If you want to get up to speed on corportate bankruptcy-related issues, check out Basic Bankruptcy Issues: A Primer for In-House Counsel, which was written by Carmen Lonstein, Esq. of Baker & McKenize.   This primer is intended to provide guidance on basic business bankruptcy issues to in-house counsel with a limited background in bankruptcy matters and [...]

Financial actors such as hedge funds increasingly influence large Chapter 11 cases, such as Chrysler’s and GM’s. With Chrysler LLC’s sale to Fiat SpA past the U.S. Supreme Court, and with General Motors Corp. commencing its own “surgical” bankruptcy on the Chrysler model, it may be tempting to think that we’ve turned a corner: Tentative [...]