creditor
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The creditor committee alleges Dish’s parent company transferred billions of dollars in assets out of reach before filing for bankruptcy in June.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
The GLA said that, as is standard practice in insolvency law, it had informed the administrators of the government's interest as a potential creditor.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
China remains Zambia's largest bilateral creditor, with about US$4.5 billion owed to Chinese lenders, equivalent to roughly 15 percent of total public and publicly guaranteed debt, according to the IMF.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
The leverage the city has on the pending sale includes its status as a creditor seeking to recoup public funds spent to protect the complex with fencing and deploy police security to prevent vandalism.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
The salesman had told Hale that because he wasn’t Roan’s relative, he could become his beneficiary only if he were his creditor.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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Another advantage to a trust: For the most part, an irrevocable trust would shield assets from your mother’s creditors, if she had any.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
According to the filing, Signorello Estate believes it owes its creditors between $10 million and $50 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Sources have said contracts under the previous iteration of LIV Golf will finish because of this court filing, with amounts owed to players and other creditors addressed through the court process.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Thoma Bravo handed over software maker Medallia to creditors, led by Blackstone and including KKR and Apollo, earlier this year after the company could no longer pay about $3 billion in loans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
His wife calculated that he must be losing huge sums of money, because at the end of the month there was invariably a long line of creditors at their door.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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