Bankruptcy Law News and Insights

The finality of sales of assets in bankruptcy is an indispensable feature of U.S. bankruptcy law, designed to maximize the value of a bankruptcy estate as expeditiously as possible for the benefit of all stakeholders. Promoting the finality of bankruptcy asset sales is the Bankruptcy Code's prohibition of reversal or...

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Nearly eight percent of the $41 billion in outstanding senior living bonds were in default as of December 2021, with the sector accounting for almost one-quarter of defaulted debt in the muni market, not including bonds caught up in Puerto Rico's bankruptcy.1 As challenges to the senior housing sector persist, including...

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On October 20, 2021, Democratic senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon), and Independent senator Bernard Sanders (I-Vermont), introduced to the United States Senate proposed legislation S. 3022, the Stop Wall Street Looting Act of 2021 (the "SWSLA"),1 as a reworked version of legislation previously proposed...

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