Geneva Steel Company (1999)

Company

• Pre-filing annual sales: $1,300 (millions of current dollars)
• Pre-filing assets: $1,092 (millions of current dollars)
• Pre-filing number of employees: 1,625
• Sub-industry: 33 Primary Metal Industries
• Place of incorporation: UT
• Court for city of headquarters: UT Salt Lake City
• In business at filing? yes

Bankruptcy case

• Chapter at filing: Chapter 11
• Who filed case? debtors
• Debtor's lead attorney: Cadwalader Wickersham
• Date of filing: February 1, 1999
• Judge at filing: J. Thomas Greene
• Court district of filing: UT
• Court city of filing: Salt Lake City
• Case number: 99-21130
• Cause of bankruptcy: Not tort
• Forum shop? Filed at headquarters


• Case transferred? no
• Destination court of transfer: not applicable
• Creditors committee appointed? yes
• §363 sale: no 363 sale
• Dip loan final approval? yes
• Plan type: free fall


• Disposition status: confirmed
• Date of disposition: December 8, 2000
• Judge at disposition: Glen E. Clark
• Days from filing to disposition: 676

After the case

• Did firm emerge? Company emerged
• Did firm refile? emerged 5 years, refiled