Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - An Indebted Enterprise Can Reorganize Its Liabilities & Survive

By: Dean Shainin
Submitted: 2007-01-17 16:17:21
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Profits of commercial or business enterprises, whether a partnership or corporation, may at some point, go under. In this case, a petition for bankruptcy may be filed voluntarily by the indebted enterprise, or it may be involuntarily petitioned and taken to court by the creditors. Hence, the Chapter 11 Bankruptcy is mostly used to answer the debt liabilities of the concerned businessmen.

In the Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, also called, and officially Code-entitled Reorganization, the bankrupt commercial enterprise may still continue to operate his business in a desire that this may solve the indebtedness at the same time. Yet, this may be legally allowed only after the enterprise’s creditors and the court have approved to the business’ comprehensible plan to reorganize and repay the debts.

Under the Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, the court-approved plan of reorganization may only be granted after the indebted business has presented his business reorganization plan within 120 days of filing the bankruptcy case. Included in this is the indebted’s written disclosure statement, a sufficient document containing information concerning the enterprise’s assets, liabilities, and business affairs, provided for his creditors so they may be able to evaluate the feasibility of the reorganization plan. The final court-confirmed draft of the reorganization may include reduction of the debts by repaying only a portion of its obligations and also while completely discharging other debts altogether.

Under the Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, the indebted enterprise may also eliminate his other problematic contracts and leases, as well as recover his assets, and also rescale their business operations in order to return to its normal productivity. Upon the accomplishment of this bankruptcy petition for relief, the indebted business enterprise automatically assumes the identity of ‘debtor in possession’ referring to him as a debtor who keeps possession and control of all his commercial assets independently without the backing of an appointed case trustee while still undergoing the reorganization payment plan not exceeding 3-5 years.

In most cases, the business and all its property will not be taken control over by a US court trustee unless the judge decides its necessary. The indebted enterprise will remain a ‘debtor in possession’ until his payment plan of reorganization is finally court-confirmed, and, it is only after the indebted’s bankruptcy case is dismissed that it is procedurally converted to a Chapter 7 bankruptcy, or remains a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case with an appointed trustee.

Large businesses often use this type of business bankruptcy, wherein the debtor is allowed to keep his assets and continue the operation of the business as supervised by the court. Chapter 11 offers a lot of flexibility to a business who is considering business bankruptcy but its complexity makes it an expensive option.

However, in Reorganization, the establishment does not only survive, but in essence also becomes revitalized – restructured – reorganized.

Dean Shainin offers online Bankruptcy and debt advice. For more information, articles, current news, tools and valuable resources on bankruptcy and debt solutions, visit this site: New Bankruptcy Law

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