Levitin’s Business Bankruptcy: Financial Restructuring and Modern Commercial Markets, Third Edition is a comprehensive textbook on business reorganization law, covering modern financing structures, out-of-court restructuring and Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Business Bankruptcy: Financial Restructuring and Modern Commercial Markets provides students with a contemporary stand-alone business bankruptcy text. Designed to teach financial restructuring law in a realistic twenty-first century commercial context, the book uses problem sets to explore not only Chapter 7 and 11 bankruptcy, but also out-of-court restructuring, modern financial products and transactions, and advanced in-court restructuring topics.
New to the Third Edition:
- Coverage of Subchapter V small business reorganizations
- Expanded coverage of labor and pension issues
- Expanded coverage of sub rosa restructuring plans
- Expanded coverage of restructuring support agreements and rights offerings
- Revised coverage of fraudulent transfers
Professors and students will benefit from:
- Unique coverage of out-of-court restructuring providing students with realistic view of contemporary restructuring practice and shows what Chapter 11 adds to the financial restructuring toolkit.
- Detailed coverage of modern financial products and markets— derivatives, securitization, loan syndications, and claims trading—familiarizing students with the dynamics of the modern restructuring landscape.
- Comprehensive expository text clearly explains the operation of the Bankruptcy Code and the policy issues involved.
- In-depth case-studies contextualizing judicial decisions within larger strategic picture.
- Incorporation of actual deal documents, including a bond indenture, a loan syndication agreement, ISDA Master Agreement, and a restructuring support agreement.
- Modular design enabling optional coverage of advanced topics.