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Restructuring

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Debora Hoehne

Counsel

New York

+1 212 310 8614

debora.hoehne@weil.com

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Chapter 15, Claims, International, Litigation Issues, Pre-Filing Considerations

Clearing a Runway to Litigating Claims: The Principle of Comity and Pre-Litigation Discovery in Chapter 15 Cases

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Ronit J.
Berkovich

Weil Represents Norwegian Air in Obtaining Chapter 15 Recognition of Successful Cross-Border Restructuring

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Case Overviews, Chapter 7 Trustees, International, Rules & Procedures

Fugitive’s French Funds Left Fraught: Ninth Circuit BAP Authorizes Compelled Consent Directives

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Getting off on the Right Foot: Bankruptcy Court Rejects U.S. Trustee’s Unconventional Position That Management Consultant Must be Retained Under Section 327 of the Bankruptcy Code

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Chapter 7 Trustees

Judge Tosses Bad Faith Involuntary Filing Primarily Seeking Management Change

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Avoidance Actions, Jurisdiction & Appeals

Asserting Personal Jurisdiction Over Foreign Banks

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Claims

Bringing Certainty to Uncertainty: Estimation of Tort Claims

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Subordination & Recharacterization

Sentinel Appeal Part II: Seventh Circuit Discusses Equitable Subordination of Non-Insider

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Avoidance Actions

Sentinel Appeal Part I – Seventh Circuit Discusses Inquiry Notice

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Lookback Period

Lookback Period – Six Weeks (Part 2)

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Avoidance Actions

Making a Clean Break, Part II: Tenth Circuit Sheds Light on Reasonably Equivalent Value for Severance

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Avoidance Actions

Making a Clean Break, Part I: Tenth Circuit Sheds Light on When Terminated Officer Ceases to Be Insider

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Litigation Issues

Court Tells Junior Investors in CDO “You Gotta Have Faith” – Good Faith and Fair Dealing, That Is

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Avoidance Actions

Safe No More? Court Vacates Opinion Safe Harboring REMIC Payments

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Claims, Due Process Concerns

Known or Unknown? Third Circuit Questions Standing in New Century Appeal

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363 Sales, Secured Claims

Does Silence Mean Consent? Some Courts Have Found That It Does Not (at Least for Purposes of Sales Under Section 363(f))

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Avoidance Actions

Securitized Loan Payments Safe Harbored Under Section 546(e)

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Breaking the Code

Distributions – Section 1143

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ABI Reform Commission

Making an Exit, Part II: ABI Commission Recommendations on Chapter 11 Plan Content, Voting and Exit Orders

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ABI Reform Commission

Making an Exit, Part I: ABI Commission Recommendations on Chapter 11 Plan Content, Voting and Exit Orders

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Due Process Concerns

Why You May Not Want to Get All Your News From Facebook

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Avoidance Actions, Financing, International

Free Trade, Comity, and the Bankruptcy Code

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Avoidance Actions

Where’s the Beef? (Part II)

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Avoidance Actions

Where’s the Beef? (Part I)

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Avoidance Actions

Double Dipping? Section 503(b)(9) and the New Value Defense to Preference Liability

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Foreign Debtor Eligibility for Chapter 15: The Second Circuit’s Gateway Requirements May Not Limit Access After All

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363 Sales, Avoidance Actions, Valuation

“Keep Calm and Carry On”: “Panicked” Asset Sale Not Inconsistent With Good Faith Finding for Constructive Fraudulent Transfer Analysis

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Claims, Utilities

“Call Me [a Good,] Maybe”

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No More Separation Anxiety – Court Confirms Operational Separateness of Bankruptcy Remote Entity

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Chapter 11 Plans, Secured Claims

The Cramdown Matrix: Reloaded

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Chapter 11 Plans, Secured Claims

Reorganizing a “Refuge from Home Life”: Debtor Rides Rising Hotel Market to Cramdown Confirmation

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Avoidance Actions, Financing

“Show Me the Money (or Money’s Worth)” — Divided Court of Appeals Finds New Value Defense Protects Surety’s Use of Loan Proceeds

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Insurance, Jurisdiction & Appeals, Mass Torts

Other People’s Money – Revisited (Or, When Do Insurers Have Standing to Challenge a Bankruptcy Plan?)

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Putting Bankruptcy Remoteness on Trial in the Seventh Circuit – Defining the Parameters of “Operational Separateness” for an SPE

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The Politics of Municipal Bankruptcy

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Chapter 11 Plans, Secured Claims

All or Nothing? Bankruptcy Court Determines that the Partial Surrender of Collateral to a Secured Creditor Is Not the Indubitable Equivalent of the Secured Creditor’s Claim

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Jurisdiction & Appeals

“It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over”: Final Orders Appealable Under 28 U.S.C. § 158(d)

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Jurisdiction & Appeals

Other People’s Money (Part II)

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Insurance, Jurisdiction & Appeals, Mass Torts

Other People’s Money (Part I)

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Chapter 11 Plans, Jurisdiction & Appeals

Potential to Increase Size of Post-Confirmation Trust Is Insufficient Basis for Exercise of Bankruptcy Court Jurisdiction

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Avoidance Actions

Attorneys Beware! Good Faith Required for “Mere Conduit” or Control Exception to Initial Transferee Liability

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Has Bankruptcy Remoteness Become, Well, More Remote in the Seventh Circuit?

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Avoidance Actions

Trustees Beware! Securitization Trustees May Be Liable for Fraudulent Transfers

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Every Debtor Has a CoMI

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Chapter 9, Labor & Employment

Rejection of Collective Bargaining Agreements in Chapter 9 Cases

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