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August 14, 2025
Meet The Attorneys Guiding Turbine Blade Maker TPI's Ch. 11
A team of lawyers from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP is leading the bankruptcy case of Arizona-based manufacturer of blades for wind turbines TPI Composites Inc., as the company plans to hand itself over to its senior lenders.
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August 14, 2025
Del Monte Says It's Too Soon To Decide On Tomato Contracts
Packaged foods giant Del Monte asked a New Jersey bankruptcy judge to reject a motion by tomato processors seeking an immediate decision on the fate of their contracts, saying making the call this early in the Chapter 11 case would disrupt its attempts to find a buyer.
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August 14, 2025
Infowars Faces Sale As Texas Judge Appoints Receiver
A Texas state court judge has ordered the appointment of a receiver to take possession of Alex Jones' Infowars assets to help satisfy over $1 billion in judgments he faces for defaming a group of families of Sandy Hook shooting victims.
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August 14, 2025
Rite Aid Gets More Bids For Leases, Properties In Ch. 11
Drugstore chain Rite Aid told a New Jersey bankruptcy judge on Thursday that it has secured another roughly $76 million in bids for leases and property across the country as the debtor works to sell its assets in Chapter 11.
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August 14, 2025
Troutman Adds 3 More CMBS Attys From K&L Gates
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP has announced three more additions to its commercial mortgage-backed securities team from K&L Gates LLP, saying their hires will "further fortify the firm's competitive edge in the special servicing and litigation sectors."
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August 13, 2025
Jewelry Co. Claire's To Appoint UK Insolvency Administrators
The operator of United Kingdom-based stores of the bankrupt jewelry retailer Claire's said Wednesday it would open an insolvency proceeding and appoint administrators, one week after Claire's filed for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware bankruptcy court.
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August 13, 2025
Policy Uncertainty, Competition Led Turbine Maker Into Ch. 11
Uncertainty around renewable energy policy, tariffs, supply chain issues and international competition led Arizona-based manufacturer of blades for wind turbines TPI Composites Inc. to file for Chapter 11.Â
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August 13, 2025
Feds Skirting Risky Debt As 1 Bank Stays Highly Leveraged
Federal regulators aren't scrutinizing risky real estate loans even though some banks have a substantial volume of high-risk debt on their books, a banking source told Law360 Real Estate Authority.
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August 13, 2025
Creditors Say Genesis Sale Process Stacked Toward Insiders
Unsecured creditors of Genesis Healthcare are asking a Delaware bankruptcy judge to amend the terms of its Chapter 11 financing to prevent corporate insiders from retaining control of the nursing home chain and dodging potential claims against them.
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August 13, 2025
Retailer At Home Defends Revised Ch. 11 Plan And Releases
Household furnishings retailer At Home Group Inc. hit back against objections to its Chapter 11 plan and disclosure statement lodged by creditors and the U.S. Department of Justice's bankruptcy watchdog, telling a Delaware federal judge that third-party releases in the plan are now consensual, and its disclosures are sufficient.
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August 13, 2025
Scarinci Hollenbeck Adds 4 Litigators In NYC
Scarinci Hollenbeck LLC has added four litigators previously with Kishner Legal PC who have expertise in areas such as commercial litigation and real estate as attorneys in its New York City office, the firm announced Wednesday.
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August 13, 2025
No So-Called Summer Slowdown As Bankruptcies Spike
Summer is often a time for lawyers to worry more about their family vacations than their next bankruptcy filing. But this year is an exception, with a July surge in filings driven by the new administration's tariff and immigration policies and a normalization back to pre-pandemic levels overall, experts said.
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August 13, 2025
BakerHostetler Hires Cooley Securities Litigation Atty
BakerHostetler has added an experienced litigator to its white collar, investigations and securities enforcement litigation and securities and governance litigation teams in New York, bringing with him more than 25 years of BigLaw experience, including most recently with Cooley LLP.
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August 13, 2025
Wind Blade Maker TPI Gets $7.5M Of New Money In Ch. 11 DIP
A Texas bankruptcy judge on Wednesday granted an Arizona-based manufacturer of blades for wind turbines interim access to its postpetition financing package, which includes $7.5 million in new money upfront.
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August 12, 2025
Terraform Founder Cops To $40B Crypto Fraud Scheme
The founder and former CEO of Terraform Labs on Tuesday admitted to perpetrating a multibillion-dollar fraud by deceiving investors about its decentralized finance-based ecosystem of crypto products, a scheme that wiped out $40 billion in market value when it collapsed.
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August 12, 2025
Guo Ch. 11 Trustee Seeks Additional Time Chasing Relatives
The Chapter 11 trustee overseeing Miles Guo's estate on Tuesday asked a Connecticut bankruptcy judge for six additional months to file potential clawback claims against six of the Chinese exile's relatives and business associates, saying he's examining money transfers from Australia and China and "bags of cash" for Guo's daughter.
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August 12, 2025
Catching Up With New Bankruptcy Case Action
Jewelry chain Claire's filed for its second bankruptcy with $690 million in debt and plans to close 700 U.S. stores, Delaware's 4 Points Towing & Roadside Service sought Chapter 11 under Subchapter V after pandemic-driven losses, and a parking garage in New York City filed for Chapter 11 citing difficulty in keeping up with mortgage payments amid rising interest rates.
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August 12, 2025
Del Monte Auction Set For Nov. After Ch. 11 Financing OK'd
A New Jersey bankruptcy judge said Tuesday he will give final approval to $912.5 million in Chapter 11 financing for canned foods giant Del Monte as it seeks to find a buyer.
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August 12, 2025
Judge Denies Charitable Donation Claim In FTX Ch. 11
A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Tuesday rejected a former FTX Trading Ltd. customer's nearly $700,000 claim, saying he failed to show that funds donated to the cryptocurrency platform's charity were later clawed back.
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August 12, 2025
Wind Blade Maker TPI Hits Ch. 11 In Texas With Over $1B Debt
TPI Composites Inc., an Arizona-based manufacturer of blades for wind turbines, has filed for Chapter 11 protection in Texas bankruptcy court, listing between $1 billion and $10 billion in debt, including $600 million in funded debt, and plans to hand the company over to its senior lenders.
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August 11, 2025
Claire's Starts Store Sales, Linqto Defeats Venue Transfer Bid
Jewelry company Claire's announced it would launch store closing sales after seeking bankruptcy protection for the second time in less than a decade. Meanwhile, a judge gave the Archdiocese of New Orleans one last chance to secure confirmation of a Chapter 11 plan, and Linqto managed to keep its bankruptcy case in Texas.
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August 11, 2025
Miles Guo Ordered To Forfeit $1.3B In Fraud Case
Bankrupt Chinese exile Miles Guo must forfeit $1.3 billion in cash, luxury goods and real estate, including his 21-bedroom New Jersey mansion, a New York federal judge said Monday, more than a year after the purported billionaire was found guilty of wide-ranging fraud.
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August 11, 2025
Judge To Order Bond, Sanctions In Crypto Miner's Ch. 11
A Delaware bankruptcy judge said Monday she would require the creditors that petitioned to force a cryptocurrency mining operation into Chapter 11 to post a multimillion-dollar bond in case their petition is dismissed.
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August 11, 2025
McDermott, Other Firms Sign Deal To End $4.4M Guo Claims
McDermott Will & Schulte, four other law firms and one consulting firm have agreed to settle, for an undisclosed amount and without formal litigation, clawback claims totaling $4.4 million by the Chapter 11 estate of bankrupt Chinese exile and convicted criminal Miles Guo.
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August 11, 2025
Celsius Rips Cadwalader's Fee Bid For Mashinsky Fraud Case
A litigation administrator for defunct cryptocurrency firm Celsius Network has blasted a bid by Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP to have its legal fees for representing Alex Mashinsky, a Celsius co-founder sentenced to 12 years for fraud, covered by funds in the Chapter 11 estate.
Expert Analysis
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Judge Should Not Have Been Reprimanded For Alito Essay
Senior U.S. District Judge Michael Ponsor's New York Times essay critiquing Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for potential ethical violations absolutely cannot be construed as conduct prejudicial to the administration of the business of the courts, says Ashley London at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University.
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Lights, Camera, Ethics? TV Lawyers Tend To Set Bad Example
Though fictional movies and television shows portraying lawyers are fun to watch, Hollywood’s inaccurate depictions of legal ethics can desensitize attorneys to ethics violations and lead real-life clients to believe that good lawyers take a scorched-earth approach, says Nancy Rapoport at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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AI Will Soon Transform The E-Discovery Industrial Complex
Todd Itami at Covington discusses how generative artificial intelligence will reshape the current e-discovery paradigm, replacing the blunt instrument of data handling with a laser scalpel of fully integrated enterprise solutions — after first making e-discovery processes technically and legally harder.
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When Innovation Overwhelms The Rule Of Law
In an era where technology is rapidly evolving and artificial intelligence is seemingly everywhere, it’s worth asking if the law — both substantive precedent and procedural rules — can keep up with the light speed of innovation, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
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Adventure Photography Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Photographing nature everywhere from Siberia to Cuba and Iceland to Rwanda provides me with a constant reminder to refresh, refocus and rethink the legal issues that my clients face, says Richard Birmingham at Davis Wright.
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How Ch. 11 Can Alleviate Merchant Cash Advance Concerns
Merchant cash advance funding is one of the biggest challenges for small businesses today because funders are so prevalent, aggressive and expensive, but bankruptcy can provide several tools for dealing with MCA agreements that may allow the debtor business to restructure and survive, says Patricia Fugée at FisherBroyles.
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5 Ways To Create Effective Mock Assignments For Associates
In order to effectively develop associates’ critical thinking skills, firms should design mock assignments that contain a few key ingredients, from messy fact patterns to actionable feedback, says Abdi Shayesteh at AltaClaro.
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8 Lessons Yellow Corp. Layoffs Can Teach Distressed Cos.
A Delaware bankruptcy court’s recent decision, examining trucking company Yellow Corp.’s abrupt termination of roughly 25,500 employees, offers financially distressed businesses a road map for navigating layoffs under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, say attorneys at King & Spalding.
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Mentorship Resolutions For The New Year
Attorneys tend to focus on personal achievements or career milestones when they set yearly goals, but one important area often gets overlooked in this process — mentoring relationships, which are some of the most effective tools for professional growth, say Kelly Galligan at Rutan & Tucker and Andra Greene at Phillips ADR.
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Coaching Little League Makes Me A Better Lawyer
While coaching poorly played Little League Baseball early in the morning doesn't sound like a good time, I love it — and the experience has taught me valuable lessons about imperfection, compassion and acceptance that have helped me grow as a person and as a lawyer, says Alex Barnett at DiCello Levitt.
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5 Litigation Funding Trends To Note In 2025
Lawyers and their clients must be prepared to navigate an evolving litigation funding market in 2025, made more complicated by a new administration and the increasing overall cost of litigation, says Jeffery Lula at GLS Capital.
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Rethinking Litigation Risk And What It Really Means To Win
Attorneys have a tendency to overestimate litigation risk before summary judgment and underestimate risk after it, but an eight-stage litigation framework can clarify risk at different points and help litigators reassess what true success looks like in any particular case, says Joshua Libling at Arcadia Finance.
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Lessons From Two New Year's Eve Uptier Exchange Decisions
On the last day of 2024, two different courts issued important decisions relating to non-pro rata uptier exchanges — and while they differ, both rulings highlight that transactions effected in reliance on undefined terms in debt agreements come with increased risk, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.