The Role of Distressed Debt Markets, Hedge Funds and Recent Trends in Bankruptcy on the Outcomes of Chapter 11 Reorganizations

Download or read book The Role of Distressed Debt Markets, Hedge Funds and Recent Trends in Bankruptcy on the Outcomes of Chapter 11 Reorganizations written by Edward I. Altman and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper explores the scope and importance of the distressed debt market and its market participants and summarizes several relevant scholarly publications relating to how both these markets and participants have performed and contributed to the Chapter 11 bankruptcy-reorganization process. We also present new and potentially important data on recent trends in the outcomes of Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization filings, over the period 1981-2013, that will, we expect, contribute to the current investigation by the “bankruptcy industry” on the possible revision of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Such questions as to the relative success, or not, of the Chapter 11 process, the time in bankruptcy for various outcomes of the process, the impact of prepackaged restructuring on the outcomes and the recovery rate to various creditor classes will be examined.