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After four long years, Australia-based Centro Properties Group (“CNP”) has consummated a global restructuring that combines a debt-for-equity swap with an aggregation of its assets into a new real estate investment trust, Centro Retail Australia (“CRF”). Bracewell & Giuliani was first...

After four long years, Australia-based Centro Properties Group (“CNP”) has consummated a global restructuring that combines a debt-for-equity swap with an aggregation of its assets into a new real estate investment trust, Centro Retail Australia (“CRF”). Bracewell & Giuliani was first...

Bracewell & Giuliani LLP announced today it won a major bankruptcy verdict on behalf of Netherlands-based global maritime shipping company Marco Polo Seatrade BV and three of its affiliates in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. The decision rendered by U.S....

Bracewell & Giuliani LLP announced today it won a major bankruptcy verdict on behalf of Netherlands-based global maritime shipping company Marco Polo Seatrade BV and three of its affiliates in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. The decision rendered by U.S....

The enforcement of triangular setoffs in bankruptcy, where affiliates set off their claims against the debtor, received another setback in a recent decision in the Lehman bankruptcy cases. See In re Lehman Brothers Inc., No. 08-01420 (JMP) (SIPA), 2011 WL 4553015 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y....

The enforcement of triangular setoffs in bankruptcy, where affiliates set off their claims against the debtor, received another setback in a recent decision in the Lehman bankruptcy cases. See In re Lehman Brothers Inc., No. 08-01420 (JMP) (SIPA), 2011 WL 4553015 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. Oct. 4,...

Much has already been written about the "insider trading" aspects of Judge Walrath's September 13 Opinion denying confirmation of WaMu's Chapter 11 plan of reorganization (the Opinion can be found HERE). In a nutshell, Judge Walrath expressed the view that a person in possession of MNPI (material...

Much has already been written about the "insider trading" aspects of Judge Walrath's September 13 Opinion denying confirmation of WaMu's Chapter 11 plan of reorganization (the Opinion can be found HERE). In a nutshell, Judge Walrath expressed the view that a person in possession of MNPI (material...

Argentine debtors are now subject to employee take-over under the nation’s recently amended bankruptcy code, signed into law by the nation's President, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Argentine Bankruptcy Law 24,522 as amended by Law No. 26,684,1 allows employees of a bankrupt company who have...

Argentine debtors are now subject to employee take-over under the nation’s recently amended bankruptcy code, signed into law by the nation's President, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Argentine Bankruptcy Law 24,522 as amended by Law No. 26,684,1 allows employees of a bankrupt company who have...