Three Faces of Creditor-on-Creditor Aggression

DG Baird - Am. Bankr. LJ, 2023 - HeinOnline
Creditor-on-creditor aggression has become the central pathology of modern Chapter 11
reorganizations. Distressed debt investors operate under few external constraints and are …

[PDF][PDF] The Credit Markets Go Dark

JA Ellias, E de Fontenay - Public Law …, 2024 - law-economic-studies.law.columbia …
The ownership, governance, and financing of corporate America look radically different
today than they did only a few decades ago. By now, we have become accustomed to the …

Efficacious Answers to the Non-Pro Rata Workout

VSJ Buccola - U. Pa. L. Rev., 2022 - HeinOnline
Perhaps no recent development in financial restructuring has inspired as much cynical eye-
rolling as the non-pro rata workout. A non-pro rata transaction, like a conventional out-of …

Getting to Yes: The Role of Coercion in Debt Renegotiations

VSJ Buccola - University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for …, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
A debt contract's value depends on the parties' ability to alter its terms. But although the rules
of alteration are for that reason an important part of the design of debt instruments, the …

The Gift of Exit Financing

R Miller - Available at SSRN 5041522, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
Hostile restructurings have spilled over into bankruptcy court and exit financing is often the
prize in the center of the arena. Debtors no longer rely upon gifting, the traditional strategy …

When Money Isn't Money: The Second Circuit's Gutting of the Discharge-For-Value Defense for Erroneous Payments

JL Schroeder - Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
There is triangle among a bankrupt debtor, its general creditors, and third parties. Who can
sue third parties for wrongdoing? The trustee wants to recover damages distributable pro …