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How Higher Rates Will Influence the Next Restructuring Cycle
Monetary policy famously works with long and variable lags and restructuring investment bankers are finding this out the hard way. Even though the ...
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Cramdown in Chapter 11: Balancing Equity and Efficiency in Bankruptcy
The aim of every chapter 11 case is to balance providing equitable treatment to pre-existing creditors with the need to try to create the most effi...
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Upstream and Downstream Guarantees: Definitions and Examples
Something I’ve written about many times is that when it comes to restructuring, things mean what they’re defined to mean -- not what you think they...
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Death Trap Provisions in Chapter 11 Cases: Coercion by Another Name
If you were asked to quickly define what the chapter 11 process involves – in no more than a sentence – a reasonable answer would be that it involv...
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The Texas Two-Step Restructuring Strategy: Handling Mass Tort Claims
If we take a step back and ask ourselves what restructuring really is – at its most fundamental level, devoid of any verbiage – a reasonable answer...
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The Connection Between Inflation and Restructuring
As inflation accelerates at a pace not seen in the past forty years and equity markets continue to whipsaw, it’s worth thinking about what the rami...
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Restructuring Superday Tips and Tricks
Over the past month I've been absurdly busy. As it turns out, all it took to dislodge credit markets from their eighteen month stimulus-induced com...
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What is a Rights Offering? How Rights Offerings are Used in Chapter 11
Let’s imagine that you’re working at a distressed debt hedge fund. You’ve been following a company that’s been in distress for a while and it has a...
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Notable Restructuring Deals in 2021
As you can imagine, restructuring deal flow was quite subdued in 2021 relative to 2020. However, that doesn't mean that restructuring bankers have ...
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China Offshore Bonds: Restructuring and Defaults
While 2021 has been an incredibly quiet year in the world of restructuring - as was to largely be expected given how much deal activity was pulled ...
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Restructuring Support Agreements: What You Need to Know
Throughout the early 2000s, it was increasingly recognized that the Chapter 11 process was not operating as it was intended to. Instead of the proc...
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Top 5 Guggenheim Interview Questions
Investment banking is a game of musical chairs. Routinely top bankers are poached by competitors - often those a few notches down the league table ...
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