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Catching Up With New Bankruptcy Case Action
From Forever 21 to several international businesses, here are some of the debtors in the latest new bankruptcy cases.
Forever 21 Couldn't Keep Up With Faster-Fashion Foes
Forever 21's return to bankruptcy this week follows years of struggles to compete with foreign fast-fashion companies with rapid production schedules and primarily online presences that exposed existential weaknesses in the Los Angeles-based retailer's business, observers told Law360.
US Trustee Leader Ousted, Eletson's Ex-Owners Face Fines
The reported removal of the director of the U.S. Department of Justice's bankruptcy watchdog program has thrown the historically apolitical office into broader waves of upheaval, a bankruptcy judge has said he would impose a daily fine on the former owners of Eletson, and another bankruptcy judge detailed why he overruled objections in Spirit Airlines' Chapter 11 plan. This is the week in bankruptcy.
Catching Up With New Bankruptcy Case Action
From Forever 21 to several international businesses, here are some of the debtors in the latest new bankruptcy cases.
Forever 21 Couldn't Keep Up With Faster-Fashion Foes
Forever 21's return to bankruptcy this week follows years of struggles to compete with foreign fast-fashion companies with rapid production schedules and primarily online presences that exposed existential weaknesses in the Los Angeles-based retailer's business, observers told Law360.
US Trustee Leader Ousted, Eletson's Ex-Owners Face Fines
The reported removal of the director of the U.S. Department of Justice's bankruptcy watchdog program has thrown the historically apolitical office into broader waves of upheaval, a bankruptcy judge has said he would impose a daily fine on the former owners of Eletson, and another bankruptcy judge detailed why he overruled objections in Spirit Airlines' Chapter 11 plan. This is the week in bankruptcy.
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A Texas bankruptcy judge on Tuesday sent Zips Car Wash LLC's Chapter 11 plan out for an April creditor vote with a settlement that could bring up to $5 million in recoveries for unsecured creditors.
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Fast-fashion retailer Forever 21 on Tuesday secured a Delaware bankruptcy judge's approval for motions that put it on track to close more than 300 stores and emerge from its second Chapter 11 in June.
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A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Wednesday gave an Indiana plastic recycling plant permission to make an initial draw on $13 million in Chapter 11 financing as it heads toward a May sale of its assets.
The Office of the U.S. Trustee announced the appointment Tuesday of a four-member committee to represent unsecured creditors in the Texas Chapter 11 case of hydrocarbon driller Scanrock Oil & Gas Inc., includi... (more story)
An ad hoc group of royalty interest owners in the Chapter 11 case of Scanrock Oil & Gas Inc. told a Texas bankruptcy judge Wednesday that they will delay their bid seeking the appointment of an official royalt... (more story)
Plastics alternative maker Danimer Scientific Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware listing about $450 million of debt, saying in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that i... (more story)
A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Tuesday granted interim approval for Village Roadshow, the producer of major films like "The Matrix," to access part of a $12.7 million Chapter 11 financing package from its seni... (more story)
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Austrian biotechnology firm BIA has filed for Chapter 15 protection in Delaware to recover assets in the U.S., alleging an executive fraudulently transferred roughly $22 million in company funds and left it insolvent.