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Re:Texas electric firm files for bankruptcy citing $1.8B in ... by phire on Monday March 01, 2021 @06:53AM (#26301855)
In the US, there Chapter 11 Bankruptcy (which is restructuring, as you say) and Chapter 7 Bankruptcy which is the liquidation due to insolvency that I describe here.

Where I live, there is no formal equivalent to Chapter 11, and liquidation is colloquially known as Bankruptcy.

While the terms may vary, the accounting and the general laws are reasonably constant world-wide.

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Re:Texas electric firm files for bankruptcy citing $1.8B in ... by enkid on Monday March 01, 2021 @07:13AM (#26301999)
Chapter 11 is a form of bankruptcy that leads to dissolution, but it is not the only way to dissolve an entity. In other words, dissolution can be caused by bankruptcy among many other ways. One of these is paying off all creditors and shareholders. Since this does not require debt restructuring, it would not require bankruptcy.
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