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04 Jan 2018

The Secret Life of Priority

Jonathan Lipson

For forty years, the central goal of corporate reorganization under chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code has been to produce a “plan of reorganization” for the distressed corporate debtor...

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22 Dec 2017

Practice Makes Perfect: Judge Experience and Bankruptcy Outcomes

Benjamin Iverson | Joshua Madsen | Qiping Xu | Wei Wang

In spite of the important role that judges play in the bankruptcy reorganisation process, little is known about the effects of their experience and personal attributes on case outcomes. Our recent...
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01 Aug 2017

The New Bond Workouts

William W. Bratton | Adam J. Levitin

In the United States, bond workouts are a famously dysfunctional method of debt restructuring, ridden with opportunistic and coercive behavior by bondholders and bond issuers. Historically, they also...

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