In re SJT Ventures, LLC, 2010 WL 3342206 (Bankr. N.D. Texas 2010)

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With the future of the New York City Off Track Betting Corp. up in the air, the New York Senate returned to the Capitol Tuesday, Dec. 7, to find itself in the middle of a long-standing battle between tracks and OTB corporations in the state.

Officials at the NYCOTB, which is in Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection, vowed to shut down the stateowned betting giant at midnight Dec. 7 if the Senate does not pass a reorganization bill already approved last week by the Assembly.

On September 14, 2010, a New York state court entered an Order of Rehabilitation for Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company and Centennial Insurance Company (collectively, "Atlantic") to try to resolve Atlantic's insolvency and return it to the marketplace. The court appointed the New York Superintendent of Insurance as the "Rehabilitator" and directed the Rehabilitator to, among other things, take possession and control of Atlantic's property, conduct Atlantic 's business, and remove the causes and conditions that made this rehabilitation proceeding necessary.

On December 1st, the Seventh Circuit affirmed the approval of a receiver's plan to distribute the assets of a failed investment manager, finding that where a receivership trust lacks sufficient assets to fully repay investors and the investors' funds are commingled, a pro rata distribution plan is appropriate, and that the trial court properly rejected the objectors' arguments that their redemption requests made them creditors and not equity holders. SEC v.

On December 3rd, the CFTC published for public comment proposed requirements for swap dealers and major swap participants with respect to the treatment of collateral posted by their counterparties to margin, guarantee, or secure uncleared swaps. The proposal also would ensure that, for purposes of subchapter IV of chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code, securities held in a portfolio margining account that is a futures account constitute "customer property" and owners of such account constitute "customers." Comments should be submitted on or before February 1, 2011.

In the first part of this article, we considered the effect of section 365(d)(4) and other Bankruptcy Code sections on retailer debtors and their respective landlords, as well as on how retailer debtors can utilize the holiday sales season to implement a successful reorganization.

In the case of banking institutions dealing with the unique world of insurance insolvency, the results may not be as dramatic as in other cultural clashes, but they can be equally confused. This is because insurance insolvency operates in its own separate world, where the usual rules of bankruptcy do not apply and where, without appropriate safeguards, having a secured claim may not guarantee repayment. For banks and other secured creditors, lending to insurance companies is governed by a separate set of rules to which careful attention must be paid.

Under Delaware law, do creditors of an insolvent limited liability company have the same standing as creditors of insolvent corporations to pursue derivative claims against directors on behalf of the LLC? Most commentators, and some courts, have assumed that the answer was “yes.” However, the Delaware Court of Chancery in CML V LLC v. Bax, No. 5373-VCL, 2010 WL 4517795 (Del. Ch. Nov. 3, 2010), determined that the plain language of the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act (the LLC Act) denies derivative standing to such creditors.

In re River Road Hotel Partners, LLC, et al., Case No. 09-B-30029 (Bankr. N.D. Ill. 2010)

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In re Young Broadcasting, Inc., et al., 430 B.R. 99 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2010)

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