• In re: LTL Mgmt., LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-02-13
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Consumer Products
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Justice Ambro
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Melanie L. Cyganowski, Adam C. Silverstein (Otterbourg); Angelo J. Genova (Genova Burns); Jeffrey A. Lamken (MoloLamken); Jonathan S. Massey (Massey & Gail); David J. Molton, Michael S. Winograd (Brown Rudnick); Mathew I.W. Maker (Genova Burns); Sunni P. Beville, Shari I. Dwoskin, Jeffrey L. Jonas (Brown Rudnick); Donald W. Clarke (Wasserman, Jurista & Stolz); Daniel Stolz (Genova Burns LLC); Jennifer S. Feeney (Otterbourg); Leonard M. Parkins, Charles M. Rubio (Parkins & Rubio); Robter J. Stark (Brown Rudnick); Ellen Relkin (Weitz & Luxemberg); Deepak Gupta, Jonathan E. Taylor, Matthew W.H. Wessler (Gupta Wessler); Jerome Block, Amber Long, Moshe Maimon (Levy Konigsberg); John M. August (Saiber); Suzanne Ratcliffe, Clay Thompson (Maune Raichle Hartley French & Mudd); David A. Chandler (Karst & von Oiste); Jeffrey M. Dine, Karen B. Dine (Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones); Mathew Drecum, David c. Frederick, Ariela Migdal, Gregory G. Rapawy (Kellog Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick); Laura D. Jones, Peter J. Keane, Colin R. Robinson (Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones); Isaac M. Pachulski (Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones); Samuel M. Kidder, Nir Maoz, Robert J. Pfister, Michael L. Tuchin (Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern); Paul J. Winterhalter (Offit Kurman); Allen J. Underwood, II (Lite, DePalma, Greenberg & Afanador); Mark Tsuker (Cole Schotz); Felice C. Yudkin (Cole Schotz); Arthur J. Abramowitz, Alan I. Moldoff, Ross J. Switkes (Sherman, Silverstein, Kohl, Rose & Podolsky); Kevin W. Barrett, Maigreade B. Burrus (Bailey & Glasser); Thomas B. Bennett, Brian A. Glasser (Bailey & Glasser); Michael Klein, Evan M. Lazerowitz, Lauren A. Reichartdt, Erica J. Richards, Cullen D. Speckhart (Cooley); James C. Lanik, Jennifer B. Lyday, Thomas W. Waldrep (Waldrep, Wall, Babcock & Bailey); Kevin L. Sink (Waldrep, Wall, Babcock & Bailey)
    for defendant: Brad J. Axelrod (Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom); Caitlin K. Cahow, Brad B. Erens (Jones Day); Paul R. DeFillipo (Wollmuth Maher & Deutsch); Kristen R. Fournier (King and Spalding); Kathleen A. Frazier (Shook Hardy & Bacon); Gregory M. Gordon, Daniel B. Prieto, Mark W. Rasmussen, Amanda Rush (Jones Day); Robert W. Hamilton (Jones Day); James M. Jones (Jones Day); Neal K. Katyal, Sean M. Marotta (Hogan Lovells US); Glen M. Kurtz, Jessica C. Lauria (White & Case); James N. Lawler, Joseph F. Pacelli (Wollmuth Maher & Deutsch); C. Kevin Marshall (Jones Day); John R. Miller, Jr. (Miller, Kistler, Campbell, Miller, Williams & Benson); Matthew L. Tomsic (Rayburn, Cooper, Durham); Lyndon M. Treeter (Wollmuth Maher & Deutsch)

    Case Number: 22-2003, 22-2004, 22-2005, 22-2006, 22-2007, 22-2008, 22-2009, 22-2010, 20-2011

    Subsidiary Spun Off to Assume Litigation Liability Had Bankruptcy Dismissed Since Right to Reimbursement of Liability Costs Weighed Against Finding Financial Distress

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