Articles tagged with: Lear Corporation

How Did Lear Decide Which Suppliers are its Critical Vendors

Lear Corporation and co-debtor subsidiaries (“Lear”) have estimated that they collectively have 1,600 vendors with outstanding prepetition claims.  Lear has identified 214 of these vendors as “critical vendors”.  As part of its first day motions, Lear has requested an order from the Bankruptcy Court authorizing Lear to pay up to an aggregate of $50,100,000 ($25,050,000 pursuant to an interim order and up to an additional $25,050,000 pursuant to a final order) of prepetition claims held by these 214 “critical vendors.”   In the Lear bankruptcies and in other bankruptcies where similar motions have been filed, suppliers (and their lenders and stakeholders) repeatedly are asking:  “What is a ‘critical vendor’ and what are the chances of my company being one?”

Lear Corporation – 50 Largest Unsecured Bankruptcy Creditors

Lear Corporation has requested authority to file a consolidated list of the 50 largest unsecured creditors for itself and its affiliated Debtors (the “Top Unsecured Creditor List”) in lieu of a separate list for each of the Debtors. The largest unsecured trade payable on the list is $5,076,686.81 due to Johnson Controls, Inc.

Lear Bankruptcy – 24 Debtors and Petitions

Lear Corporation and 23 affiliated entities (”Debtors”) filed a petitions in Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York for relief under chapter 11 of title 11 of the United States Code.  Contemporaneously with the filing of their petitions, the Debtors filed a motion requesting that the Court consolidate their chapter 11 cases for administrative purposes only under the Lear Corporation case number 09-14326. The following are the names and case numbers (as available ) of the bankruptcy petitions.