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February 23, 2026
Asbestos claimants of Georgia-Pacific spinoff Bestwall have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up their challenge to Bestwall's "Texas two-step" bankruptcy, saying the Fourth Circuit created an "erroneous legal standard that incentivizes forum-shopping" when it allowed Bestwall to stay in Chapter 11 last year.
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February 23, 2026
A bankrupt Nevada solar project named a prospective bidder chosen to secure at least $7 million in a Chapter 11 asset auction.
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February 23, 2026
Legal fee feuds, noncompete pact breach fights and post-closing "earnout" battles piled up in Delaware's equity and commercial law venues last week, with top jurists briefing lawmakers on efforts to better manage crowded dockets and expanded benches.
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February 23, 2026
Luxury retailer Saks can access the final portion of a more than $5 billion Chapter 11 loan, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland and its creditors' committee will submit competing Chapter 11 plans, and a biotech firm says a last-minute bid change has stifled bankruptcy auction competition.
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February 23, 2026
Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP announced Monday the firm is expanding its ranks with the addition of two new partners to its Los Angeles office: a land use whiz from Jeffer Mangels & Mitchell LLP and a transactional ace from Prospera Law LLP.
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February 23, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to review a religious organization's constitutional challenge against the Internal Revenue Service over a lien on church property to collect taxes owed by the group's bankrupt founder and her family.
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February 23, 2026
A New York-based purveyor of sand and stone aggregates sought Chapter 11 protection Friday, with over $32 million in liabilities and almost $1.3 million in assets.
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February 23, 2026
Natural gas compression equipment provider Axip Energy Services has filed for Chapter 11 protection in a Texas bankruptcy court, saying it has secured an offer to sell its assets to deal with its $240.5 million in funded debt.
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February 20, 2026
A San Francisco federal judge has dismissed Yotta Technology's lawsuit accusing Evolve Bank & Trust of operating a Ponzi scheme on the grounds that it can't proceed in federal court without now-defunct fintech intermediary Synapse Financial Technologies as a party, but the judge held it could be refiled in state court.
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February 20, 2026
New Orleans-based firm McGlinchey Stafford PLLC, which announced last month that it's winding down operations after more than half a century, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy with more than $10 million in liabilities owed to former staff and attorneys, workplace vendors, financial institutions and other creditors.
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February 20, 2026
Clearside Biomedical has urged a Delaware bankruptcy judge to block a KKR & Co.-owned firm from credit bidding some $100 million in allegedly secured debt in its Chapter 11 auction, saying the last-minute offer amounted to an "ambush" that "froze" competition.
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February 20, 2026
Auto lender PrimaLend Capital can head toward a Chapter 11 exit after a Texas bankruptcy judge on Friday approved a plan incorporating two credit bid sales of its loan portfolios and establishing a liquidating trust.
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February 20, 2026
Bankruptcy courts are set to tackle issues ranging from whether Saks Global's Chapter 11 precludes a landlord from reclaiming properties, MMA Law's plan to sell tort claim interests to another law firm, and Tilson Technology Management Inc.'s request to conclude its Chapter 11 case.
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February 20, 2026
A Delaware bankruptcy judge signed an order confirming the Chapter 11 plan of recreational vehicle refrigerator maker Norcold LLC Friday after the company filed update plan documents reflecting a change to the liquidating trustee.
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February 20, 2026
Companies with oppressive levels of debt are increasingly skipping Chapter 11 and restructuring overseas to obtain relief unavailable under U.S. bankruptcy law, using what some foreign courts and experts have called "good forum shopping" to select a preferred venue while keeping their operating business safe at home.
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February 20, 2026
The Beasley Allen Law Firm can't delay an order disqualifying it from representing hundreds of women who claim their ovarian cancer was caused by Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder while it seeks review from the New Jersey Supreme Court, a state judge ruled on Friday.
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February 20, 2026
Bankrupt recycler Aleon Metals LLC received conditional approval of its Chapter 11 plan disclosure statement Friday in a Texas court, clearing the way for the company to solicit creditor votes on the joint proposal of the debtor and its official committee of unsecured creditors.
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February 20, 2026
Pryor Cashman LLP announced that an experienced attorney who has served in leadership roles in his nearly 20 years with the firm has been elected to a three-year term as a member of its executive committee.
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February 20, 2026
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is planning to plant a second flag in the Lone Star State with a shop in Dallas after launching a capital structure solutions practice with a New York-based partner who came aboard from Kirkland & Ellis LLP at the helm.
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February 20, 2026
A Delaware bankruptcy judge Friday gave Village Roadshow, the film producer behind "The Matrix" and "Ocean's Eleven," permission to send its Chapter 11 liquidation plan out for a creditor vote, overriding objections from the U.S. Trustee's Office to the plan's third-party releases.
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February 19, 2026
In agreeing to pay $180 million to a trust for clergy sexual abuse survivors, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden, New Jersey, and its insurers took a big step toward ending a longtime dispute that put bankruptcy proceedings at the center of victim compensation.
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February 19, 2026
Two former executives at Mobileum Inc., which went through bankruptcy in 2024, were charged by federal prosecutors with fraud tied to the company's $915 million sale about two years before. Meanwhile, a group of noteholders raised concerns about telecom company Oi SA's sale plans in Brazil, and PosiGen was hit with objections to its Chapter 11 plan ahead of a confirmation hearing next week.
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February 19, 2026
A Canadian flavored air device company is asking a Nevada bankruptcy judge to recognize the Canadian insolvency proceedings it began earlier this month after falling behind in payments from the settlement of a U.S. trademark infringement suit.
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February 19, 2026
A Delaware bankruptcy judge signaled his intent to confirm the proposed liquidating plan of recreational vehicle refrigerator distributor Norcold LLC on Friday, but raised concerns with the choice of liquidating trustee under that plan that led him to delay signing a confirmation order.
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February 19, 2026
A Texas bankruptcy judge Thursday said she would sign off on rent-to-own retailer Buddy Mac Holdings' two Chapter 11 sales, bringing in $1.1 million in cash and a credit bid from its secured lender.