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Confusion About Section 365(b)(2)(D)

It is generally understood that bankruptcy law requires debtors to cure all contractual defaults before assuming any executory contract because debtors would receive a windfall without such requirement: They could assume (and compel performance on) contracts that they had breached without paying any resulting damages claim. If such a result were permitted under the Code, failing companies would have even less incentive to continue performing on contracts pre-petition because they could presumably seek to assume those contracts in bankruptcy without penalty.

10 minute read December 01, 2003 at 01:14 PM
By
Amy L. Boyd And Mark Shinderman
Confusion About Section 365(b)(2)(D)

It is generally understood that bankruptcy law requires debtors to cure all contractual defaults before assuming any executory contract because debtors would receive a windfall without such requirement: They could assume (and compel performance on) contracts that they had breached without paying any resulting damages claim.

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