Bankruptcy and Insolvency News and Analysis – Week Ending September 25, 2015

25 Sep Bankruptcy and Insolvency News and Analysis – Week Ending September 25, 2015

Case Commencement

Guernsey Dairy Opinion – Allowing WARN Claims to Arise May Breach a Director’s Duty

Venue and Compensation

Stakeholders Have Mixed Views on Attorneys’ Fee Guidelines and Venue Selection for Large Chapter 11 Cases

What Happens In The Bahamas – – Stays In The Bahamas

Creditors’ Expenses Can Be Reimbursed in Ch. 7 Case

Automatic Stay

District Court Holds that Assignee is Not Entitled to Safe Harbor Protections

Claims and Administrative Expenses

Checkmate: Trumping a Supplier’s Administrative Claim

REEXAMINING THE EQUITABLE POWERS OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT AFTER LAW V. SIEGEL

Sales

Third Circuit Approves Use of Escrow Agreements Funded by Acquirers to Pay Junior Creditors Before Senior Creditors

So Long as It’s Your Own Money — Third Circuit Allows Secured Creditors to Gift Value to Junior Creditors to Resolve Sale Objection Even When More Senior Creditors Receive Nothing

Confirmation and Discharge

Putative Class Actions in Bankruptcy for Violations of the Discharge Injunction and Bankruptcy Code Section 524(j)

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