Business bankruptcy filings across the U.S.
Chapter 11, Subchapter V, Chapter 7 and Chapter 15 petitions filed by companies in the federal bankruptcy courts — lifted from the courts' public docket feeds, with consumer cases left out.
Reorganize or liquidate?
Week-by-week split of business petitions between Chapter 11, its small-business Subchapter V track, Chapter 7 and cross-border Chapter 15.
Petitions per week, by chapter
Reorganizations outnumber liquidations 1.1 to 1 across the window (815 Chapter 11 vs. 745 Chapter 7 lead cases). Subchapter V elections flagged on the docket so far: 266 — the flag appears once the court feed shows a Subchapter V entry, so recent weeks fill in over time.
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State ranking
By month of filing
Showing the 400 most recent lead cases. State pages and chapter pages hold the complete lists.
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A docket watch for business bankruptcies
Every U.S. bankruptcy starts with a petition filed in one of the federal bankruptcy courts. The moment it is docketed, the automatic stay freezes lawsuits and collection, and the case number becomes the reference for every motion, claim and order that follows. This site lifts the company petitions out of the daily flood of consumer cases and lines them up by chapter, state and petition date.
The chapters you will see
Chapter 11 — reorganization, debtor-in-possession keeps operating · Subchapter V — streamlined Chapter 11 for small businesses · Chapter 7 — liquidation by a trustee · Chapter 15 — recognition of a foreign insolvency case · Chapter 12 — family farms and fisheries · Chapter 9 — municipalities.
Venue is not headquarters
Large debtors pick their court. A retailer based in Ohio may file in Houston or Newark because an affiliate is organized there, so the state column tells you where the case is pending — not necessarily where the company does business.
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Questions readers ask
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Where petitions are pending
One pin per lead case, placed inside the state whose bankruptcy court holds the docket. Pick a state chip to zoom in; the pins respect the table filters.
Pins are state-level approximations, not addresses · Tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors · Case data: U.S. Bankruptcy Courts via PACER RSS and CourtListener