August 24, 2016

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Law:

Addleshaws-Hunton merger talks stall amid UK and US political uncertainty
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4th Circuit revives lawyer’s ‘glass ceiling’ suit against Booz Allen
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In-House Salaries Are Up. But Many Say They're Underpaid.
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Recruiter Sues Holland & Knight Lawyer For Using Competitor
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Headhunter Scorned: Inside a Failed Law Firm Placement
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The Most Important Law School You've Probably Never Heard Of
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Clients prefer attorneys with active social media presence, survey finds
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The Struggle: Two Suicides In Two Months At The Same Law School
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When The Organized Crime Bureau Gets Involved With Stolen Exams, You Know It’s Bad
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How Law Professors Handle Law Student Freakouts During Final Exam Reviews
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America’s ‘First Law School’
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Law Firms Not Betting on Obama’s TPP Push
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Bad Boies, Bad Boies: Boies/Schiller Film Group to Fund ‘COPS’ Movie Boies/Schiller Film Group finances movie based on ‘Cops’ TV show
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The Pink Ghetto: If You Look ‘More Like A D-------- Than A Wannabe Lawyer,’ You’ll Get More Callback Interviews
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7 tricks for getting people to do what you want
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6 burning questions for 'Making a Murderer' season 2
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There's a problem with the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus that makes it unusable
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The Education of Ryan Lochte
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Another Lawsuit Against Fox News With Shocking Allegations
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The Documentary Model for Trial Budgets
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Arkansas City Sued Over Hot Check Court Fines, Arrests
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Lawyer denounces restaurant patrons for message they left his granddaughter
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Court Sentences Man For Sorcery
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Rabbis Declare That Women Must Not Be Educated At Universities
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Beyond Biglaw: Lessons From ‘The Night Of’ (Part 1)
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Judges:

Will Ginsburg retire if Clinton wins? She would have powerful position on liberal court
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Federal Jurist Punches Up Opinions With Pop Culture References
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Judge Frank Easterbrook Has Had It With These Damn Rats
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Wall Street:

U.S. stock futures search for direction, marooned in wait for Yellen
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S&P 500, Nasdaq close near records as housing data boosts stocks
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Fed turns up the volume, but the market’s tuning out the message
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Layoffs:

SolarCity to lay off 108 workers
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National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Fraud:

What it's like to have your world turned upside down by an insider trading conviction
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Panama Papers Prompt Race for Tax Haven Dollars Before Crackdown
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Ethanol:

Successful bidders named in sale of 5 Abengoa ethanol plants
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Religion:

Archdiocese creditors seek higher payout in bankruptcy plan Victims fault settlement plan in Twin Cities archdiocese case Abuse victims say St. Paul Archdiocese can afford $80M in compensation Clergy Abuse Survivors, Attorneys to Lay Out Bankruptcy Plan for Archdiocese
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Archdiocese seeks 'fair and just' resolution to bankruptcy proceedings
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Retailing:

Aéropostale Duels With Sycamore Over Bankruptcy
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US Trustee Rips Sports Authority's Revived Exec Bonus Bid
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4 Tips for Retailers Shutting Down Stores
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If Back-To-School Sales Fizzle, Retailer Bankruptcy May Not Be Far Behind
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There's an $80 billion 'elephant in the room' that could be worse than a recession for Walmart, Home Depot, and Costco
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Sears Holdings Corp Is Hanging By a Thread
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Weather:

Krugman: The Water Next Time
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Louisiana Flood Relief Will Cost $30 Million, Red Cross Says Obama Promises Louisiana Flood Victims National Support During Visit Obama: Federal aid in Louisiana has reached $127 million
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Shipping:

Primorsk to Reveal Details of Liquidation Plan
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Student Debt:

Business owners: Study up or pay price for student loan crisis
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Television:

'Idol' Producer Gets Nod To End Deals With Show Creator 'American Idol' Owner Core Media Allowed to Terminate Deal
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Healthcare:

McKesson threatens to pull technology from bankrupt hospital
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Bankruptcy Court hearing on Colusa hospital on sale delayed until Sept. 27 Supervisors recommend sale of hospital to Specialty
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EpiPen’s 400 percent price hike tells us a lot about what’s wrong with American health care
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The Real Reason Drugs Cost Too Much
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Credit Reporting:

No Sanctions For Atty's 'Fanciful, Farfetched' FCRA Claims
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Economy:

Fed’s Regional Bank Boards Increase Pressure for Rate Hike
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Business Borrowing For Equipment Falls 17%
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Modest but steady gains for US indexes; homebuilders soar
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Adults in their late 20s, early 30s have it worse than the previous generation: study
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Wall Street just found another recession signal These charts are flashing recession signals
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Chemical Activity Barometer "Suggests Accelerated Business Activity"
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What's on workers' retirement bucket list? Work
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Companies keep using this trick to make their earnings look better
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All of the US economy's problems come back to one thing
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American manufacturing grew in August, but flashed a 'warning light'
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The Illusion of Lagging Productivity
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Could Reviving a Defunct Banking Rule Prevent a Future Crisis?
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Will Janet Yellen’s ‘Monetary Policy Frameworks for the Future’ Include A Senate Seat For Janet Yellen?
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Companies Rethink Annual Pay Raises for All Employees
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Across the U.S., Workers at the Bottom of the Ladder Get Pay Raises
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This is a man’s world: Wage gap for mothers can reach 33%, study finds Better-educated women pay a steeper price for motherhood
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2016 Federal Deficit to Rise to $590 Billion
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Stiglitz: TPP Trade Pact is Wrong
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US Debt Clock
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World Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

New home sales surge to the best level since 2007 New Home Sales increased to 654,000 Annual Rate in July, Highest since October 2007
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In A Blow to Fannie and Freddie Shareholders, Court Tosses Out Another Lawsuit
(DBN)

Fine-Print Fortune: Two Ex-Goldman Traders Look for Bonanza in Mortgage Bonds
(DBN)

Why houses in America are getting smaller
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U.S. Foreclosure Starts Since April 2005
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Billion-dollar settlement for Countrywide home loans denied
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Millennials are tapping home equity for vacations and emergency cash
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Municipalities:

How Antonio Weiss Brokered The Only Major Economic Policy To Pass Congress This Year
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Puerto Rico's Debt Dilemma and Pathways towards Sovereign Solvency
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Unpaid Bills in Illinois
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Police Misconduct in Bankrupt Cities
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Oil/Gas:

Crude oil spikes on fresh reports that Iran wants to play nice with OPEC Oil Prices Flip to Gains on Iran Reports Oil falls as sources say API data show surge in U.S. crude stockpiles Oil Drops as Industry Data Signal U.S. Crude Stockpiles Rising
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Not even OPEC can save the struggling oil market now, Goldman Sachs warns
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Restructuring Brightens the Horizon for Energy Companies
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Pacific Exploration & Production one step closer to emerging from creditor protection
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Is Exxon Worth a Fraction of What It Claims?
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Stone Energy in talks to sell Appalachian assets to cut debt, bankruptcy possible
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Oil at $50 Tests Shale-Band Theory
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Norway Oil Companies Cut Investment Plans Further Amid Slump
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$110b of debt from global oil companies to be due in 5 years Moody's warns oil firms' debt loads are still a worry
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Distressed Investors Dive Back Into Oil & Gas Deals Wall Street's smart money is making big bets on a beaten-down industry
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Politics:

'I have to answer questions about whether I'm alive' Judge orders State Department to review 14,900 Clinton emails Hillary Clinton’s missteps keep Donald Trump in the race More than half the non-government people Clinton met with at the State Department were Clinton Foundation donors Hillary blasts for-profit colleges, but Bill earned millions working for one
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5 Things You Need to Know About Donald Trump’s Debt Republicans are still waiting on the campaign funds Trump promised he'd raise for the party Hedge Funders Backing Trump Are Hedging On Giving Him Actual Money The Philippines Shows Us What We ‘Have To Lose’ By Electing Trump Donald Trump Cues Up Another Conspiracy Trump Floats Obama-Like Deportation Plan, and Fans Don’t Mind Republican Candidates Calculate Whether to Cut Ties With Donald Trump Former Miss Universe Becomes Citizen In Order to Vote Against Trump Donald Trump Courts Black Vote While Avoiding African-American Communities Why Black Voters Are Rejecting Trump Trump's not showing up for less than $1 million Trump says he’ll make inner cities safer for minorities by putting “tougher” cops in charge Reliably Republican Texas Shows Signs of Cracking Under Trump Trump Tower rent raised for campaign after donors footed bill Trump Campaign Chair Slams Paul Ryan Trump's Great White Hope is Fading Fast
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Are Trump and Clinton Healthy?
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The Slow Fade of the Angry White Male
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Agriculture:

Kernels of Hope
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Coal:

Coal ’s Nightmare
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Maybe the Coal Market Isn't Dead After All
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Lehman:

The Fed and Lehman Brothers: A new narrative
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(3 new opinions today - DBN)

Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory

Chapter 7, 12 & 13 Private Trustee Locator
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Recent Ch. 11 Filings (20 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (7 new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Code (html) - Bankruptcy Code (pdf) Prior BK Codes (pick year from list) - Bankruptcy Rules
(large downloads)

UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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Bankruptcy Jobs:

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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)

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Bankruptcy Statistics:

Over the last 12 months, at least 11 recycling companies have filed for chapter 11 protection
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Discharge:

Orange County chases mom into bankruptcy and beyond to pay for son’s juvenile detention
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Mediation:

Mandatory Mediation: A Remedy for Non-Cooperative Behavior?
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Appeals:

The 7th Circuit's view on finality and appealability in bankruptcy
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Avoidance Actions:

Timing is Everything: The Seventh Circuit Clarifies the Ordinary Course of Business Preference Defense
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Trying to Turn Back the Clock on Deals Gone Sour
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Fifth Circuit and Texas Supreme Court Part Company on Ponzi Fraudulent Transfers
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Cross-Border:

New Uncertainty Surrounds Disputes Over Foreign Stays
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Discharge:

Husky Breeds a New Species of Loss of Discharge Not Benefiting All Creditors
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Media:

Here's How Much Gawker's Nick Denton Will Be Paid to Not Work
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Melania Trump Hires Hulk Hogan's Lawyer to Threaten Media Outlets
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A.J. Daulerio To Peter Thiel: Do You Want My Rice Cooker And Dishes?
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Autos:

Judge denies GM's mid-trial bid to toss ignition switch case GM Seeks To End Last Ignition Switch Bellwether
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VW Said to Pay Compensation to Supplier to End Standoff VW’s Crippling Supplier Feud Shows Limits of Penny Pinching VW Agrees to Settlement Talks with States
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Furniture:

La-Z-Boy shares plummet 15 pct after it reports same-store sales decline
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IP:

Hollywood company stripped of intellectual property ownership
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Accounting:

Deloitte is being sued after failing to flag up more than $200 million of money laundering
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Gambling:

Caesars Plea for $990 Million to Reorganize Ignored by Owners
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Caesars Back In Bankruptcy Court To Hold Off Creditor Suits
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Caesars argues fresh lawsuit shield will help bankruptcy deal
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Sporting Goods:

Bauer Hockey gear maker taps debt restructuring advisor -sources
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Mass Torts:

Court To Hear Honeywell's Bid For Asbestos Victims' Names
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Video Games:

The state will recover $25.6 million from banks involved in Curt Schilling's 38 Studios fiasco
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UK:

Ex-BHS boss who bought chain for £1 tells court he would struggle to afford taxis
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U.K. Commercial Real Estate Values Down After Brexit
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Scotland has lowest proportion of businesses at risk of insolvency
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Brexit expected to result in more bankruptcies
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U.K. Property Values? They Are Anyone’s Guess
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Convenience store chain creditors owed millions
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Canada:

Taxes, fees and bankruptcies up as Newfoundland and Labrador budget reverberates
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India:

Enforce Bankruptcy Code soon: Jaitley Implement bankruptcy law: FM to officials Arun Jaitley takes stock of progress on bankruptcy law implementation
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Piramal partners Bain Capital to invest in distressed debt
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Bahamas:

Baha Mar will resume construction next month, prime minister says Creditors Hail PM For 'Not Blinking' In Baha Mar Talks
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China Contractor Gets Second Chance at Bahamas Luxury Hotel
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MENA:

Declaring a Debtor Bankrupt in the UAE
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