Business news for Tue, 18 Dec 2007 & with word bankruptcy. 9 news.

Hereford & Hops, a restaurant that pairs its own micro-brewed beers with cook-it-yourself steaks, has filed for bankruptcy protection.

Enron Creditors Recovery Corp. has reached an agreement with Deutsche Bank AG in the Enron Corp. bankruptcy case.

(AP) -- Sentinel Management Group Inc.'s court-appointed monitor has won approval from the bankruptcy court to sell up to $800 million in securities held by the collapsed money manager. Judge John H. Squires of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Chicago on Thursday said Sentinel Chapter 11 trustee ...

State firms in China must carefully manage their books or face a risk of bankruptcy as the government ratchets up its economic tightening, the head of the country's state asset watchdog said Tuesday.

A month after InPhonic Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware has approved of the company's sale to private equity firm Versa Capital Management. (INPC)

Australia-listed Lafayette Mining entered voluntary administration to avoid bankruptcy and give it time to obtain new capital or to sell its troubled Philippine mining business

Jeff Arensdorf thought his company was one of the few Wild West World investors that got paid. At least he thought that until late last week, when attorneys hit Village Charters with the largest preference case to date in Wild West World's bankruptcy. The bankruptcy estate wants the $100,000 that Village Charters got back from longtime customer Thomas Etheredge in April. Attorneys claim Etheredge repaid Arensdorf's company April 9 and April 23 for a January loan. They say that is on or within the time frame established by law for a preference filing, which allows the bankruptcy estate to reclaim that money. "Now, I was pretty sure he'd get that park open," Arensdorf said. "After that, you know, who could be sure? So I set up the loan as a 60-day deal. Felt pretty good about it. We'd had a good four-year relationship with Thomas."

THE Federal Court has asked a court in the British Channel Island of Jersey to help the bankruptcy trustee for the estate of the late Rene Rivkin, who held assets in the tax haven.

Delta Financial Corp., the Woodbury-based subprime mortgage lender, filed for bankruptcy Monday, almost two weeks after announcing it would stop originating loans and file for court protection.