John Bringardner

Executive Editor - @Debtwire, @XtractResearch, @Creditflux at ION Analytics. [email protected] Views are my own.

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What's your economic outlook for the year?

This is what bankruptcy lawyer parties look like in May 2025.

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Even a broken clock is right twice a day. https://t.co/qoJSHEXefd

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@17thStCap Nothing but a thin layer of Soul spread out across a chasm of empty Redbox vending machines.

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Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment was distressed for a long time before it filed Chapter 11, but apparently nobody realized it should have gone straight to liquidation. https://t.co/0RtdccaiTC

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The SCOTUS ruling in Purdue Pharma is the right reading of the Code, but it'll keep a lot of lawyers busy unpacking bankruptcies from the past decade. It's gonna be a Mass Tort Summer.

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Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have a new ceiling. https://t.co/ncePzLIAYb

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This is not the Oaktree I was looking for. https://t.co/vDMAGf4Dbg

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RUDOLPH FILES CHAPTER 11 JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS

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Hooboy

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Welcome to bankruptcy court, Rudy.

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...first time as farce, second as Skechers.

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@HighyieldHarry Come to Miami next week for the distressed debt junket. Interview with the Brickell pod shops. We won't tell. https://t.co/FA4BklHq5M

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Bondholder haiku

Don't know if they paid
Think it's too early to tell
Can only hope so

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At $18.65bn in debt, WeWork will be Judge Sherwood's largest case yet, by a longshot.

(per the @Debtwire Restructuring Database)

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Happy WeWork Chapter 11 petition watch, to those who celebrate.

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Alright, let me see here

This company with a generic name just filed for insolvency in Germany. What exactly do they do?

(Adjusts glasses)

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Should we tell them?

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Molekule, the maker of fancy air purifiers, filed its Chapter 11 in South Florida, where its Boca lawyer is testing whether the judge will buy a very Boca view of San Francisco as a valid excuse for its downfall. https://t.co/vlrS7hqrsF

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@HighyieldHarry The lantern fly of menswear.

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When the September light hits just right, you can see how empty this building still is.