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GM Bankruptcy – Cure Costs Procedures Catastrophic Failures

Automotive suppliers can only hope that GM will make better cars than they do cure cost procedures.  Based on the cure cost objections (“Cure Cost Objections”) »»

GM Bankruptcy – Selective Cure List and Substantive Objections

There were approximately 479 objections filed by the June 15, 2009 deadline by suppliers and other trade creditors to GM’s proposed cure costs (click link to see »»

GM Bankruptcy – For Suppliers Chrysler Bankruptcy Lesson 1

(Update: Since the original post date we have added two additional posts on the GM Cure Cost Procedure and the Supplier Objections that were filed to »»

Chrysler LLC Bankruptcy – Supplier Contract Cure Costs Horrors

A scanning of the “Cure Costs” objections shows a brewing mess that might hamper (depending on how the various objections are handled by the judge) the planned »»

GM Bankruptcy – 50 Largest Unsecured Bankruptcy Creditors

General Motors Corporation filed bankruptcy in the Southern District of New York on June 1, 2009.  It has requested authority to file a consolidated list of the »»

GM Bankruptcy – Debtors and Petitions

General Motors Corporation (“GM”) and 3 affiliated entities (collectively with GM, “Debtors”) have filed bankruptcy.  Chevrolet-Saturn of Harlem, Inc. and Saturn, LLC are direct subsidiaries of General »»

Chrysler LLC Bankruptcy – Supplier $1,000,000 Cure Cost Club

Chrysler LLC has filed 4 (the original and 1 amendment and 2 supplemental) lists of Assumed Designated Supplier Contracts and Cure Costs.  Undoubtedly, there are changes that »»

Chrysler LLC Bankruptcy – Asset Sale Fairness Opinion

Chrysler has filed a “Declaration of Bradley A. Robins in Support of the Sale of the Debtors Assets to New Chrysler” (click document name to view) that »»

Chrysler LLC Bankruptcy – A 21 Day Scorecard Looks Good

The 21 day scorecard of the Chrysler bankruptcy looks very good for Chrysler and its success in achieving the sale of the operating assets to “New Chrysler”. »»

Chrysler LLC Bankruptcy – Scheduling of First Day Motion Hearing

The hearing on the most significant and controversial first day motions is scheduled for May 4, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. in Courtroom 523 at the United »»

Chrysler LLC Bankruptcy – 21 First Day Motions

Chrysler LLC has filed 21 first day motions and the Affidavit of Ronald E. Kolka in Support. The motions include one critical vendor motion to authorize payment »»

Chrysler LLC – 50 Largest Unsecured Bankruptcy Creditors

[Update May 29, 2009: Please note that the following Largest Unsecured Creditor list is taken from the Chrysler LLC bankruptcy filing. Subsequently, Chrysler published a »»

Chrysler LLC Bankruptcy – Debtors and Petitions

4-30-2009 Chrysler LLC and 24 affiliated entities (“Debtors”) filed a petitions in Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York for relief under chapter 11 of »»

How Many Lawyers Can Fit in a Chrysler … Bankruptcy?

In manufacturing and particularly in the automotive sector, lean means eliminating waste; single-piece flow, 5s activities, value stream mapping …. . All that effort to save what »»