In March of 2018, amid numerous allegations of misconduct against its recently dismissed co-founder and chief executive, Harvey Weinstein, The Weinstein Company (TWC) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.* In May of that year, the bankruptcy auction process began, and by July, TWC's assets were sold to the Dallas-based private equity firm Lantern Capital Partners for US$289 million. In Part 1 of this two-part edition of Sidley’s The Restructuring Room, partner Tom Califano and managing associate J...
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