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Shocking Business Bankruptcy Law

Melissa B. Jacoby

The intersection of major crises and financial distress generates no shortage of stock stories. This Essay offers one more: how shocks can be used opportunistically in big Chapter 11 cases to unravel bankruptcy law, and to shift the system further away from the objective of responding to overindebte…

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Ice Cube Bonds: Allocating the Price of Process in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

Melissa B. Jacoby & Edward J. Janger

In Chrysler’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy, a finding that the debtor was losing $100 million per day justified the hurry-up sale of the company to Fiat. The assertion that a firm is a melting ice cube is frequently offered, soon after a bankruptcy filing, to justify a qui…