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August 04, 2025
NYC Music Venue Operator Hits Ch. 11 After Project Delays
Avant Gardner, a New York City music venue owner, filed for Chapter 11 in Delaware on Monday, saying renovation and permitting troubles at the Brooklyn Mirage, its largest venue, stopped it from hosting events in the space for the 2025 season.
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August 01, 2025
Long Island Castle Owner Files Ch. 11 To Stall Foreclosure
The owner of a century-old castle on Long Island's Gold Coast filed for Chapter 11 protection late Thursday in New York bankruptcy court, saying it wants to stop a foreclosure sale being forced by its mortgagee lender so the debtor can run a sale process of its own.
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August 01, 2025
Meet The Attorneys Guiding Desktop Metal's Ch. 11
A team of lawyers from Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLPÂ is leading the bankruptcy case of a 3D printer designer, Desktop Metal, as the company plans to sell its assets through Chapter 11 proceedings.Â
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August 01, 2025
What's Happening In Bankruptcy Court This Coming Week
During August's first full week, bankruptcy judges will hear issues including Silicon Valley Bank's former parent company's fight with Cayman Islands liquidators over standing, Genesis Healthcare's request for final postpetition financing approval and a personal injury firm's agreement to appoint an examiner in its bankruptcy.
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August 01, 2025
4 Mass. Rulings You May Have Missed In July
A cannabis company in the process of going out of business cannot rely on a state court receivership to shield it from creditors in other states, and the owners of shuttered Norwood Hospital can't renew an expired permit issued to bankrupt Steward Health.
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August 01, 2025
Rising Star: Paul Hastings' Lindsey Henrikson
Lindsey Henrikson of Paul Hastings LLP advised Colombian refinery Reficar in a high-stakes global restructuring that preserved a $1.3 billion arbitration award and secured equity in McDermott International, earning her a spot among the bankruptcy law practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 01, 2025
Fiber Co. Tilson Asks For Nod On $4.2M Broadband Sale
Fiber network developer Tilson Technology Management Inc. asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to approve the sale of its broadband business for about $4.2 million.
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July 31, 2025
Calif. Resort Developer Gets 2 More Weeks Of Ch. 11 Funding
An insolvent company that developed a resort and other properties in California told a Delaware bankruptcy judge on Thursday that it had cobbled together two more weeks of Chapter 11 financing, avoiding for now a dismissal or conversion of its case to a Chapter 7 liquidation.
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July 31, 2025
CGL Cases To Watch In The Second Half Of 2025
Federal and state courts continue to weigh litigation involving public nuisance, long-tail environmental and sexual abuse claims. Here, Law360 breaks down some of the blockbuster commercial general liability insurance cases to follow in the second half of the year.
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July 31, 2025
Casino Developer Must Stay In Involuntary Ch. 7, Judge Finds
A Delaware bankruptcy judge has refused to throw out or convert the involuntary Chapter 7 proceedings launched against the onetime hopeful developer of a casino in Mississippi, concluding the creditors that forced it into bankruptcy did not act in bad faith.
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July 31, 2025
Desktop Metal OK'd For $10M Sale To Fund Ch. 11
A Texas bankruptcy judge Thursday allowed 3D printer designer Desktop Metal to sell its foreign subsidiaries for $10 million as it looks to find a buyer for the rest of its assets in Chapter 11.
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July 31, 2025
Under The Radar: Bankruptcy News You May Have Missed
The U.S. Trustee's Office objected to the disclosure statement filed by Flagship Resort Development Corp., arguing it lacks details on third-party releases in its Chapter 11 liquidation plan. Guardian Elder Care's creditors committee opposed extending the company's exclusivity to file a Chapter 11 plan. Nikola Corp. asked to subordinate the SEC's $125 million penalty, calling it a lower-priority debt.
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July 31, 2025
Sand Miners Hit Ch. 11, Blaming Order Lull, Lender Issues
Two companies that mine and process sand for fracking have filed for bankruptcy in Texas, one estimating it had at least $50 million in debt and the other estimating at least $100 million, and asked to undergo a joint Chapter 11 in response to a liquidity crunch and issues with their secured lender.
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July 31, 2025
Rising Star: Willkie's Stuart Lombardi
Stuart Lombardi of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has worked for bankruptcy clients including families seeking defamation payouts in Alex Jones' insolvency and the representative of as-yet-unknown asbestos claimants in a talc producer's Chapter 11, earning him a spot among the bankruptcy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 31, 2025
Meet The Attys Steering Valves And Controls' Ch. 11
Valves and Controls US, a valve manufacturer for the oil and gas industry, has tapped attorneys from Cole Schotz PC and Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP to see it through a Chapter 11 aimed at settling asbestos claims and winding down.
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July 30, 2025
2nd Circ. Backs Live Well Founder's Bond Fraud Convictions
The Second Circuit affirmed convictions for Live Well's founder for inducing lenders to extend credit by jacking up bond valuations to increase its debt and borrow against it, ruling Wednesday jurors had enough evidence to determine he misrepresented the value of collateral to secure loans and did so with fraudulent intent.
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July 30, 2025
Maverick Bet On Casino Turnarounds But Hit Ch. 11 Instead
Maverick Gaming LLC, a company that aimed to turn around struggling casinos and gambling operations, itself fell on hard times due to COVID-19 and competitive pressures, court documents show.
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July 30, 2025
Rhodium Says Cooling System Infringement Claims Barred
Bankrupt cryptocurrency miner Rhodium told a Texas federal bankruptcy judge that a company that creates large scale cooling systems cannot bring patent infringement claims, saying Wednesday the company's claims already failed in a federal district court.
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July 30, 2025
Bedmar Lessor Says 3rd Circ. Clear On Ch. 11 Distress Need
Attorneys representing lessor Cobalt PropCo 2020 LLC told a Delaware bankruptcy judge Wednesday the Chapter 11 case of Bedmar LLC should be tossed because Third Circuit case law clearly requires a debtor to be in financial distress, and that condition does not exist here.
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July 30, 2025
Justices Urged To OK Bankruptcy Courts As Tax Debt Venues
Bankruptcy courts are authorized to decide the amount and legality of nondischargeable tax claims, an Indiana couple told the U.S. Supreme Court in a bid to overturn a Seventh Circuit ruling to the contrary.
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July 30, 2025
Bankruptcy Judge Sends Post-Reorg Dispute To Calif. Court
A Delaware bankruptcy judge has handed a breach of contract lawsuit back to a California state court, saying he lost jurisdiction over the claims against a specialty mushroom distributor after its Chapter 11 plan took effect last fall.
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July 30, 2025
Rising Star: Brown Rudnick's Tristan Axelrod
Tristan Axelrod of Brown Rudnick LLP steered bankrupt cryptocurrency platform BlockFi through an $874 million settlement with FTX and a Chapter 11 reorganization that paid creditors in full, earning him a spot among the bankruptcy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 30, 2025
Biotech Firm Omega Therapeutics Gets OK For Ch. 11 Plan
A Delaware bankruptcy judge approved biotechnology developer Omega Therapeutics' Chapter 11 plan Wednesday, after no objections to the company's plan to distribute its remaining assets were raised at a brief hearing.
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July 29, 2025
Jackson Walker Gets Another Deal On Judge-Romance Claims
Jackson Walker LLP has reached another settlement with former bankruptcy clients to resolve fee disputes related to the concealed romance of a former partner with the firm and former Texas bankruptcy Judge David R. Jones, according to a motion filed Tuesday in Texas federal court.
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July 29, 2025
8th Circ. Says Bankruptcy Sale Appeal Dead Without Stay
The Eighth Circuit on Tuesday rejected a woman's bid to undo an order approving a sale in her Chapter 7 bankruptcy, saying she didn't get a stay of the sale and so her appeal had to be dismissed.
Expert Analysis
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Mental Health First Aid: A Brief Primer For Attorneys
Amid a growing body of research finding that attorneys face higher rates of mental illness than the general population, firms should consider setting up mental health first aid training programs to help lawyers assess mental health challenges in their colleagues and intervene with compassion, say psychologists Shawn Healy and Tracey Meyers.
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AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys
The thing that’s so powerful about artificial intelligence is also what’s most scary about it — its ability to detect patterns may curtail young attorneys’ chance to practice the lower-level work of managing cases, preventing them from ever honing the pattern recognition skills that undergird creative lawyering, says Sarah Murray at Trialcraft.
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Considering Possible PR Risks Of Certain Legal Tactics
Disney and American Airlines recently abandoned certain litigation tactics in two lawsuits after fierce public backlash, illustrating why corporate counsel should consider the reputational implications of any legal strategy and partner with their communications teams to preempt public relations concerns, says Chris Gidez at G7 Reputation Advisory.
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It's No Longer Enough For Firms To Be Trusted Advisers
Amid fierce competition for business, the transactional “trusted adviser” paradigm from which most firms operate is no longer sufficient — they should instead aim to become trusted partners with their most valuable clients, says Stuart Maister at Strategic Narrative.
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Expect More Restaurant Ch. 11s As COVID Debt Comes Due
The wave of restaurant bankruptcies is likely to continue in the coming months as companies face the looming repayment of COVID-19 pandemic-era government loans, an uncertain economy and increased interest rates, says Isaac Marcushamer at DGIM Law.
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Mitigating Risk In Net Asset Value Facility Bankruptcies
In times of economic turbulence, parties to bankruptcy proceedings that involve net asset value facilities can mitigate risk by understanding the purpose of the automatic stay, complications it can create for NAV facility lenders and options for relief, say attorneys at Mayer Brown.
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Tax Traps In Acquisitions Of Financially Distressed Targets
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Parties to the acquisition of an insolvent or bankrupt company face myriad tax considerations, including limitations on using the distressed company's tax benefits, cancellation of indebtedness income, tax lien issues and potential tax reorganizations.
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7 Steps To Take Before Responding To Claim Objections
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When counsel is notified of an objection to the proof of claim in a bankruptcy case, they should contact the client and begin discussing the cost and benefit of responding.
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Tips For Handling Single Asset Real Estate Bankruptcy Cases
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Bankruptcy counsel should consider several strategies when representing either a debtor or lender in single asset real estate debtor Chapter 11 cases, which generally arise when a debtor is forced to file for relief to stop an impending foreclosure sale.
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How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations
Textualists at the U.S. Supreme Court are increasingly considering new methods such as corpus linguistics and surveys to evaluate what a statute's text communicates to an ordinary reader, while lower courts even mull large language models like ChatGPT as supplements, says Kevin Tobia at Georgetown Law.
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Why Attorneys Should Consider Community Leadership Roles
Volunteering and nonprofit board service are complementary to, but distinct from, traditional pro bono work, and taking on these community leadership roles can produce dividends for lawyers, their firms and the nonprofit causes they support, says Katie Beacham at Kilpatrick.
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Ch. 11 Ruling Shows Early Attempt To Tackle Purdue Fallout
A Delaware bankruptcy court’s recent ruling in Parlement Technologies’ Chapter 11 case, which denied a bid by Parler’s former owner to extend its bankruptcy stay to nondebtors, illustrates early efforts to grapple with the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Purdue Pharma for a recurring bankruptcy issue, say Daniel Lowenthal and Jonah Wacholder at Patterson Belknap.
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9 Liability Management Tips As Debt Maturity Cliff Looms
As the debt maturity cliff swiftly approaches in this challenging environment, attorneys at Winston & Strawn highlight the top considerations for boards of directors and finance professionals to think about when structuring and executing liability management transactions, including reviewing capital structure, evaluating debt covenants, and more.