Basics for Beginners
Dealing with Distress for Fun & Profit— Installment #18—How to Confirm a Chapter 11 Plan
A written tour of business bankruptcy and its alternatives. This is the latest in the series, Dealing with Distress for Fun & Profit, which you can read from the beginning if you like. In this bat-installment, we turn to what is, theoretically, one of the most important parts of any chapter 11 case: confirming […]
Dealing With Distress for Fun & Profit – Installment #17 – Overview of DIP Financing and Cash Collateral Motions
There is a seeming irony here in that a company that files for bankruptcy often does not have the cash to do so. That’s where DIP financing comes in.
Dealing With Distress for Fun & Profit – Installment #16 – Super and Residual Priorities
This series was started with a broad overview of business bankruptcy, but our last few installments have focused on: unsecured creditors the priority scheme in bankruptcy protecting/collecting your claim In this installment, we draw on our discussion of the priority scheme, with a special focus on super and residual priorities. As previously discussed, not all […]
Dealing With Distress for Fun & Profit – Installment #15 – Protecting Your Bankruptcy Claim
This series was started (click here to read from the beginning) with a broad overview of business bankruptcy but our last few installments have focused on unsecured creditors (click here to read about unsecured creditors) and the priority scheme in bankruptcy (click here for the 30,000-foot view or you can find more specific treatment here, here and here). In this […]
Dealing with Distress For Fun & Profit – Installment #14 – An Introduction to Chapter 11 for Unsecured Creditors: What Every Unsecured Creditor Should Know
A written tour of business bankruptcy and its alternatives. If you would like to read from the beginning, this series started here with a broad overview of business bankruptcy. Most recently, the series has focused on the automatic stay, where you can find the 30,000-foot view. Or you can find more specific treatment here, here and […]
Dealing With Distress For Fun & Profit – Installment #13 – The Priority Scheme of Bankruptcy
A written tour of business bankruptcy and its alternatives We started this series (click here to start reading from the beginning) with a broad overview of business bankruptcy but our last several installments have focused on one small, albeit important, aspect- the automatic stay. We’ve heard from a number of readers that they would like […]
Dealing With Distress For Fun & Profit – Installment #12 – Stay Relief Strategy?
A written tour of business bankruptcy and its alternatives Editors’ Note: If you are a regular reader of this column, you will know that this is the third installment in a row about the automatic stay (it is a big topic and we didn’t want to lay too much on you at once). If you’re […]
Dealing With Distress For Fun & Profit – Installment #11 – Is Stay Relief Necessary?
A written tour of business bankruptcy and its alternatives Our most recent installment in this series gives an overview of the automatic stay. In this installment we dive a little deeper, and we start with this question: how do you know when a contemplated action would violate the stay and, thus, require stay relief before the […]
Dealing With Distress For Fun & Profit – Installment #10 – About the Automatic Stay
A written tour of business bankruptcy and its alternatives We discussed the automatic stay from the perspective of a secured creditor in Installment #9 of this series.This time we pan the camera back and look at the automatic stay from a broader and more general perspective. It is sometimes said that the two primary objectives […]
Dealing With Distress For Fun & Profit – Installment #9 – Secured Creditors & Chapter 11
A written tour of business bankruptcy and its alternatives Our prior installment discussed some of the basic things a secured creditor needs to know about Chapter 11. The automatic stay was one of them. But, since we like to keep these things short (on the presumption that others also have short attention spans) we didn’t […]