A Tenant's Efforts to Assume and Assign a Commercial Lease in a Chapter 11 Triggers Lots of Issues to Fight About
A tenant's right to assume, and then possibly assign, its lease involves more than whether the tenant has met the statutory criteria. Procedural issues are involved such as whether and when to hold an auction, with or without a stalking horse bid; whether the stalking horse bid, or the bidding terms and procedures governing any such auction, unduly favor the stalking horse bid over other potential buyers (including the break-up fee); and whether, particularly in the case of multiple leases, the debtor or Trustee should sell designation rights instead of assigning the leases.
