March 17, 2025
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.
March 12, 2025
A New York bankruptcy judge on Wednesday ordered the prebankruptcy shareholders of Greek shipping group Eletson Holdings to end their opposition to overseas recognition of the company's Chapter 11 plan or pay $5,000 a day in fines.
March 07, 2025
A New York bankruptcy judge has declined to pause Greek shipping group Eletson Holdings' Chapter 11 plan while its former owners appeal the plan's confirmation, handing the company's current management a win as they seek to compel the ex-leadership to enforce the plan.
February 21, 2025
Sticky's Chicken asked a New York bankruptcy judge to flip its Chapter 11 case to a Chapter 7 after cold and congestion pricing undercut its plans to reemerge from bankruptcy a healthier company, a former Silicon Valley Bank employee asked a bankruptcy judge to approve her late submission of a claim in the bankruptcy case of SVB's defunct parent and FTX defended adversary cases it brought over alleged fraud in the debtor's prebankruptcy acquisition of a stock trading platform.
February 20, 2025
The former owners and managers of Greek shipping group Eletson Holdings Inc. have until Monday to comply with the orders of a New York bankruptcy judge concerning the change in ownership of the business under a court-approved Chapter 11 plan, or they will face daily monetary sanctions.
February 06, 2025
Former shareholders and executives of Greek shipping group Eletson Holdings Inc. asked a New York bankruptcy judge for more time to comply with last month's order directing them to assist in updating the reorganized company's address of record with the Liberian International Ship & Corporate Registry.
January 29, 2025
A New York bankruptcy judge Wednesday agreed to delay a hearing on Reed Smith's fees in the Eletson Holdings bankruptcy case while the reorganized debtor probes Reed Smith's alleged past ties with Eletson executives.
January 27, 2025
From a looming settlement in the Purdue bankruptcy to a pair of retailers overcoming objections to their Chapter 11 plans, here are some of the biggest bankruptcy news from the past week.
January 24, 2025
A New York bankruptcy judge on Friday ruled former shareholders and executives of Greek shipping group Eletson Holdings Inc. must comply with the court's confirmed Chapter 11 plan, directing them to assist in updating the reorganized company's address of record with the Liberian International Ship & Corporate Registry.
January 13, 2025
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was held in contempt for a second time, Johnson & Johnson's bankrupt spinoff called Brown Rudnick's bid to represent an official committee of talc claimants "an ethical violation," and the federal government objected to a $535 million settlement that bankrupt talc supplier Whittaker Clark & Daniels reached regarding talc claims in its New Jersey Chapter 11 case.