CalDel Holdings, LLC, a semi-conductor manufacturer headquartered in Vancouver, Washington, has filed a petition for relief under Chapter 11 in the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (Case No. 17-12266). The petition estimates the Debtor’s assets to be between $1 – $10 million and its liabilities to be between $500,000 – $1 million. The Debtor’s list of top 20 creditors only includes one party—Universal Semiconductor, Inc.
Lenders rejoice. The Second Circuit recently issued its highly anticipated opinion in In re MPM Silicones, LLC, where it held that the appropriate cramdown interest rate in chapter 11 cases is the market rate (so long as an efficient market exists) rather than the formula rate applied by the US Supreme Court in individual debtors’ chapter 13 cases.
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On October 19, 2017, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals stated “a bankruptcy court can enjoin any civil action if the outcome could alter the debtor’s rights, liabilities, options, or freedom of action or in any way impacts upon the handling and administration of the bankrupt estate.” In re: Fundamental Long Term Care, No. 16-16462, 2017 WL 46826791 at *8 (11th Cir. Oct. 19, 2017) (emphasis added).
The United States Second Circuit has issued its ruling in the Momentive Performance Materials casesresolving three separate appeals by different groups of creditors of Judge Bricetti’s judgment in the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York, which affirmed
In a previous article, Losing Momentive: A Roadmap to Higher Cramdown Interest Rates, we explored how the judicial cramdown interest rate cap was not gaining widespread traction as feared by many in response to the 2014 Momentive bench ruling upheld in a
On September 21, 2017, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas (the Court) held, over the objection of Ultra Petroleum Corp.
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Ideal Diamond Trading Limited (f/k/a Jade Crown Trading Limited), a diamond trader based in Hong Kong, has filed a petition for relief under Chapter 11 in the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (Case No. 17-12202). Ideal is an affiliate of Exelco North America, Inc. (Lead Case No.
Last Friday, October 13, Judge Sean H. Lane of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York issued an opinion addressing the presumption against extraterritoriality of US law as well as the limits of the doctrine of international comity.