Real Mex Restaurants, Inc.

Company

• Pre-filing annual sales: $299 (millions of current dollars)
• Pre-filing assets: $369 (millions of current dollars)
• Pre-filing number of employees: 10,843
• Sub-industry: 58 Eating and Drinking Places
• Place of incorporation: DE
• Court for city of headquarters: CA Santa Ana
• In business at filing? yes

Bankruptcy case

• Chapter at filing: Chapter 11
• Who filed case? debtors
• Debtor's lead attorney: Milbank
• Date of filing: October 4, 2011
• Judge at filing: Peter J. Walsh
• Court district of filing: DE
• Court city of filing: Wilmington
• Case number: 11-13122
• 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: dismissed
• Date of disposition: February 21, 2013
• Judge at disposition: Brendan L. Shannon
• Days from filing to disposition: 506

After the case

• Did firm emerge? Company emerged
• Did firm refile? emerged 5 years, did not refile