confirmation plan

In a recent an opinion, the Delaware Bankruptcy Court enforced the broad release language in a confirmation plan to release certain entities that were never intended to be released.

The debtors and the creditors’ committee engaged in hard-fought negotiations, and the committee supported confirmation of the plan in large part because the settlement trust, to…

In ruling a motion to dismiss, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals considered whether the purchaser of the Debtors’ shares post-confirmation was bound by releases contained in the plan of reorganization (the “Plan”).  A copy of the opinion is available here.

The Plan included “broad releases of liability,” that protected the Debtor and its…