Ch. 11 Cases Follow Auto Loan Fraud Claims From Stellantis
Two new Chapter 11 cases have come on the heels of a lawsuit brought by a Stellantis unit, which alleged the debtors committed auto lending fraud by double-pledging collateral and keeping a fake set of books intended to dupe the lender into providing more financing.
Catching Up With New Bankruptcy Case Action
The maker of spandex is looking to swap its debt for equity in Chapter 11, a longtime book distributor plans to finish winding down operations while its bankruptcy keeps an automatic stay on litigation, and a microbiome treatment developer wants to sell its assets in bankruptcy.
Ch. 11 Venue Shopping Still A Thorn In LoPucki's Side
Lynn LoPucki, a professor at the University of Florida's Levin College of Law, is back. The long-time bankruptcy gadfly stopped work on his public Bankruptcy Research Database of large corporate Chapter 11s in 2022. In the intervening years, his appearances in the pages of the mainstream business press, where he had regularly denounced forum shopping, waned.
Ch. 11 Cases Follow Auto Loan Fraud Claims From Stellantis
Two new Chapter 11 cases have come on the heels of a lawsuit brought by a Stellantis unit, which alleged the debtors committed auto lending fraud by double-pledging collateral and keeping a fake set of books intended to dupe the lender into providing more financing.
Catching Up With New Bankruptcy Case Action
The maker of spandex is looking to swap its debt for equity in Chapter 11, a longtime book distributor plans to finish winding down operations while its bankruptcy keeps an automatic stay on litigation, and a microbiome treatment developer wants to sell its assets in bankruptcy.
Ch. 11 Venue Shopping Still A Thorn In LoPucki's Side
Lynn LoPucki, a professor at the University of Florida's Levin College of Law, is back. The long-time bankruptcy gadfly stopped work on his public Bankruptcy Research Database of large corporate Chapter 11s in 2022. In the intervening years, his appearances in the pages of the mainstream business press, where he had regularly denounced forum shopping, waned.
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