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Recent posts
- 💥More Restaurant Distress!💥
🥩New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Filing - Cerca Trova Restaurant Group Holdings Inc. (d/b/a Out West Restaurant Group)🥩 Source: Getty Images Another day, another restaurant bankruptcy. On November 2, 2026, San Diego-based Cerca Trova Restaurant Group Holdings Inc. and four affiliates including Out West Restaurant Group Inc. (collectively, the “company” or the “debtors”), a franchisee of Outback Steakhouse of Florida Inc. (“Outback Steakhouse,” which, itself is an affiliate of Bloomin’ Brands Inc., ($BLMN) ), filed chapter 11 bankruptcy cases in the District of Delaware ( Judge Goldblatt ). The…
- 💥Depressed RX💥
Photo by Shubham Dhage on Unsplash . The RX world this week. Maybe we’re suffering from delusions of grandeur here but something tells us that many of you are expecting us to weigh with our usual brand of snark on the epic collapse of once-venerated law firm, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP .
- 💥Should Nathan Fielder Buy Spirit’s Data?💥
Source: Getty Images Nathan Fielder’s A24-distributed “documentary,” You Can See Everything , is all the rage these days. To date, the film has grossed over $45.1mm against a modest $7–$10mm budget — an impressive feat considering it began in roughly 850 theaters before expanding to around 2,650 last weekend. Momentum continues to build: despite its relatively narrow release, it ranked as the number one movie in America last Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, as well as this Sunday. On Friday and Saturday, it finished just a few million dollars behind Clayface , even while playing in 800 fewer…
- 💥Is Getty a Prepack in Name Only?💥
Photo by Jeff Kingma on Unsplash , which is, unbeknownst to us prior to this chapter 11 filing, owned by Getty Images. “ This is an unusual chapter 11 case. It is presented as a prepack. But it is not a prepack. ” — Robert Stark of Brown Rudnick LLP, representing equityholders and warrant-related claimholders. On October 21, 2026, Seattle-based Getty Images Holdings, Inc. ($GETY) (“Getty”) and seven affiliates (collectively, the “company” or the “debtors”) filed prepackaged chapter 11 bankruptcy cases in the District of Delaware ( Judge Stickles ) — the culmination of clusterf*ckery that…
- 📺 New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Filing - RiverStreet Communications of Virginia, Inc.📺
On October 21, 2026, RiverStreet Communications of Virginia, Inc. (“RiverStreet” or the “company”), and 20 of its affiliates including Wilkes Telephone Membership Corporation (“WTMC,” collectively with RiverStreet and the 18 other affiliates, the “debtors”) filed chapter 11 bankruptcy sale cases in the Eastern District of Virginia ( Judge Santoro ). Before we delve into how rural broadband in North Carolina and Virginia is, subject to higher or better offers, about to be powered by private equity, 😔, let’s strap in for some history class.
- 💥Hain Celestial: Earthly Issues💥
Back in mid-August we asked … … because the Hoboken NJ-based The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. ($HAIN) (“Hain” or the “company”) — purveyor of organic and natural food, beverage, and personal care products — was looking sickly due to years and years of declining sales compounded by … well, in some cases, literal GLP-1-like compounds. That there 👆coverage dove into how net sales, gross profit, gross margins, and adjusted EBITDA have all been ⬇️, ⬇️,, ⬇️, and ⬇️. In February ‘26, the company sold off its North American snacks business for $115mm of cash for net proceeds of $101mm, which the…
- 🍃New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Filing - Diversified Botanics Inc.🍃
Back on October 7, 2026, Utah-based Diversified Botanics Inc. (the “debtor”) filed a chapter 11 bankruptcy case in the District of Delaware ( Judge Horan ) and, congratulations to the company, this is our first ever kratom seller! These cases generally suck so pardon our excitement over something new!! For the uninitiated — among whom Johnny is not — kratom is a botanical product derived from the Mitragyna speciosa tree, a tropical evergreen tree native to Southeast Asia. Allegedly, products derived from kratom can be good for performance, recovery, mood and cognition, so some — and by “some”…
- 💥Biglaw Bustle💥
Hike, baby, hike? That appeared to be the latest vibe after the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics dropped its September inflation data on Wednesday. The data showed that things, price-wise, are moving in a very undesirable direction. Energy costs led the way, helping fuel, 🙄, a 0.6% increase in the consumer price index (“CPI”) versus August — the fastest sequential increase in five months, 😬. CPI increased to 3.7% on an annualized basis (and core is up 2.6%). Source: Avory Foundation Healthcare costs and rent also negatively contributed to the figures, making September’s report, “ more…
- 💥New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Filing - Quality Fresca I, LLC💥
Source: Getty Images We commented recently about the rise of restaurant-related bankruptcies: We therefore felt compelled to go back to early August — August 4, 2026, to be exact — when Palm Beach, FL-based Quality Fresca I, LLC (the “debtor”) filed a chapter 11 bankruptcy case in the Southern District of Florida ( Judge Kimball ). The debtor is a franchisee of the ATL-based Moe’s Southwest Grill (“Moe’s), a Tex-Mex restaurant chain, and has sixty-nine locations in Florida, South Carolina, Virginia, and Washington D.C., which makes it one of the largest franchisees in the Moe’s ecosystem. As…
- 💥New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - Omnis Pleasants💥
Source: Getty Images Way back on July 26, 2026, Omnis Pleasants LLC (the “debtor”) filed a messy, freefall chapter 11 bankruptcy case in the District of Delaware ( Judge Owens ). The debtor owns and operates a ~1.3k MW coal-fired power plant, which sits on 190 acres in Belmont, West Virginia. From an operational standpoint, one might question whether it should even be in chapter 11.
- 💥The Saudis Ain’t Playin’💥
⚡️Update: The Children’s Place Inc. ($PLCE)⚡️ Source: soon-to-be-in-chapter-11-and-taken-private, Getty Images We’ve covered The Children’s Place Inc. ($PLCE) (“TCP” or the “company”), the children’s clothing retailer (and acquirer of twice-bankrupt Gymboree ), extensively over the years and all of that coverage 👇 is worth revisiting just to understand the company’s absolutely batsh*t insane trajectory: But, hot damn, April ‘25 is a long time ago so it’s time to jump back into the suck and get y’all refreshed. The company is majority owned by Saudi Arabia-based Mithaq Capital (“Mithaq”)…
- 🔥A/R A-Rising🔥
Photo by Anne Nygård on Unsplash With a dearth of macroeconomic news this past week — market pricing for a Fed hike in October now stands at just a 17.2% — we can turn to some more restructuring-oriented headlines. Mega chapter 11 bankruptcy cases may be in short supply but filings are, in fact, happening. Here, as reported in ABL Advisor and provided by Epiq AACER , are the stats: Source: ABL Advisor Left unsaid, about 6555 of the commercial chapter 11 filings are complete and utter dogsh*t. Maybe a pipeline of higher quality cases is building …? The volume of distressed U.S. leveraged loans…
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