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Business Bankruptcy: Financial Restructuring and Modern Commercial Markets, Third Edition

Authors
  • Adam J. Levitin
Series / Aspen Casebook Series
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Table of contents
Preface

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Levitin’s Business Bankruptcy: Financial Restructuring and Modern Commercial Markets, Third Edition is a comprehensive textbook on business reorganization law, covering modern financing structures, out-of-court restructuring and Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Business Bankruptcy: Financial Restructuring and Modern Commercial Markets provides students with a contemporary stand-alone business bankruptcy text. Designed to teach financial restructuring law in a realistic twenty-first century commercial context, the book uses problem sets to explore not only Chapter 7 and 11 bankruptcy, but also out-of-court restructuring, modern financial products and transactions, and advanced in-court restructuring topics.

New to the Third Edition:

  • Coverage of Subchapter V small business reorganizations
  • Expanded coverage of labor and pension issues
  • Expanded coverage of sub rosa restructuring plans
  • Expanded coverage of restructuring support agreements and rights offerings
  • Revised coverage of fraudulent transfers

Professors and students will benefit from:

  • Unique coverage of out-of-court restructuring providing students with realistic view of contemporary restructuring practice and shows what Chapter 11 adds to the financial restructuring toolkit.
  • Detailed coverage of modern financial products and markets— derivatives, securitization, loan syndications, and claims trading—familiarizing students with the dynamics of the modern restructuring landscape.
  • Comprehensive expository text clearly explains the operation of the Bankruptcy Code and the policy issues involved.
  • In-depth case-studies contextualizing judicial decisions within larger strategic picture.
  • Incorporation of actual deal documents, including a bond indenture, a loan syndication agreement, ISDA Master Agreement, and a restructuring support agreement.
  • Modular design enabling optional coverage of advanced topics.
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About the authors
Adam J. Levitin

Adam Levitin is Agnes N. Williams Research Professor and Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law. Professor Levitin specializes in bankruptcy, commercial law, and financial regulation. His research focuses on consumer and housing finance, payments, and debt restructuring. Professor Levitin currently serves on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Consumer Advisory Board, and he has previously served as the Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, as the Robert Zinman Scholar in Residence at the American Bankruptcy Institute, and as Special Counsel to the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Before joining the Georgetown faculty, Professor Levitin practiced in the Business Finance & Restructuring Department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP and served as law clerk to the Honorable Jane R. Roth on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Professor Levitin holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, an M.Phil and an A.M. from Columbia University, and an A.B. from Harvard College. His scholarship has won several awards, including the American Law Institute’s Young Scholar’s Medal.

Product Information
Edition
Third Edition
Publication date
2022-09-22
Copyright Year
2023
Pages
1008
Connected eBook + Hardcover
9781543847710
Connected eBook (Digital Only)
9798886141696
Subject
Bankruptcy and Debtor/Creditor Law
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