Chapter 11 Venue Choices by Large Public Companies

This report responds to a request by the Judicial Conference Committee on the Administration of the Bankruptcy System that the Federal Judicial Center provide empirical information & analysis pertaining to the question of whether or not the bankruptcy case venue statutes & procedural rule should be amended. The report provides two kinds of information: (1) the results from a survey sent to all bankruptcy judges in August 1996, & (2) analyses of administrative & demographic characteristics of large public companies that emerged from Chapter 11 during 1994 & 1995. Charts & tables.