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                    <title><![CDATA[Business Bankruptcy Filings Decrease to Lowest Level in Four Years]]></title>
                    <link>http://distresseddebt.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=jsdbmkwfnxxobcl</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Business bankruptcy filings, which include Chapter 11, Chapter 7 and some Chapter 13 cases, decrease...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:30:23 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Strategic Value Partners Closes $918M Special Situations Fund]]></title>
                    <link>http://distresseddebt.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=esohfaugkpmyugk</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Strategic Value Partners, a Greenwich, Conn.-based private equity firm that focuses on distressed, e...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:31:05 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[CMBS Loan Liquidations Push Down Delinquency Rate, Trepp Says]]></title>
                    <link>http://distresseddebt.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=vosaavexwxclers</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[The delinquency rate for loans in commercial mortgage-backed securities fell by six basis points in ...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:23:41 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Investment Banks Redwood Capital, Gemini Partners Merge]]></title>
                    <link>http://distresseddebt.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=rpdpatrettfbqdt</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Redwood Capital Group, a New York-based investment bank offering restructuring, corporate finance, v...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:25:01 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Lazard Taps Bloom as Senior Adviser for Restructuring]]></title>
                    <link>http://distresseddebt.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=mzpnbmhykvdpyeo</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Investment bank Lazard Ltd. tapped former Obama Administration manufacturing policy adviser Ron Bloo...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:01:52 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[United Retail Group Files Chapter 11, Plans Sale to Versa Capital]]></title>
                    <link>http://distresseddebt.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=drlewvovsxctlww</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[United Retail Group, a Rochelle Park, N.J.-based owner of the Avenue women&apos;s apparel store chain, fi...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:48:29 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Middle Market Companies at Risk as Corporate Debt Maturity Wall Moves to 2016, Moody&apos;s Says]]></title>
                    <link>http://distresseddebt.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=qmiuzaaktmsxdeq</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Middle market companies with lower ratings will face difficulties refinancing their debt when they h...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:06:00 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[TARP Outlays to Spike by $61B in 2012, CBO Says]]></title>
                    <link>http://distresseddebt.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=lngdlvyvpsiwpnx</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Outlays in the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) for 2012 will be nearly $61 billion higher than ...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Bankruptcy Claims Trading Dollar Volume Increased by 54% in December]]></title>
                    <link>http://distresseddebt.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=fzfhaosmfofbzrn</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[The dollar volume of bankruptcy claims trades finished 2011 strong as $3.76 billion in face value tr...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:12:00 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Hilco Expands Commercial Real Estate Dispositions Practice with Schneider Hiring]]></title>
                    <link>http://distresseddebt.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=zshpcvuauieptzf</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Hilco Real Estate, a Northbrook, Ill.-based commercial real estate advisory firm, expanded its comme...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:56:15 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Cantor Fitzgerald Hires Distressed Credit Fixed Income Managing Directors]]></title>
                    <link>http://distresseddebt.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=xzqgitdjkswxkej</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald expanded its credit fixed income team as it hired Jack Oestreicher...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:05:00 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Ener1 Files Prepackaged Chapter 11 to Recapitalize, Restructure Firm]]></title>
                    <link>http://distresseddebt.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=xvhjxkhbawtpnzj</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Ener1 Inc., a manufacturer of batteries, fuel cells and other energy storage solutions for the trans...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:24:00 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[DE Shaw Spinoff Stellus Capital Management to Provide Distressed, Rescue Financing]]></title>
                    <link>http://distresseddebt.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=bosnksadcovrchn</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Private equity firm D.E. Shaw Group spun off its direct capital unit to create private equity affili...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:06:10 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Alvarez &amp; Marsal Hires Hosni as Turnaround, Restructuring Managing Director in France]]></title>
                    <link>http://distresseddebt.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=loxpvaubresjyay</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Turnaround management firm Alvarez &amp;amp; Marsal expanded its European business as it hired Tarek Hos...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:54:24 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[TARP Small Business Program Wind Down Completed with $8M Gain]]></title>
                    <link>http://distresseddebt.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=ivelvbiyaufdusi</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[The U.S. Treasury Department completed the wind down of the Troubled Asset Relief Program&apos;s Small Bu...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:51:32 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Avenue Capital Group Hires Trevor to Lead New Distress-for-Control Initiative]]></title>
                    <link>http://distresseddebt.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=anybewvarnfphwb</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Avenue Capital Group, a New York-based private equity firm that invests in distressed and undervalue...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:44:00 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Related Cos. Raises $825M for Distressed Real Estate Fund]]></title>
                    <link>http://distresseddebt.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=hlbyofcuqigkfsu</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Related Cos. said it surpassed its fund-raising target by $75 million for its distressed real estate...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:51:00 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Debt Buyers Covet FDIC Deals]]></title>
                    <link>http://distresseddebt.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=oakvxdvpkpjkphp</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[As competition remains fierce to acquire commercial real estate debt from the Federal Deposit Insura...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:40:00 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Pharmaceuticals, Grocers Next Victims of E-commerce]]></title>
                    <link>http://distresseddebt.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=wuihwiveqavvmap</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Grocery stores and over-the-counter pharmaceutical retailers will be among the next retail subsector...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:50:00 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Z Capital Partners, SAC Capital Advisors Take Control of Neways in Restructuring]]></title>
                    <link>http://distresseddebt.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=szqpptdruimnenu</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Private equity firms Z Capital Partners and SAC Capital Advisors completed an out-of-court restructu...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:29:00 PST</pubDate>
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