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According to a Detroit area bankruptcy attorney, legal costs for the bankruptcy proceedings could cost Detroit "tens of millions to hundreds of millions of dollars." [34] Orr hopes that Detroit can emerge from bankruptcy by late Summer or Fall in 2014; he says that the process is moving as "expeditiously as possible". [35]
Kevyn Duane Orr [1] (born May 11, 1958) is an American lawyer who served as the emergency financial manager of the city of Detroit from 2013 to 2014 during the city's Chapter 9 bankruptcy. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Orr is now a partner at the law firm Jones Day in its bankruptcy practice.
By the time Detroit declared bankruptcy at 4:06 p.m. on July 18, 2013, Detroit had accumulated $18 billion in debt and city retirees' pension funds were underfunded by $3.5 billion. The number of ...
On July 18, 2013, the restructuring expert did just that, making Detroit the largest city in the U.S. to file for bankruptcy. “Bankruptcy is a miserable process," Orr, 65, told The Associated ...
By KATE ROGERS Detroit made history Thursday as the largest American city in history to ever file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection. The once vibrant city rooted in auto manufacturing and music ...
Chapter 11 cases dropped by 60% from 1991 to 2003. One 2007 study [40] found this was because businesses were turning to bankruptcy-like proceedings under state law, rather than the federal bankruptcy proceedings, including those under chapter 11. Insolvency proceedings under state law, the study stated, are currently faster, less expensive ...