Brazilian-Mexican petrochemical company Braskem Idesa SAPI has tapped a team of attorneys from Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP to guide its pre-negotiated Chapter 11 plan to trade debt for equity.
Rapper Jay-Z has won a bid to preserve a nearly $136,000 claim filed in the bankruptcy of a woman whom he alleges has harassed him for more than a decade, with a New Jersey bankruptcy judge rejecting the woman's motion to quash the claim and tossing her adversary proceeding against him.
A winery in California's Napa Valley struggling to recover from wildfires hit Chapter 11. A vertical farming startup whose products were distributed by a dozen supermarket chains was forced to liquidate. And a military contractor foundered after losing a crucial government agency as a client.