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Texas two-steps

Texas two-steps is the plural of Texas two-step.

Meaning of Texas two-step

Noun

Texas two-step (plural Texas two-steps)

  1. A two-step bankruptcy strategy under US bankruptcy law in which a solvent parent company spins-off liabilities into a new company, and then has that new company declare bankruptcy.
    • This is called the “Texas two-step.” In its extreme form it sounds like very bad cheating: You can’t really put all the liabilities and none of the money in the box; that is just a way to defraud victims, and surely they’d find a way to do something about it. But a milder form of the Texas Two-Step...Levin, Matt (1 February 2023), “Johnson & Johnson’s Bankruptcy Didn’t Work”, in Money Stuff, Bloomberg

Questions about Texas two-steps

What is Texas two-steps the plural of?
Texas two-steps is the plural of Texas two-step.

Words near Texas two-steps in the dictionary

  1. Texas tower
  2. Texas towers
  3. Texas Triangle
  4. Texas trinity
  5. Texas two-step
  6. Texas two-steps
  7. Texas umbrella tree
  8. Texas umbrella trees
  9. Texas wedge
  10. Texas wedges
  11. Texas-sized

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