On September 13, 2011, Judge Mary Walrath of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware surprised many parties in interest and observers of the case by issuing an opi...
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Last week the federal banking agencies released interagency supervisory guidance designed to create new, and higher, best practices for counterparty credit risk (CCR) management at bankin...
On June 28, 2011, in a much anticipated decision, a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, in In re River Road Hotel Partners, LLC, affirmed a decision of th...
Late last week, the United States Supreme Court affirmed a 2010 ruling of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and held that a bankruptcy court, as a non-Article III court, did not have the...
Requiring systemically important financial institutions to prepare living wills has the potential to be one of the most effective tools in improving risk management, reducing systemic ris...
On March 23, 2011, the FDIC published its second notice of proposed rulemaking to implement its new Orderly Liquidation Authority (OLA) under Title II of the Dodd-Frank Act. The Second NP...
On February 16, 2011 the Third Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a Delaware bankruptcy court’s 2009 ruling that “commercially reasonable determinants of value” for purposes of measu...
On February 11, 2011, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida quashed a 2009 Bankruptcy Court decision that had ordered certain lenders of Florida-based homebuilder T...
In an important recent decision, In re Champion Enterprises Inc., the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware held that payments made and collateral granted on account of valid...
