I have recently come to the conclusion that serious thought needs to be given to amending the United States Bankruptcy Code so that “Single Asset Real Estate” entities are not eligible to file for bankruptcy under Bankruptcy...

STATE BAR SPONSORED MCLE "Mortgage Securitization in Litigation & Bankruptcy Practice"   March 31, 2012 | Las Vegas, NV   MCLE 6 hrs Nevada, California* Course No. 5734A1-VR1   Presenter: Charles W. Christmas, Jr., Esq. Las...

What Major Corporations Might be Staring at Bankruptcy? This months MELTDOWN, from Pmf Legal, speculates on some of the next major failures – or at least corporations ending up as shadows of their former selves. Its not so much ‘here today, gone...

Johnathan C. Bolton joins Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel’s Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights practice group in Honolulu, Hawaii. Bolton formerly was a senior associate of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. in Houston, Texas. Bolton concentrates his practice in the areas of U.S. and international bankruptcy, insolvency and collections law. He is board certified in Business Bankruptcy Law by the Americ

Business valuation of a young company is very hard to calculate for different reasons. Some of these businesses just have ideas and are start-ups.

However, the business valuation methods that factor in the impact of distress do not do so completely.

Recently, a bank challenged the right of a spouse to take title to property held by her and her husband as joint tenants where the estate of the husband was later declared bankrupt.  Of course, as...

The most extreme personal remedy that a civil court can grant is the contempt order. It is difficult to obtain and certainly treated as a remedy of last resort.  So imagine what one principal of a...

The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret. Now, the rest of the world can see what it was missing.

Major stories on insolvency, bankruptcy, turnaround and restructuring.

Amazon.com: The Art of Distressed M&A: Buying, Selling, and Financing Troubled and Insolvent Companies (9780071750196): H. Peter Nesvold, Jeffrey Anapolsky, Alexandra Reed Lajoux:...

BAC just rearranging deck chairs on Titanic.