WorldSpace, Inc.

Company

• Pre-filing annual sales: $19 (millions of current dollars)
• Pre-filing assets: $466 (millions of current dollars)
• Pre-filing number of employees:
• Sub-industry: 48 Communications
• Place of incorporation: DE
• Court for city of headquarters: MD Greenbelt
• In business at filing? yes

Bankruptcy case

• Chapter at filing: Chapter 11
• Who filed case? debtors
• Debtor's lead attorney: Shearman Sterling
• Date of filing: October 17, 2008
• Judge at filing: Peter J. Walsh
• Court district of filing: DE
• Court city of filing: Wilmington
• Case number: 08-12412
• 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: converted
• Date of disposition: June 12, 2012
• Judge at disposition: Peter J. Walsh
• Days from filing to disposition: 1334

After the case

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