Bankruptcy Law and Insolvency Law

In this episode of the Lowenstein Bankruptcy Lowdown, partner and Vice Chair of the Bankruptcy & Restructuring Department Brent Weisenberg discusses how pro bono advocacy and commercial bankruptcy practice can meaningfully intersect—and why that work has been among the most rewarding aspects of the group's practice

Private credit confronted a whirlwind of market forces in 2025. Tariff anxiety saw the public debt market slow to a crawl during the first half of the year, only to rally in Q3 with blockbuster M&A activity and intense competition between the private credit and broadly syndicated loan ("BSL") markets.

While Chapter 11 does not require debtor insolvency, it does require good faith (applicable to the petition and the plan), which for solvent debtors seeking to reject and modify lease-counterparty rights...