankruptcy Courts Must Permit FERC Participation in Bankruptcy Proceedings Considering Rejection of FERC-Jurisdictional Contracts
    2019-12-19

    On December 12, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (“Sixth Circuit”) issued an opinion affirming in part and reversing in part a bankruptcy court’s assertion of exclusive and unlimited jurisdiction over certain of FirstEnergy Solutions’ (“FES”) power purchase agreements that FERC had previously approved under the Federal Power Act (“FPA”) and that FES sought to reject in bankruptcy.

    Filed under:
    USA, Energy & Natural Resources, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Troutman Pepper, Debtor, FERC, U.S. Court of Appeals
    Authors:
    Katherine O'Konski , Adrienne L. Thompson
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Troutman Pepper
    Changes to Federal Bankruptcy Law Will Reduce Your Preference Risk
    2019-12-20

    You run a small business. Your customer needs some extra time to get through a squeeze and you work with the customer to pay down the old balance over time. Suddenly, the customer files bankruptcy and two years later you get a demand letter from a contingent-fee lawyer representing a litigation trustee seeking 80% of everything the customer paid you in the 90 days before the bankruptcy filing.

    Filed under:
    USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Robbins DiMonte Ltd, Due diligence
    Authors:
    Steve Jakubowski
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Robbins DiMonte Ltd
    Funds Talk: December 2019
    2019-12-02

    Topics covered in this issue include:

    Filed under:
    USA, Capital Markets, Competition & Antitrust, Insolvency & Restructuring, White Collar Crime, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, US Securities and Exchange Commission, Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act 2010 (USA), Title 11 of the US Code
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
    Next Wave of Oil and Gas Bankruptcies
    2019-12-04

    A new wave of bankruptcy filings for leveraged oil and gas companies has begun and this time it may involve more prepacks and less optimism. Beginning in late 2015 and continuing through 2017, downtown Houston was filled with bankruptcy lawyers. Highly leveraged exploration and production (or E&P) companies had become crippled by falling oil prices and the resulting impact on the value of their producing and non-producing reserves in their borrowing bases.

    Filed under:
    USA, Energy & Natural Resources, Insolvency & Restructuring, Duane Morris LLP, Fracking, Private equity
    Authors:
    Frederick D. (Rick) Hyman
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Duane Morris LLP
    Prohibiting Recourse to Receivership or Bankruptcy for Cannabis Industry Can Perversely Assist Bad Actor’s Continuation of Bad Acts—A Real Life Analogy
    2019-12-05

    Currently there are no clear laws specifically addressing the means for addressing insolvency issues for debtors and creditors involved in the Cannabis industry. Like the industry itself, the laws are evolving. Using a Cannabis grower business as an example, at this time the Federal Court system is not available to address such entities insolvency issues.

    Filed under:
    USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Dykema Gossett PLLC, Debtor, Title 11 of the US Code
    Authors:
    Sheryl L. Toby
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Dykema Gossett PLLC
    New Jersey District Court Holds that No Evidentiary Hearing is Necessary to Appoint Chapter 11 Trustee
    2019-12-05

    In MicroBilt Corporation v. Ranger Specialty Income Fund, L.P. et al. (In re Princeton AlternativeIncome Fund,LP), Case No. 3:18-CV-16557 (D.N.J. Nov. 27, 2019), the District Court for the District of New Jersey recently affirmed a bankruptcy court's decision to appoint a chapter 11 trustee, without conducting a traditional evidentiary hearing.  The holding reinforces that a bankruptcy court has broad discretion to grant extreme remedies in a case.

    Facts

    Filed under:
    USA, New Jersey, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, FisherBroyles LLP, Title 11 of the US Code
    Authors:
    H. Joseph Acosta
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    FisherBroyles LLP
    Fifth Circuit Withdraws Controversial Ruling, but Key Holding Remains
    2019-12-05

    Ultra Petroleum entered bankruptcy in significant financial distress, but then – thanks to a spike in oil prices – the debtor’s fortunes changed almost literally overnight.

    Filed under:
    USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, Title 11 of the US Code, Fifth Circuit
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
    SCOTUS to decide who gets a consolidated group’s tax refund when a bankruptcy intervenes?
    2019-12-06

    The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on December 3, 2019 in Simon E. Rodriguez v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., 18-1269 (Sup. Ct.).

    Filed under:
    USA, Banking, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Tax, Akerman LLP, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (USA), Tax Cuts and Jobs Act 2017 (USA), Supreme Court of the United States, Tenth Circuit
    Authors:
    David Evan Otero
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    Akerman LLP
    Rekindling the Flame: Oil & Gas Securitizations
    2019-12-09

    A number of recent structurings of investment-grade rated securitizations of oil and gas wells are sparking conversations in the U.S. upstream oil and gas industry about this relatively new, structured finance product. Although structured finance products are not new to the industry, interest in these products has been rekindled as exploration and production (“E&P”) companies seek alternatives to the more traditional reserve-based loans, equity financing, and bond issuances.

    Filed under:
    USA, Energy & Natural Resources, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Securitization & Structured Finance, King & Spalding LLP, Private equity, Due diligence
    Authors:
    Kimberlee Cagle (Kim) , Susan O. Berry , Carol Burke
    Location:
    USA
    Firm:
    King & Spalding LLP

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