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Birmingham City Council, the largest local authority in Europe, declares itself bankrupt. The council says all spending, with the exception of protecting vulnerable people and statutory services, will stop immediately.
2023-09-5

Google's Russian subsidiary announces its intention to file for bankruptcy after Russian authorities seize the company's bank account.
2022-05-18

Colombian airline carrier Avianca files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and liquidates its Peruvian subsidiary as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020-05-10

German airline Condor, a subsidiary of the now insolvent Thomas Cook Group, files for bankruptcy.
2019-09-25

With $18.5 billion in debts, the city of Detroit, Michigan files for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection, becoming the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. [http:--www.freep.com-article-20130718-NEWS01-307180107-Detroit-bankruptcy-filing-Kevyn-Orr-emergency-manager "(Detroit Free Press)"]
2013-07-18

Electric car company Better Place announces it will file for bankruptcy.
2013-05-26

A United States federal grand jury in Georgia indicts four employees of bankrupt Virginia-based Peanut Corporation of America for the 2009 salmonella outbreak that killed nine people and infected hundreds. The 75–count indictment describes contaminated or misbranded food by company owner Stewart Parnell, his brother and company vice president Michael Parnell, and two company managers. The charges are conspiracy, wire fraud, and obstruction of justice. This infection triggered the most extensive food recall ever in United States history.
2013-02-20

A bankruptcy court appointed examiner, Susheel Kirpalani, issues a detailed report highly critical of the pre-bankruptcy restructuring of Dynegy Inc at the expense of bondholders and for the benefit of Carl Icahn and other shareholders.
2012-03-9

A bankruptcy court judge ruled that the trustee liquidating MF Global, James Giddens, and his law firm, Hughes Hubbard & Reed, are sufficiently "disinterested" in the disposition of assets for Giddens to continue his work in that capacity.
2011-12-27

Borders Group, the second largest bookstore chain in the United States, files for bankruptcy with plans to sell at least 200 stores.
2011-02-16