ABI Journal: Large Retail Liquidations Likely To Continue
The ABI Journal reports that the trend of liquidation rather than reorganization in the retail industry is likely to continue.
The ABI Journal reports that the trend of liquidation rather than reorganization in the retail industry is likely to continue.
A commentary by Bill Rochelle of the American Bankruptcy Institute on the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s interpretation of bankruptcy law.
According to Epiq Systems, there were 2,576 commercial chapter 11 filings in the first half of 2015, down 15% from 3,046 during the same period in 2014.
The ABI board of directors named James Patrick Shea of Armstrong Teasdale (Las Vegas) to be president for a one-year term which began during ABI’s 2015 Annual Spring Meeting.
Panelists will discuss Chapter 11 reform, transforming credit risk, and strategies for corporate renewal and restructuring at the Credit & Bankruptcy Symposium.
ABI presented Professor Michelle M. Harner of the University of Maryland School of Law with its highest membership award, the ABI Annual Service Award.
The ABI elected officers and directors during ABI’s 33rd Annual Spring Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Prof. Anne Lawton of Michigan State University College of Law (East Lansing, Mich.) will serve as the Robert M. Zinman ABI Resident Scholar for the spring 2015 semester.
The looming maturity of large numbers of commercial mortgage-backed securities is a signal to borrowers/professionals involved in commercial loans to be prepared for a potential crisis, according to the November edition of the ABI Journal .
ABI’s Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11 will hold public debates at the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges 88th Annual Meeting in Chicago.