January 2021

Wardman Hotel Owner LLC (“Wardman” or “Debtor”) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on January 11, 2021, ending its management contract with Marriott International. The Chapter 11 petition was filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

The Wardman Park, one of the largest hotels in Washington, D.C. with 1,152 rooms, opened in

The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (“CAA”) was signed into law on December 27, 2020.  As mentioned in this prior post, the CAA contains many amendments to the Bankruptcy Code which impacts creditors and other interested parties to a bankruptcy proceeding.

One such amendment impacts section 366 of the Bankruptcy Code.  Under Section 366 of