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Can A Secured Creditor Be Denied The Right To Credit Bid When The Creditor’S Collateral Is Sold Pursuant To A Chapter 11 Plan Of Reorganization?, Marshall E. Tracht
Can A Secured Creditor Be Denied The Right To Credit Bid When The Creditor’S Collateral Is Sold Pursuant To A Chapter 11 Plan Of Reorganization?, Marshall E. Tracht
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CASE AT A GLANCE
A bankruptcy plan can only be confirmed over the objection of a secured creditor if the plan is found to be “fair and equitable.” The fair and equitable standard requires, at a minimum, that (i) the creditor may retain its lien on its collateral; (ii) the collateral will be sold subject to the creditor’s right to credit bid its debt; or (iii) the creditor will receive the “indubitable equivalent” of its claim. The Supreme Court must decide whether a plan can provide for the sale of collateral without granting the creditor the right to credit bid …
Credit Risk Transfer Governance: The Good, The Bad, And The Savvy, Houman B. Shadab
Credit Risk Transfer Governance: The Good, The Bad, And The Savvy, Houman B. Shadab
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Goldman Sachs and American International Group on the eve of the 2008 financial crisis were bound together through a web of credit risk transfer (CRT) contracts in the form of credit default swaps (CDSs) and synthetic collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). Synthetic CDOs enabled certain hedge funds to profit from the ultimate bursting of the housing bubble due to the funds’ savvy in understanding CRT better than their counterparties. This Article constructs a novel theory of CRT that extends the insights of creditor governance theory to CRT transactions. By doing so, this Article establishes a framework for good CRT governance. CRT …