December 2015

In today’s post, we’ll shift away from the big Delaware cases and focus on a critical “small business debtor” Chapter 11 provision. Over the past 6 years, our firm hasn’t filed many small business cases, mostly because many of our debtors were real estate debtors and, thus, definitionally excluded from the small business category. However,

This will be a short Christmas post. We just couldn’t resist the urge to follow-up on our Thanksgiving filing figures by looking-up Christmas filings.

Like Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day is a popular day for bankruptcy filings, just not as popular as Thanksgiving. There were over 2 times more Thanksgiving filings than Christmas filings over the

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(Indian guest workers protesting alleged human trafficking by Signal International)

Last week, Judge Walrath, a Delaware bankruptcy judge, entered her order confirming the Plan of Liquidation in the Signal International, Inc. Chapter 11. For the backstory on Signal’s July 12, 2015 filing, the Morris James Delaware Business Bankruptcy Report has you covered. The