Newly released data shows a significant rise in bankruptcy filings across the U.S., with commercial businesses seeing some of the steepest increases. In July 2025, total commercial bankruptcy filings ...

Commercial bankruptcy filings made another swift upward rise in April. The American Bankruptcy Institute reported that total U.S. commercial bankruptcy filings increased 32 percent year-over-year last ...

The 644 commercial Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings in April 2026 represented a 42% increase over the 454 filings recorded in April 2025, according to data provided by Epiq AACER, the leading provider of ...

Jonathan Friedland, principal in Much’s Restructuring, Insolvency & Special Situations group, served as principal author and editor-in-chief of the 2025 edition of Commercial Bankruptcy Litigation, a ...

The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 ("CAA") took effect on December 27, 2020. The mammoth spending and COVID-19 pandemic relief bill contains provisions related to commercial real estate ...

As commercial filings spiked, the American Bankruptcy Institute reported that consumer filings softened in February. According to data provided by Epiq Systems, total bankruptcy filings decreased 1 ...