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Del Monte Foods: From LME to Section 363

Feb 20, 2026

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45 min read

Del Monte Foods: From LME to Section 363

The Amazing Story of Del Monte’s Failed LME and Chapter 11

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Magenta Buyer: The Blocking Position Playbook

Feb 13, 2026

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38 min read

Magenta Buyer: The Blocking Position Playbook

How Elliott Management converted documentary control into coercive economics in a high-participation LME

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Franchise Group: The Roll-Up That Collapsed in Bankruptcy and Reemerged as Fusion

Feb 10, 2026

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42 min read

Franchise Group: The Roll-Up That Collapsed in Bankruptcy and Reemerged as Fusion

How an aggressive group of structurally subordinated lenders turned a simple Chapter 11 into one of the messiest and most litigious bankruptcies of 2025

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From Shield to Sword: How Cooperation Agreements Became the Weapon They Were Designed to Prevent

Feb 6, 2026

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41 min read

From Shield to Sword: How Cooperation Agreements Became the Weapon They Were Designed to Prevent

What began as a defensive hedge against creditor-on-creditor violence has ignited a legal war that could fundamentally redefine how creditors coordinate

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Jan 30, 2026

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26 min read

MRP Solutions: Molded by Distress

How the Clearlake-Backed Plastic Closures Manufacturer Became a Template for LME 3.0

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Jan 27, 2026

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35 min read

Wellpath’s Chapter 11 Deep Dive

How inadequate care services and mass tort claims drove Wellpath to restructure under a Prepack Chapter 11 and Section 363 asset sale

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Breaking the Pro-Rata Paradigm in Europe: Deconstructing Selecta’s Creditor-Led Restructuring

Jan 23, 2026

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42 min read

Breaking the Pro-Rata Paradigm in Europe: Deconstructing Selecta’s Creditor-Led Restructuring

Inside the “Distressed Disposal” Trap: How the AHG Weaponized European Documentation Holes to Engineer a Coercive Squeeze

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McDermott, A Cross-Border Double Restructuring

Jan 16, 2026

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39 min read

McDermott, A Cross-Border Double Restructuring

A classic case of leverage outpacing growth

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Mitel Networks Deep Dive and Uptier Analysis

Jan 9, 2026

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39 min read

Mitel Networks Deep Dive and Uptier Analysis

A delayed pivot to the cloud and descent from a legally robust uptier into Chapter 11

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The 2025 Distressed Investing Conference

Jan 2, 2026

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63 min read

The 2025 Distressed Investing Conference

LPs increasingly see out-of-court transactions as fiduciary responses rather than evasive maneuvers

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Dec 26, 2025

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19 min read

2025 Pari Passu Year-End Letter #3

Behind the Scenes of your Favorite Newsletter, Key Stats, Best Posts of 2025, and Fun Facts

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City Brewing: A Hard Seltzer LME Hangover

Dec 19, 2025

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31 min read

City Brewing: A Hard Seltzer LME Hangover

How White Claw’s co-manufacturer was forced into back-to-back LMEs

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YesCare (Corizon Health): Texas Two-Step Case Study

Dec 12, 2025

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24 min read

YesCare (Corizon Health): Texas Two-Step Case Study

Substandard medical care, mass tort claims, and a Texas Two-Step case study.

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Rough Justice Resolution: Weight Watchers Prepackaged Chapter 11

Dec 5, 2025

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38 min read

Rough Justice Resolution: Weight Watchers Prepackaged Chapter 11

How impaired creditors may have marked a pragmatic alternative in bankruptcy

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Nov 28, 2025

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39 min read

Intrum, a Transatlantic Turnaround

How a European Debt Collector Executed a Texas Prepack

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Del Monte Foods: From LME to Section 363

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From Shield to Sword: How Cooperation Agreements Became the Weapon They Were Designed to Prevent

MRP Solutions: Molded by Distress

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Breaking the Pro-Rata Paradigm in Europe: Deconstructing Selecta’s Creditor-Led Restructuring

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The 2025 Distressed Investing Conference

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City Brewing: A Hard Seltzer LME Hangover

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