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Post date: Tuesday, December 22, 2015

The Bankruptcy Litigation Committee had a tremendous 2015!  We strived to continue to provide our members with enlightening and useful substantive information, while also offering enjoyable and valuable social and networking opportunities.

Post date: Wednesday, October 07, 2015
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Dana Yankowitz Elliott

The collapse of a business is traumatic for any owner-operator. They worry about their employees, damage to their reputations, and may well face an uncertain financial future. If the business was operated as a corporation, the failure of the company may have a devastating impact on the owner-operator, but she will not likely be compelled to repay compensation she received as an officer of the company prior to the filing.

Post date: Thursday, August 27, 2015

Trump Entertainment Resorts Trump AC Casino Marks, LLC (the “licensee/debtor”) filed voluntary petitions for chapter 11 relief on Sept. 9, 2014. On Aug. 5, 2014, Trump Marks, LLC sought to terminate the royalty-free trademark license previously granted to the licensee/debtor.

Post date: Thursday, August 27, 2015
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Christopher G. Bradley

In today’s corporate bankruptcy world, a debtor’s most important and valuable assets often come in the form of intellectual property (IP). Understanding the effect of bankruptcy on IP licenses is crucial not only for debtors, but also for existing licensees and for potential purchasers of IP assets.

Post date: Thursday, August 27, 2015
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Beverly A. Berneman

This article addresses how the decision in In re Crumbs Bake Shop Inc.[1] continues the evolution of trademark licensing in bankruptcy and contributes to an understanding of the fate of Intellectual Property (IP) during a § 363 asset sale.

Post date: Thursday, August 27, 2015

Whether a contract is executory and therefore subject to assumption or rejection can have profound consequences on both the debtor and nondebtor parties to such contract. If both parties have material obligations to the other, then a contract is executory.

Post date: Monday, June 29, 2015
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James S. Green, Jr.

Today’s commercial bankruptcy environment favors the creation of special trusts to separate liquidating and litigation assets from operational assets in the hopes of maximizing distribution to creditors and permitting a reorganized debtor to emerge successfully from bankruptcy. The lengthy process of administering assets that have uncertain recoveries, or that may require significant time to handle, begs the use of a vehicle that can be separated from the

Post date: Wednesday, April 01, 2015

The dissolution of a law firm can be a financial catastrophe for its partners. In a typical law firm dissolution, the partners lose any bonuses, end-of-year draws, and thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars in capital. Adding insult to injury, if the firm’s creditors force it into bankruptcy, which often happens following law firm dissolutions, the partners can expect to be the targets of litigation.

Post date: Wednesday, April 01, 2015
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Jeffrey C. Toole

[1]Over the last 30 years, dozens of notable U.S. law firms have dissolved or gone bankrupt. Although many of those firms were relatively small, others were among our country’s largest and most venerated.[2]
A law firm’s demise is often years in the making. But once circumstances become dire, a law firm’s collapse can happen swiftly. Sensing the end, equity partners, contract partners and laterals may leave individually or in groups, taking the most profitable business with them and accelerating a teetering firm’s death spiral.

Post date: Wednesday, April 01, 2015

Individual debtors have the right to retain and use pre-petition property to reorganize under chapter 11 without first getting creditors’ consent or proposing to pay them off — at least according to the Bankruptcy Code.[1] 11 U.S.C. § 1129(b)(2)(B)(ii) expressly spares individual chapter 11 debtors from the absolute priority r

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Mr. John C. Cannizzaro
Co-Chair
Ice Miller LLP
Columbus, OH
(614) 462-2700

Ms. Isley Markman Gostin
Co-Chair
WilmerHale
Washington, DC
(202) 663-6551

Mr. Mark A. Platt
Communications Manager
Frost Brown Todd LLC
Dallas, TX
(214) 580-5852

Ms. Sara L. Abner, Esq.
Education Director
Frost Brown Todd LLC
Louisville, KY
(502) 779-8178

Mrs. Dana L. Robbins
Membership Relations Director
Burr & Forman LLP
Tampa, FL
(813) 367-5760

Mr. Jon Jay Lieberman
Special Projects Leader
Sottile & Barile LLC
Loveland, OH
(859) 912-1659

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