Best of ABI 2019: The Year in Business Bankruptcy

About the Editor

• ABOUT THE EDITOR

Acknowledgments

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Chapter 1 - New Roadmap For Small Businesses - Sbra Enactment

• CHAPTER 1, A. SBRA: Eligibility, Governance and Oversight
• CHAPTER 1, B. Examining the Role of Reorganization Trustees in Light of the New Subchapter V Standing Trustee

Chapter 10 - Emerging Trends - a/I and Analytics

• The Duty of Competence in Using Artificial Intelligence
• CHAPTER 10, B. Applying Data Analytics Within Retail Restructurings

Chapter 2 - Hot Topics In Health Care Restructurings

• CHAPTER 2, A. Restructuring a Distressed Health Care Portfolio Company
• CHAPTER 2, B. Considerations for Non-Physician-Owned Health Care Practices
• CHAPTER 2, C. Planning Cash Flow in Health Care Bankruptcies
• CHAPTER 2, D. Circuit Splits over Medicare Claims

Chapter 3 - Where In the World? International Issues Abound

• CHAPTER 3, A. Chapter 15 Primer: Learning the Global Chess Game
• CHAPTER 3, B. Global Practitioners Beware
• CHAPTER 3, C. Are Chapter 15's Principles of "Universalism" Too Parochial for the Realities of Today's Global Economy?
• CHAPTER 3, D. Foreign Company Restructurings: There's No Place Like Home
• CHAPTER 3, E. Judge, I've Got a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore (or Moscow, Either)
• CHAPTER 3, F. Offshore Courts and the Emerging Role of COMI in Recognition
• CHAPTER 3, G. OPECalypse Now and the World Economy
• CHAPTER 3, H. Asymmetric Discovery in Chapter 15
• CHAPTER 3, I. Will Recent UNCITRAL Projects Impact U.Bankruptcy Practice?

Chapter 4 - Ip Traps and Tricks

• CHAPTER 4, A. Intellectual Property: Issues and Opportunities in Bankruptcy
• CHAPTER 4, B. Can a Licensee Keep Trademark Rights After Rejection?
• CHAPTER 4, C. Assumption and Assignment of Intellectual Property
• CHAPTER 4, D. Tempnology: Trademark License Rejection in Chapter 11
• CHAPTER 4, E. Rejection of Songwriter Publishing Agreements in Bankruptcy

Chapter 5 - Intersection of Bankruptcy and Employment Law

• CHAPTER 5, A. What Changed After KERPs Were Banned by Congress?
• CHAPTER 5, B. Bankrupt with a Pension Plan? Here's What to Expect
• CHAPTER 5, C. The World of Bankruptcy Compensation for Key Employees
• CHAPTER 5, D. Eleventh Circuit Affirms Use of § 1114 in Liquidating Chapter 11s

Chapter 6 - When Adr and Bankruptcy Collide

• CHAPTER 6, A. Bankruptcy Court's Authority to Mandate Mediation and Scope of Good-Faith Participation
• CHAPTER 6, B. Is Arbitration in Bankruptcy Cases a Viable ADR Option?
• CHAPTER 6, C. When an Agreement Is Reached, Is the Mediator's Job Over?
• CHAPTER 6, D. Bound to Arbitrate? Arbitration Agreements in Light of Supreme Court Decisions
• CHAPTER 6, E. Mediating Valuation Disputes

Chapter 7 - Operating In

• CHAPTER 7, A. Should the Appointment of an Unsecured Creditors' Committee Be Made Optional in Chapter 11?
• CHAPTER 7, B. The New Hidden Cost of Chapter 11
• CHAPTER 7, C. Navigating the Pitfalls of Chapter 11 Deposit Management
• CHAPTER 7, D. The Lender Games
• CHAPTER 7, E. Automatic Contracts and the Automatic Stay

Chapter 8 - Plan Issues

• CHAPTER 8, A. Prepackaged Plans in 24 Hours
• CHAPTER 8, B. A Solution for Future Claims, Notice Issues and "Unimpaired" Plans
• CHAPTER 8, C. A Billion Can't Always Buy You a Third-Party Release
• CHAPTER 8, D. Chapter 11's Double Whammy on Individual Debtors
• CHAPTER 8, E. Act Fast on Appeal of Confirmed Plan Before Equitable Mootness

Chapter 9 - Assume or Reject? Tackling Leases and Executory Contracts

• CHAPTER 9, A. Rejecting Power-Purchase Agreements in Energy Cases
• CHAPTER 9, B. Administrative Expense Priority of Post-Petition Lease Payments
• CHAPTER 9, C. Section 365(d)(3): More Bark or Bite?

Introduction

• INTRODUCTION

Sidebar - Make Wholes

• MAKE WHOLES, A. Recent Developments Regarding Make-Whole Provisions
• MAKE WHOLES, B. Make-Whole Premiums
• MAKE WHOLES, B. Ultra Petroleum: A New Perspective on Make-Whole Premiums