S&C Critical Insights

About S&C Critical Insights

Sullivan & Cromwell present the S&C Critical Insights podcast. Topics include M&A trends across industries, corporate governance including shareholder activism, litigation, arbitration, products liability, and more.

Publisher

Sullivan & Cromwell

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Mar 2021

Latest episode

1 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 130 episodes have a transcript.

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   1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Tough Times for Liquidating Trusts?

   Host John Smith, JD, and guest Jane Doe, CPA, explore the challenges facing liquidating trusts in this insightful interview.

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   14 Apr 2026

   Tariffs: SCOTUS Decision in Learning Resources, Refunds and Next Steps

   In this episode of S&C’s Critical Insights, Eric Kadel and Andrew DeFilippis, Co-Heads of S&C’s Tariffs Response Team, and associate Michael Loughlin discuss recent developments in tariffs, including the Supreme Court’s decision in Learning Resources, considerations surrounding tariff refunds and the emerging marked for refunds.

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   12 Feb 2026

   The Rise of Derivative Claims Under Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act

   In this episode of S&C’s Critical Insights, Christopher Viapiano, Co-Head of S&C’s Securities Litigation Group, and Litigation partners Lenny Traps and Oliver Engebretson-Schooley, discuss strategies to defend against an emerging and increasingly important development in stockholder derivative litigation: the rise of derivative claims under Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act.

Inside a recent episode

Tough Times for Liquidating Trusts?

Published 1 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Under an illustrative waterfall, the admin claims and priority claims wouldn't receive distributions until litigation recoveries and distributable proceeds approached somewhere around $2 billion. So the administrative solvency of the case depended on really substantial litigation recovery in a roughly two-year period. Right. And so just to take a little bit of a step back, the usual course is you confirm a plan and relatively soon after that, whether it's days, weeks, maybe months in some situations for regulatory approvals or whatever it is, you emerge, right? And one of the requirements of emergence or consummation of the Chapter 11 plan is that you've paid all administrative and priority creditors. […]

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