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Meet The Attys Directing Solar Tech Firm SunPower's Ch. 11
SunPower, once one of the largest solar panel manufacturers in the U.S., has hired lawyers from Richards Layton & Finger PA and Kirkland & Ellis LLP, as the company attempts to sell its assets through its Chapter 11 case in Delaware.
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Behind The Ch. 15 Filing Of Immunology Co. VBI Vaccines
After accumulating more than half a billion dollars of deficits over its history, VBI Vaccines, a developer of COVID-19 and hepatitis B vaccines, was unable to avoid bankruptcy court as it sought to consummate a sale of some of its assets.
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Ex-Judge Jones, Jackson Walker To Defend Meeting
Former U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David R. Jones and Jackson Walker LLP will have to explain during a hearing Wednesday why they had an "off-the-record" conversation with each other in July, as a messy court case stemming from Jones' secret romance with a onetime lawyer at the firm hits several hurdles during discovery.
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Venture capital firm Highland Capital and a company owned by Highland co-founder James Dondero squared off before a Fifth Circuit panel on Tuesday, debating whether a jury was needed to weigh defenses against ... (more story)
A Texas bankruptcy judge shut down a bid from JCPenney's bankruptcy administrator to subpoena former Judge David R. Jones' cellphone records in a partially sealed hearing Wednesday in connection with Jones' se... (more story)
A Delaware bankruptcy judge said on Wednesday that she needed more time to consider how to handle a claim against the Boy Scouts of America that was filed late by a man who missed the deadline because he said ... (more story)
A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Wednesday said he won't stop a former executive of the troubled U.S.-based affiliate of Indian educational technology giant Byju's from paying off a $20 million debt that had lan... (more story)
Attorneys for a lending agent pursuing a $127 million judgment from an auto parts mogul asked a Michigan federal judge Tuesday to deny the mogul and his bankrupt company's attempts to keep key documents privat... (more story)
Residential solar technology company SunPower Corp. on Wednesday got the approval of a Delaware bankruptcy court for a slate of customary first-day motions, including a bid to use cash collateral from existing... (more story)
The Beasley Allen Law Firm, the steering committee of talc plaintiffs suing Johnson & Johnson, and a third-party law firm urged the New Jersey federal court this week to reject a bid from the pharmaceutical co... (more story)
The former team leader of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP's bankruptcy and financial restructuring practice has departed the firm after more than three decades to move to Eversheds Sutherland in Atlanta as ... (more story)
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP announced Wednesday that it has boosted its litigation bench in Dallas with a pair of attorneys who came aboard from Mackie Wolf Zientz & Mann PC.
The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday reversed a district court decision that granted a partial refund of $600,000 in fees a tobacco distributor paid to the U.S. Trustee's Office, noting that the U.S. Supreme Court fou... (more story)
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has accused the founders of the Urban Commons real estate investment trust of running a pair of fraud schemes involving investments in U.S.-based hotels that the reg... (more story)
A Texas bankruptcy judge on Wednesday approved Italian restaurant chain Buca di Beppo to accept debtor-in-possession financing totaling $10.85 million on an interim basis, saying the combination of new money a... (more story)
Bar and restaurant chain World of Beer received a Florida bankruptcy judge's initial approval on a package of first-day motions Wednesday, including a request to tap up to $2 million in debtor-in-possession fi... (more story)
A New York bankruptcy judge said Wednesday creditors' votes in favor of the Chapter 11 plan of Acorda Therapeutics constitute consent in granting third-party releases, overruling the position of the United Sta... (more story)
A resort residence complex on the Caribbean island and British Overseas Territory of Anguilla, now facing a $15 million claim tied to an attack on the child of a guest family in 2015, is seeking Chapter 11 pro... (more story)
A California bankruptcy trustee overseeing the failed debt relief law firm Litigation Practice Group has told the court he deserves the maximum fee amount and possibly a bonus due to the "herculean" efforts of... (more story)
A pool parts supplier on the hook for a $16 million false advertising and unfair business practices judgment isn't entitled to attorney fees in the case, a North Carolina federal judge has ruled, finding there... (more story)
The operator of film, fashion and lifestyle cable network Cinemoi has filed for Chapter 11 protection in a California bankruptcy court with more than $10 million in debt.
Cellphone maker Motorola and a phone and internet provider cannot get coverage for more than $1.5 million in judgments they won against a defunct marketing services company from that company's insurer, a Minne... (more story)
A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Tuesday ordered the city of San Jose, California, to dismiss a state court action seeking the payment of taxes and other obligations by the former operator of a luxury hotel, say... (more story)