Business & Commercial Bankruptcy

This blog has frequently considered the power given to companies who have filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition to revoke real estate leases that still have many months left on the original term. Now a New York City landlord is attempting to reverse the process by...

When a business files a petition in bankruptcy, it may have a number of employees who are owed payment for work performed prior to the filing of the petition. One of the most pressing questions for Rockland County individuals who work for firms entering into...

Many factors can force a business into bankruptcy. The most common reasons for a business to seek bankruptcy protection is too many debts and insufficient revenue. Shoddy business practices can also be an underlying cause. A popular restaurant on the Hudson River, La...

The Time Hotel opened in Nyack in May 2016. The owners saw the property as a boutique hotel that would attract urban tourists and business travelers, but the plan has not succeeded. Several of the Hotel's investors filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition against the...

The coffee shop chain Fika opened in New York City in 2006. The company was known for its sleek modern ambience, and its shops became very popular. 10 years after it opened, Fika had 17 locations in the city, and its owner was telling people that the company intended...

In a recent post about the status of the Sears bankruptcy, the efforts by the company's CEO Eddie Lampert to secure financing for a purchase of the company's assets received significant attention. The other shoe has apparently fallen, because recent reports from the...

Sears has several stores in Rockland County and elsewhere in downstate New York. The court handling the closely-watched business bankruptcy set a recent deadline for the submission of bids to buy the company. If no qualifying bids were submitted, the court stated that...

A previous post here discussed how sexual abuse lawsuits are forcing companies to seek protection under either Chapter 7 or Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. But, there is another issue that may cause companies to seek bankruptcy protection: embezzlement by a trusted...

Many factors can force a business to consider bankruptcy, ranging from management errors to unexpected loss of customers to natural disasters. Another kind of threat to an organization's financial well-being has forced several organizations to consider file a Chapter...

One of the principal concerns of dealing with a person or corporation that is in financial difficulty is the possible mismanagement of the debtor business. Assets may be sold for less than fair market value or simply hidden from creditors. The debtor may decide to pay...