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Worlds in Collision: Merger Policy in Bankruptcy

By  |  June 5, 2013

Posted by D. Daniel Sokol

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    Max Huffman, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law offers his thoughts on Worlds in Collision: Merger Policy in Bankruptcy

    ABSTRACT: Despite a deep literature on the failing firm defense and the frequency with which antitrust issues arise in corporate bankruptcy proceedings, the literature lacks an effort comprehensively to theorize an approach — and courts have not settled on a rule — that resolves the deep and enduring conflict between the estate-value-maximization goal of bankruptcy law and the consumer protection goal of merger review. This proposed article addresses that gap.