Cadence Innovation, GM Settle Round 3 – Split Baby

In another blow to maintaining administrative solvency (much less any hope of recovery by the unsecured creditors on prepetition claims),  on March 23, 2009, Cadence Innovation settled its $4,914,075 claim against GM for $2,830,000 ($2,000,000 cash and $830,000 GM loan reduction).  For Cadence Innovation this result certainly represents a disappointment.  The $4,914,075 certainly would have been viewed as “in the bank.”

How Much for that Equipment? The Cadence Innovation Liquidation

Feb. 20, 2009 – On February 12, 2009, another volley was fired in the onging Cadence Innovation LLC (“Cadence”) battle with GM.  This time Cadence fired the volley.  In an adversarial “Complaint to recover Money and to Enforce Accomodation Agreement and Stipulation and Consent Order”, Cadence alleges that GM is refusing to pay Cadence more than $4,914,075, including amounts due for equipment and raw material that GM purchased from Cadence.  The purchase price was to be determined as a post-sale matter by an agreed appraiser.  The designated appraiser firm was Hilco Appraisal Services, LLC. (“Hilco”).

The story is not the latest GM/Cadence fight.  The story is the results of the appraisal, which was released on January 13, 2009 and attached to the February 12, 2009 Cadence complaint.  This appraisal shows that the orderly liquidation value is $.10 on the dollar of fair market value.

Suppliers Lining Up for 503(b)(9) Administrative Expense Claims

11 USC Section 503(b)(9) provides that a supplier shall be entitled to an “administrative expense claim” for “the value of any goods received by the debtor within 20 days before the date of commencement of a case under this title in which the goods have been sold to the debtor in the ordinary course of such debtor’s business.” 

Clearly motivated by Cadence’s announcement that it is liquidating, suppliers are making sure that they are in line for allowance of administrative expense claims pursuant to

Cadence Innovation LLC – Decision to Liquidate Means Preference Claims are Coming

Original Post 12/28/2008; See Updates At End of this Post

For a supplier confronted with a customer bankruptcy, nothing changes bad to worse like the failure of the customer to successfully reorganize.  This means that a filing under Chapter 11, which creates the possibility that the customer will continue operations, now becomes a liquidation under Chapter 7.  Worse still, the supplier who has received payments on open account during the bankruptcy preference period will likely face a bankruptcy preference claim and faces the real prospect of receiving a demand for repayment of those amounts.

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