A window on the world of big-case bankruptcy.
The Bankruptcy Research Database is updated monthly and is current through the end of December 2022.
We will no longer update the Florida-UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database (BRD) after the December 2022 update.That update will be posted in early January 2023. The Cases table is now available free. You can download it using Download cases table. That link will remain active indefinitely.
What is the BRD? The Florida-UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database (BRD) is a data collection, data linking, and data dissemination project of the University of Florida Levin College of Law. The BRD's mission is to promote bankruptcy research by making bankruptcy data available to academic researchers throughout the world. The BRD contains data on all of the more than one-thousand large public companies that have filed bankruptcy cases since October 1, 1979. We consider a company "public" if it filed an Annual Report (form 10-K or form 10) with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a year ending not less than three years prior to the filing of the bankruptcy case. We consider a company "large" if that Annual Report reported assets worth $100 million or more, measured in 1980 dollars (about $355 million in 2022 dollars). Coverage includes cases filed under Chapter 7 and Chapter 11, whether filed by the debtors or creditors. We update most of our data monthly. The BRD Data. The BRD consists of five sets of data:
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