PBWT

AUGUST 24, 2020

I don’t know if Congress foresaw, when it enacted new Subchapter V of Chapter 11 of the Code [1] in the Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019 (“SBRA”), that debtors in pending cases would seek to convert or redesignate their cases as Subchapter V cases when SBRA became effective on February 19, 2020, but it was foreseeable.

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PBWT

JULY 23, 2020

Our February 26 post [1] reported on the first case dealing with the question whether a debtor in a pending Chapter 11 case may redesignate it as a case under Subchapter V, [2] the new subchapter of Chapter 11 adopted by the Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019 (“SBRA”), which became effective on February 19. [3] 894 (Bankr.

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Burr Forman

AUGUST 20, 2020

The Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019 (the “SBRA”) was enacted on August 23, 2019, with an effective date of February 19, 2020. [4] 4] The SBRA created a new Subchapter V of the Bankruptcy Code to “streamline the bankruptcy process by which small business debtors reorganize and rehabilitate their financial affairs.” [5]

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Fraser

JULY 21, 2020

The “Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019” (SBRA), which went into effect in February, 2020, contains amendments to Chapter 11 bankruptcy preference law that are not limited to small business reorganizations. The SBRA places an additional hurdle in front of debtors. The SBRA raises this threshold amount to $25,000.

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Burr Forman

DECEMBER 18, 2020

As these restaurants seek remedies to get their businesses on the right track, Graham Stieglitz authored a December 2020 article for Full-Service Restaurant Magazine (FSR) discussing efficient restructuring processes available to qualifying businesses under the Small Business Reorganization Act (SBRA).

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PBWT

MAY 14, 2020

In In re Double H Transportation LLC , [4] Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Mott held that such an amendment was not permitted by SBRA. “Nothing in the SBRA enabling statute indicates that the SBRA was intended to have retroactive effect–i.e., that the SBRA should apply to pending bankruptcy cases.”

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ABI

JANUARY 13, 2021

Congress passed the Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019 (“SBRA”) to give small businesses a better chance to successfully reorganize under Chapter 11 of title 11 of the United States Code (the “Bankruptcy Code”). [1] 11] However, the SBRA went into effect before the confirmation hearing. [12] By: Eric Silverstein. 14] The U.S.

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