National Steel Corp.

Company

• Pre-filing annual sales: $4,137 (millions of current dollars)
• Pre-filing assets: $3,831 (millions of current dollars)
• Pre-filing number of employees: 8,342
• Sub-industry: 33 Primary Metal Industries
• Place of incorporation: DE
• Court for city of headquarters: IN South Bend
• In business at filing? yes

Bankruptcy case

• Chapter at filing: Chapter 11
• Who filed case? debtors
• Debtor's lead attorney: Piper Rudnick
• Date of filing: March 6, 2002
• Judge at filing: John H. Squires
• Court district of filing: IL ND
• Court city of filing: Chicago
• Case number: 02-08699
• Cause of bankruptcy: Not tort
• Forum shop? Forum Shop


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


• Disposition status: confirmed
• Date of disposition: October 23, 2003
• Judge at disposition: John H. Squires
• Days from filing to disposition: 596

After the case

• Did firm emerge? company did not emerge
• Did firm refile? not emerged 5 years