The Backstop Rights Offerings: Securing Capital During Your Restructuring Process

Partners Adam Paul, Lucy Kweskin and Tyler Ferguson co-authored the chapter on “The Backstop Rights Offerings: Securing Capital During Your Restructuring Process,” which provides an overview of how backstop agreements are utilized in Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, addresses common critiques of backstop agreements and analyzes recent trends in backstop agreements through the lenses of both case law and key terms in the underlying backstop agreements.