Welcome to Sidley’s The Restructuring Room podcast. Join us as we discuss with prominent industry figures and practitioners the trending bankruptcy, restructuring, and insolvency topics in today’s global business news, as well as those cases that have shaped bankruptcy law and practice. The Restructuring Room is hosted by partners Tom Califano and Genevieve Weiner, and managing associate Juliana Hoffman, Restructuring lawyers from the international law firm Sidley Austin LLP.
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On 20 May 2020, the UK Government published its much anticipated draft legislation (the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill) which aims to provide greater opportunities for company survival and better returns for creditors during and after the COVID-19 emergency. The Government intends to ask Parliament to expedite progress of the Bill. This short podcast mini-series contains five episodes, with each focusing on one of the key reforms proposed.
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“The Weinstein Company Bankruptcy: Part 2 – Under New Management”
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In the final part of this special edition of Sidley’s Restructuring Room, we continue our look back at the 2018 bankruptcy of The Weinstein Company with Andy Mitchell, CEO and Managing Partner of Lantern Capital Partners. Hosted by Partner Tom Califano and managing associate Juliana Hoffman of Sidley’s Restructuring group. * Sidley was very active …
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The Weinstein Company Bankruptcy: Part 1 – Insights from the Inside
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In March of 2018, amid numerous allegations of misconduct against its recently dismissed co-founder and chief executive, Harvey Weinstein, The Weinstein Company (TWC) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.* In May of that year, the bankruptcy auction process began, and by July, TWC's assets were sold to the Dallas-based private equity firm Lantern Capita…
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A Conversation With Hon. Harlin D. Hale (Ret.) and Tom Califano
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Join us as for a conversation with our special guest The Honorable Harlin D. Hale (Ret.) and Thomas R. Califano, a partner on Sidley’s Restructuring team in New York. Judge Hale served on the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas for almost 20 years, including a two-year term as chief judge. He presided over thousands of cases an…
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The Exercise of Contractual Termination Provisions
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Amy Halsall discusses the proposed changes to restrict a supplier’s ability to exercise contractual termination rights on insolvency, introduced by the Bill.Av Mayer Brown
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Sheena Frazer discusses the new Standalone Moratorium introduced by the Bill.Av Mayer Brown
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Restructuring Plan for Companies in Financial Difficulty
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Devi Shah discusses the new Restructuring Plan introduced by the Bill, including some of its interesting features which distinguish it from the existing regime relating to schemes of arrangement.Av Mayer Brown
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Amy Jacks discusses the temporary restrictions to winding-up petitions introduced in the Bill.Av Mayer Brown
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Nicola Collins discusses the temporary changes to liability for wrongful trading, included in the Bill.Av Mayer Brown
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