Bankruptcy Demographics Report is the second year of research to capture information on American debtors filing bankruptcy during … demographics of debtors that may be attributable to the recession. These two years show 24 months of Americans filing bankruptcy … bankruptcy process.As in years past, the average American in financial distress and seeking credit counseling and financial …

The paper integrates the problem of designing corporate bankruptcy rules into a theory of optimal debt structure. We … that are jointly inconsistent in case of default. Bankruptcy rules are therefore a necessary part of the overall financing …, with predictions about the allocation of security rights, the right to trigger bankruptcy and the symmetry of treatment of …

the sale that the Supreme Court had allowed to go forward - and which both the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District … upholding the bankruptcy court's approval of the sale and ordering the Court of Appeals to dismiss the dissenting secured … its disagreement with the Second Circuit's interpretation of the requirements of §363(b), the section of the Bankruptcy …

Bankruptcy law establishes proceedings designed to rehabilitate debtors while protecting creditors, but a series of … safe harbors effectively exempts from bankruptcy proceedings certain financial contracts known as derivatives. Accordingly … unnecessary costs arising from bankruptcy and thereby better reduce systemic risk …

issues involved in this matter and undertakes a comparative analysis of third party releases in corporate bankruptcy …