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How a New Regulatory Framework Could Contain Bank Runs and Promote Recovery

Reynolds Holding

Since the collapse of SVB, Credit Suisse, and other smaller banks that year, many reform proposals have focused on stronger ex-ante prudential measures, such as higher capital and liquidity rules ( Admati et al., Both measures represent a form of preventive, partial bail-in to preserve going-concern value for solvent intermediaries.

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Skadden Discusses De-SPACed Companies Seeking Chapter 11 Protection

Reynolds Holding

The basic premise of Chapter 11 is that even an insolvent (or otherwise financially distressed business) may have significant going-concern value after its existing debt and other liabilities are restructured, and that creditors as a whole are better off preserving the business and sharing in its going-concern value than liquidating it piecemeal.