Meet The Attys For FAT Brands' Official Creditors Committee
A team of seasoned Paul Hastings LLP professionals is representing the official committee of unsecured creditors of restaurant franchisor FAT Brands Inc. in Texas bankruptcy court.
Under The Radar: Bankruptcy News You May Have Missed
Investment firm Jump Trading and its co-founder moved for dismissal of a lawsuit from the administrator for bankrupt cryptocurrency company Terraform Labs. A New Mexico industrial building owner is appealing a New York bankruptcy judge's approval of a disclosure statement from a secured creditor. And the new owner of fundraising technology company Flipcause sought to reassure nonprofits that it would run the platform differently than its previous operator.
Meet The Attys In Biotech Biz Finch's Ch. 11
A team of attorneys from Chipman Brown Cicero & Cole LLP and Ropes & Gray LLP is steering the Chapter 11 case of Finch Therapeutics, a company that develops treatments to improve the health of the body's microbiome.
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Apollo, Ares, BlackRock and other major financial companies have denied Optimum Communications' claims accusing them of "bullying" Kirkland & Ellis LLP into withdrawing as the telecommunications company's tran... (more story)
Polsinelli PC said Thursday that it has hired a longtime McDermott Will & Schulte LLP attorney to co-lead its special situations and alternative investment practice, saying the move "further advanc[es] the fir... (more story)
A New Jersey federal judge has disqualified the Beasley Allen Law Firm from representing hundreds of plaintiffs in sprawling multidistrict litigation over Johnson & Johnson's talc-based baby powder, holding th... (more story)
A company operating Eddie Bauer retail stores said Friday it will increase funding for unsecured creditors in its Chapter 11 plan from $250,000 to up to $3 million after securing a deal with its lenders and cr... (more story)
Label-maker Multi-Color Corp. got approval Friday for half of the $125 million in Chapter 11 financing it was seeking after a New Jersey bankruptcy judge signed off on a proposal that also cut the rollup of pr... (more story)
Two former Kirkland & Ellis LLP restructuring attorneys have joined Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP as partners in the capital structure solutions practice.
A New Jersey bankruptcy judge on Thursday said he wasn't ready to give final approval to a debt rollup proposed in Multi-Color Corp.'s Chapter 11 case, throwing into question one of the postpetition financing ... (more story)
Three U.S. senators are backing the asbestos claimants of Bestwall in their bid to take their challenge of the Georgia-Pacific spinoff's so-called Texas two-step bankruptcy to the U.S. Supreme Court, saying th... (more story)
Apple Tree Life Sciences, a biotechnology investor that filed for bankruptcy in December in a protracted feud with a Russian billionaire, asked a Delaware court on Wednesday to let it solicit bids for at least... (more story)
A judge in the Eastern District of Texas denied a bid by cryptocurrency mining company Core Scientific Inc. to move a case accusing it of infringing cryptography patents to the Western District of Texas, sayin... (more story)
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A Delaware bankruptcy judge approved motions Friday allowing e-commerce group Food52 to send its Chapter 11 liquidation plan out for a creditor vote, overruling an objection by the U.S. Trustee's Office to the... (more story)
An Indian pharmaceutical company is accusing bankrupt New Jersey generic-drug developer InvaTech Pharma Solutions of pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars of payments due to the Indian company that it rec... (more story)
The U.S. Trustee's Office and a group of creditors have urged a New York bankruptcy judge to reject mining company Vanderbilt Minerals' bid to retain Jones Day as counsel, arguing the law firm is conflicted be... (more story)
Cryptocurrency firm BlockFills secured a Delaware bankruptcy judge's permission Thursday to temporarily block a lawsuit from creditors alleging the company and three current and former executives failed to pro... (more story)
Bonds Ellis Eppich Schafer Jones LLP has added a former Michael Best & Friedrich LLP attorney with deep experience in bankruptcy, restructuring and complex civil litigation as a partner in Fort Worth.
A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Thursday stayed actions against the U.S. subsidiaries of Cannabist Company Holdings as the bankrupt Canadian company moves to sell its assets or wind them down.
Investors in bankrupt electric vehicle company Arrival have gotten final approval for their nearly $13.3 million deal ending claims the company touted a purportedly profitable business plan as it went public v... (more story)
Two taxpayer groups and a tax counsel association urged the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a woman's appeal over liabilities triggered by a fraudulent preparer, arguing the Third Circuit decision in the case misre... (more story)
Former CEOs of bankrupt electric-truck maker Nikola Corp. can't hit pause on proposed investor class action claims they face while related claims against the company are stayed amid its bankruptcy proceedings,... (more story)
Microbiome treatment developer Finch Therapeutics told a Delaware bankruptcy judge Wednesday that its lack of income or ability to collect on a patent judgment justified its Chapter 11 filing despite a lack of secured debts.