How to Use Chapter 11 in a Sentence

Chapter 11

noun

• Later that month, Cineworld emerged from Chapter 11 after reducing its debt levels.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 3 Dec. 2024
• As part of the sale, the company has entered Chapter 11.
  — Annie Blay, Allure, 12 Jan. 2023
• But Kalamarie will flourish, and my chapter 11 will have all been worth it.
  — Chelsea Peng, Marie Claire, 31 Aug. 2016
• That sets the seafood chain up to soon exit Chapter 11 protection, which the company filed for back in May.
  — Sean Conlon, CNBC, 6 Sep. 2024
• Dozens of retailers, big and small, have filed for Chapter 11 protection this year.
  — baltimoresun.com, 3 Aug. 2020
• But things quickly went south for the nascent automaker, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June.
  — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 22 Aug. 2023
• The news comes less than a year after the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and announced an agreement to sell its assets to lenders.
  — Evan Rosen, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
• The Chapter 11 filing put the above cases on inactive status.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2024
• The retailer closed on its deal to exit bankruptcy on Monday, ending a three-month stay in Chapter 11.
  — Evan Clark, WWD, 24 June 2024
• The sale caps a remarkable turnaround for the firm, which has undergone two Chapter 11 bankruptcies.
  — By angus Berwick, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2023
• Filing for chapter 11 freezes lawsuits and provides breathing room to work out a plan to compensate abuse victims.
  — Tom Corrigan, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2018
• The company also put a cost-cutting plan in place last summer, ahead of declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy in court this month.
  — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2024
• Many analysts warn that Spirit could file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to address more than $1 billion in debt due next year.
  — Edward Russell, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
• Vice Media filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in May, after months of struggling to pay its bills.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 31 July 2023
• Franchise Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Sunday, joining a wave of retailers that have had to restructure over the last two years.
  — Richard Collings, Axios, 4 Nov. 2024
• Driving the news: Discount retail chain Big Lots entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week, with a stalking horse agreement to boot.
  — Kimberly Chin, Axios, 16 Sep. 2024
• The Chapter 11 filing followed Cineworld failing to find buyers for some or all of its exhibition assets.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2024
• The committee could also request a judge convert the Chapter 11 case to Chapter 7, which could see Giuliani forced to liquidate his assets.
  — New York Daily News, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2024
• Hertz had emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy only a few months earlier.
  — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2024
• Those trials were scheduled after a judge in July threw out a J&J unit’s latest Chapter 11 case aimed at resolving all current and future talc claims.
  — Jef Feeley, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
• In March, the restaurant filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, as reported by the BizTimes.
  — Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2024
• The potential silver lining is that the distressed retailers who were on shaky ground are now already in Chapter 11, leaving possibly fewer left to file in the months ahead.
  — Vicki M. Young, Sourcing Journal, 7 Oct. 2024
• Four years later the company filed for bankruptcy in New York and tried to reorganize under Chapter 11.
  — Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Feb. 2024
• But a judge tossed the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, according to media reports.
  — Aaron Gregg, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2023
• Rite Aid filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sunday after struggling for years with debt and sluggish sales.
  — Marley Jay, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2023
• The company filed for Chapter 11 protection from creditors less than two months later, in what was then the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.
  — By wsj Staff, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2023
• The judge approved a request to convert the case from a Chapter 11 bankruptcy — in which managers retain control — to a Chapter 7 liquidation, in which they are supplanted by a trustee.
  — Steven Church, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2023
• Soon after, Haggen filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and closed some 83 California stores, costing thousands of jobs.
  — Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
• Hours before the new case was filed, an official committee of talc claimants filed court papers arguing that a second Chapter 11 petition would be wrong.
  — Steven Church, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2023
• This comes just weeks after ultra-low-cost competitor Spirit Airlines rocked the industry by filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
  — Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 3 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024