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The Bankruptcy Strategist

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Beyond Bordeaux’s Bankruptcy: A Lesson In Adapting to the Evolving Sports Media Landscape Image

Beyond Bordeaux’s Bankruptcy: A Lesson In Adapting to the Evolving Sports Media Landscape

Jeffrey Schlerf

Word that the historic French franchise Girondins de Bordeaux filed for bankruptcy recently rocked European football. But one force in particular poses an even broader threat to the sustainability of the elite level of French soccer than relegation: media rights.

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Inconvenient Bankruptcy Appeals

Michael L. Cook

Bankruptcy courts are not infallible, and their rulings should be reviewable. But too many district courts and bankruptcy appellate panels (BAPs) regularly refuse to review nonfinal bankruptcy court orders for questionable reasons.

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Subchapter V Could Be Ideal Choice for Franchisees Image

Subchapter V Could Be Ideal Choice for Franchisees

Craig R. Tractenberg

When franchisees choose to financially reorganize under the Bankruptcy Code, they may be the right size to choose to reorganize under Subchapter V of Chapter 11. Where the franchisor and the franchisee cannot reconcile, Subchapter V may provide the franchisee with breathing room and leverage to be revitalized.

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Mortgage Can Be Modified By Ch. 11 Plan, Even If Debtor Is Not Indebted, But Cram-Down Limited Image

Mortgage Can Be Modified By Ch. 11 Plan, Even If Debtor Is Not Indebted, But Cram-Down Limited

Andrew C. Kassner & Joseph N. Argentina Jr.

Today we review a situation where a 50% interest in mortgaged commercial real estate was transferred without the consent of the lender, and the new tenant-in-common owner subsequently filed a Chapter 11 case and attempted to modify the payment terms of the mortgage loan to which he is not a party.

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Can A LLC President File for Bankruptcy Over Objections of Debtor’s Other Members? Image

Can A LLC President File for Bankruptcy Over Objections of Debtor’s Other Members?

Lawrence J. Kotler & Drew S. McGehrin

Through a unilateral bankruptcy filing, a president and manager of a limited liability company sought to utilize the Chapter 11 process and sell a debtor’s business as a going concern over the objection of the debtor’s other members. In this case, the issue was whether the president was authorized to do so.

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