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Standing on the Edge

The fact pattern is all too common: A company with an extremely over-leveraged balance sheet is hemorrhaging cash and may already be in disrepute with its trade creditors (of whom there may be thousands). The business is beyond repair. A bank group that has liens on nearly all of the company's assets wants to use Chapter 11 to liquidate those assets to recover as much as it can. The liquidation may be piecemeal (as is common with failed retailers) or it may be as a going concern (as is more common in the industrial sector), but either way the debtors are heading toward a Chapter 11 liquidation.

27 minute readAugust 15, 2003 at 12:11 PM
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Jonathan P. Friedland
Evan R. Gartenlaub
Standing on the Edge

The fact pattern is all too common: A company with an extremely over-leveraged balance sheet is hemorrhaging cash and may already be in disrepute with its trade creditors (of whom there may be thousands).

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