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How Businesses Use Corporate Debt Restructuring for Liquidity

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Debts can quickly cripple a business, and negotiating more favorable terms with creditors is usually the best way out. Businesses restructuring debt typically do so because they’re having trouble meeting obligations, and it goes both ways. Many businesses are both debtors and creditors. Indenture Agreement Violations.

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The Long Road Ahead? Puerto Rico Oversight Board Files Proposed Plan To Restructure The Commonwealth’s Debt And Other Claims

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The Plan, combined with the completed COFINA debt restructuring, reduces the maximum annual amount of government net-tax supported debt service from $4.2 The combined debt service of the Commonwealth and COFINA debt falls from $82 billion to $44 billion over a 30-year period. billion to $1.5

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JUST IN TIME: NEW BANKRUPTCY RELIEF FOR SMALL BUSINESSES – NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL

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The CARES Act special bankruptcy relief increased the debt limit under the Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019 (SBRA) from about $2.7 The increased debt limit, which became effective February 20, 2020, includes a one-year sunset. Owners now have a way to keep their equity ownership even over the objection of creditors.