{"id":3595,"date":"2005-11-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-role-seen-positive-in-restructurings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2005\/hedge-funds-role-seen-positive-in-restructurings.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds&#8217; role seen positive in restructurings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  NEW YORK, Nov 14 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. bankruptcy code changes enacted last month make it more difficult for debt-strapped companies to restructure on their own terms, but the rising role of hedge funds  may be offsetting those challenges, experts said at a conference on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>  The sweeping bankruptcy code changes, instituted on Oct. 17, impose for the first time a two-year limit for companies to formulate a restructuring plan, a period that some say is too short for  large companies.<\/p>\n<p>  But the new rules is expediting the growing role of hedge funds, which in recent years have stepped up investments into distressed and bankrupt companies, experts said at a New York conference at  Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/investing\/financeArticle.aspx?type=fundsNews2&amp;storyID=URI:urn:newsml:reuters.com:20051114:MTFH44084_2005-11-14_22-55-31_N14417279:1\"><strong>Read Complete  Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, Nov 14 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. bankruptcy code changes enacted last month make it more difficult for debt-strapped companies to restructure on their own terms, but the rising role of hedge funds may be offsetting those challenges, experts said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}