The Restructuring Report

Minnesota’s beer industry faces significant financial obstacles, but certain financial tools may allow craft breweries to weather the storm and ensure their survival.

Minnesota recently legalized cannabis sale and use, creating a new legal industry almost overnight. Businesses in any new industry will necessarily face financial challenges, but with bankruptcy options limited for cannabis-related entities, can receivership law provide a mechanism for assisting these types of companies?

What steps should creditors take to best understand their rights and ensure they are as fully protected as possible both before and after a cryptocurrency bankruptcy case is filed.

Small businesses face ever-increasing financial distress from a number of different factors, including price inflation, supply chain issues, and workforce changes. How widespread are these issues and what will their impact be on small businesses in the future?  

Some debtors are taking advantage of a Texas fraudulent transfer law that allows a company to transfer its debt to a Texas entity, which subsequently files for bankruptcy, and its assets to non-debtor entities, protecting the assets and eliminating the debt. What can creditors do about it?

A number of lessons may be learned from representing clients in the bankruptcy filings in the retail and restaurant industries.

As COVID-19 continues to devastate the U.S. and local economies, the service industry in particular has experienced substantial declines in both business and profits. However, the new Subchapter V of Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code and the CARES Act have provided service industry debtors with new and potentially life-saving tools to solve their unique debt issues moving forward.

What is cryptocurrency? Bankruptcy practitioners and the courts better figure it out soon as the growth in popularity of cryptocurrencies continues to create new legal issues under the Bankruptcy Code.

After the Ninth Circuit in In re Taggart set a new and narrow precedent regarding exactly what a creditor must do in order to be subject to civil contempt sanctions for a violation of the discharge injunction, the ball is now with the U.S. Supreme Court to determine what influence that extraordinary opinion will have on other courts.

The Southern District of Texas’s recent popularity in commercial filings, stemming from a number of factors, makes it a new contender to be one of the busiest commercial bankruptcy districts in the country.