How to Use Chapter 11 in a Sentence

Chapter 11

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • But funding itself through Chapter 11 will be expensive.
    Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • WeWork has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, marking a stunning fall for the office sharing company once seen as a Wall Street darling that promised to upend the way people went to work around the world.
    Wyatte Grantham-Philips, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Nov. 2023
  • According to the Wall Street Journal, people familiar with the matter said any bankruptcy filing is not imminent, and recent talks have focused on reaching an agreement to support a Chapter 11 filing.
    Megan Poinski, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024

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