Between Sunday, October 25 and Saturday, October 31, 2026, Research Suite recorded 65 docket entries classified as asset sale activity in 24 chapter 11 cases that reported $100 million or more in assets at filing. The cases sit in nine courts, eight of the 24 cases in the Southern District of Texas alone, and range from DISH DBS Corporation ($8.4 billion in assets at filing) to a 192-acre agricultural parcel sold out of the Santa Paula Hay & Grain case in the Central District of California.

Two new processes for substantially all of a debtor's assets entered the market. One more was rebuilt from the ground up.

The distribution of activity was uneven. Salad and Go alone produced 12 of the 65 entries, most of them tied to a single emergency motion against a buyer that stopped performing. Remove that case and the median case generated two sale entries for the week.

Source: Research Suite by Stretto docket classification (topic "Non-Ordinary Course Transactions: Asset Sale"), cases with $100M+ assets at filing, filing dates Oct. 25 to Oct. 31, 2026.

Six days after filing in the Eastern District of Virginia, RiverStreet Communications of Virginia and its affiliates moved on October 27 for bid procedures and approval of a sale of substantially all of their assets (Dkt. 85). The stalking horse is OCM RiverStreet Holdings, LLC, an entity formed by Oaktree Capital Management, under an asset purchase agreement dated October 20, 2026. The business is a rural fiber broadband and voice network serving roughly 31,600 subscribers, predominantly in Virginia and North Carolina, and the debtors reported $170 million in assets at filing.

The marketing record behind the bid is detailed. Guggenheim Securities began a dual-track process in May 2026, soliciting both sale bids and bids for an exit term loan that would finance a standalone reorganization. It contacted 128 parties; 66 signed NDAs; seven submitted indications of interest, split between two financing term sheets and five sale proposals. The motion states that a sale bid would become the stalking horse only if it beat the best exit financing alternative, and that the debtors negotiated a materially higher price than Oaktree first offered.

Source: RiverStreet Communications of Virginia, Inc., No. 26-72823 (Bankr. E.D. Va.), Dkt. 85 at 2, 5, 11, 12, 15. The $97.3 million figure is computed from the motion's minimum overbid formula using the capped reimbursement.

The bid protections sit at the market's upper end in one respect. The 3% break-up fee and the $1.5 million reimbursement cap are paid ahead of DIP obligations and prepetition facility obligations from the proceeds of any alternative transaction, subject only to the carve-out. No fee is payable if Oaktree terminates while regulatory approvals remain outstanding.

The schedule is driven by DIP milestones requiring a bid procedures order within 30 days of the petition date and a sale hearing within 60 days.

Source: Dkt. 85 at 7 (proposed dates; the debtors may extend after consultation).

The largest case on this week's list produced a single sale entry, and it changed the shape of the process. On October 29, the special committee of independent managers of DISH Wireless L.L.C. filed a revised proposed bidding procedures order in the DISH DBS Corporation cases pending before the Southern District of Texas (Dkt. 1848). The original motion (Dkt. 15) had asked for authority to enter into a stalking horse agreement with EchoStar Corporation, the DISH Wireless debtors' corporate parent. The revised order recites that the DISH Wireless debtors terminated the EchoStar stalking horse agreement and withdrew their request to approve it, and that with that withdrawal all formal and informal objections to the motion were withdrawn, resolved or overruled.

The notice describes the revised order as consensual between the special committee and the official committee of unsecured creditors. A related-party stalking horse in a case of this size was always going to draw scrutiny, and the creditors' committee's sign-off on a process without one is the clearest signal in the filing about where the objections had been coming from.

The revised procedures run two parallel tracks with staggered deadlines, one for network assets and one for intellectual property assets, and leave room for a stalking horse to be designated later in each.

Source: DISH DBS Corporation, No. 26-90627 (Bankr. S.D. Tex.), Dkt. 1848, Ex. A at 4. Proposed order; not entered as of October 31, 2026.

On October 27, the Middle District of Florida granted Trajector Holdings' expedited motion for bidding procedures covering substantially all of its assets, with terms and conditions stated on the record (Dkt. 354, hearing memo; motion at Dkt. 340). Trajector, a disability benefits and medical evidence services company, reported $405 million in assets at filing in July 2026. The appearance list at the hearing included Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, the U.S. Trustee, the creditors' committee, the National Association of Attorneys General and the Minnesota Attorney General, a roster that reflects the consumer-facing character of the assets.

The motion discloses that no purchaser had been identified and no stalking horse agreement signed. It reserves the right to designate one with a break-up fee of up to 2% of the cash bid and expense reimbursement capped at $250,000, and bars insiders and credit-bidding secured creditors from receiving those protections. The 2% ceiling is a full percentage point below the fee Oaktree negotiated at RiverStreet the same week.

Source: Trajector Holdings, LLC, No. 26-03286 (Bankr. M.D. Fla.), Dkt. 340 at 3 to 4. Dates are as proposed in the motion; the court approved the procedures with terms stated on the record.

Five large cases obtained court authority for a sale or a sale amendment during the week. In the SIMAD and DAMIS cases, the parties executed the definitive agreement four days after the court approved the sale from the bench.

Source: Research Suite by Stretto, docket entries as linked. Assets are as reported at filing.

Omnicare's amendments repay a close reading. The October 23 supplement (Dkt. 1374) describes three changes negotiated with the buyer. The buyer will distribute approximately $1.4 million in accrued long-term incentive plan compensation to eligible employees at closing, in exchange for a matching credit against the purchase price; the LTI awards would otherwise have vested on March 31, 2027, after the expected closing. The buyer will increase the price by the cost of extra drug inventory the debtors buy ahead of closing to keep patient service uninterrupted. And the outside closing date moves from November 23 to November 30, 2026, which the supplement attributes to the operational difficulty of closing in a holiday week. The same October 27 emergency hearing took up a third amendment to the DIP credit agreement.

Several cases reported transactions crossing the finish line. GoldenPeaks Poland Holding Limited (Southern District of Texas, $2.0 billion in assets at filing) filed notice on October 27 of a partial closing and the resulting dismissal of the chapter 11 cases of certain initial acquired companies, under its confirmed plan (Dkt. 891). BFG Supply Co. (District of Delaware) filed a notice of closing of sales tied to eight prior sale orders on October 26, after withdrawing and refiling an earlier version the same day (Dkt. 401). Salad and Go noticed the closing of its bulk sale and a supplemental cure claims bar date on October 29 (Dkt. 654).

Post-confirmation and post-effective date sales also continued. The plan administrator in Del Monte Foods (District of New Jersey) filed a certification of no objection and an amended proposed order on a free-and-clear sale motion on October 27. US Magnesium (District of Delaware) filed a revised proposed order on October 30 approving the sale of the post-effective date debtor's assets, following a stalking horse APA revision and an October 26 hearing at which the USM Liquidating Trust had pressed a limited objection (Dkt. 1236). In First Brands Group, the wind-down administrator noticed a proposed order for the sale of certain Eagle Machining, LLC assets to Ventures in Space Fayette, Ltd. (Dkt. 4015). Santa Paula Hay & Grain filed a Rule 6004(f)(1) report of sale for 192 acres of agricultural land in Delano, California (Dkt. 804).

On October 16, the Southern District of Texas approved the sale of two Arizona locations to Swig Stores, LLC: Store No. 1124 at 777 W. Indian School Road in Phoenix for $700,000 and Store No. 1127 at 3229 S. 48th Street in Tempe for $780,000. The order found Swig's offer highest or otherwise best and directed both sides to use reasonable best efforts to close. On October 27, the debtors filed an emergency motion to enforce the order and compel Swig to close (Dkt. 647).

According to the motion, no closing condition has failed, no landlord objection is pending and the debtors are not in default. Swig relies on section 1.6(a) of its APA, which lets the buyer drop a previously designated contract from the assumed contract schedule up to three days before closing. The debtors characterize that provision as a contract-schedule and cure-cost mechanism that says nothing about sites, purchased assets or price. Swig objected on October 29 (Dkt. 657); the debtors' witness list attached a Dutch Bros Coffee APA, Swig's letter of intent and the stalking horse selection notice. At a ten-minute hearing on October 30, the court continued the motion to November 6, 2026 (Dkt. 663).

Source: And Go Concepts, LLC, No. 26-90753 (Bankr. S.D. Tex.), Dkt. 647 at 2; Dkt. 663.

The dispute turns on a drafting question every lease-by-lease restaurant sale faces. When a buyer's contract designation rights are broad and the purchased assets are, in practice, the leases themselves, the right to remove a lease from the schedule can operate as a right to walk away from a store.

Salad and Go was one of six large cases where the week's sale activity involved litigating a transaction that had already been approved or closed. The mix of movants is telling: buyers seeking protection under their sale orders, a debtor seeking performance from a buyer, an escrow administrator, and franchisees pressing a purchaser.

Source: Research Suite by Stretto, docket entries as linked.

The FAT Brands motion is the most developed of these. Filed in June 2026 by four franchisee entities, it has consumed hearing days on October 21, October 26 and October 30, with expert testimony, FBG Bid Co appearing as purchaser, and well over 150 exhibits admitted across the sessions. A short concluding hearing is set for November 6.

The remaining activity concentrated in real estate and holding company cases, where sales move parcel by parcel and objections come from lenders and counterparties rather than committees.

In the jointly managed SIMAD and DAMIS cases (District of New Jersey), TruNorth Bank and an individual creditor each filed limited objections on October 26 to the designation of Barone Ventures LLC as stalking horse for the 12 Cambridge Realty and 12 Cambridge Leasing assets (DAMIS Dkt. 1492). The same day, the court heard the motion applying the SIMAD bidding procedures order to the DAMIS debtors, with an order to be submitted. In Signal National LLC, the 777 Partners case in the Northern District of Texas, a group of lenders including Advantage Capital Holdings and Haymarket Insurance Company objected on October 28 to the debtors' motion to sell a Miami condominium, after the creditors' committee reserved its rights (Dkt. 419).

Two cases recorded further delay. The hearing on Via Mizner Owner II's motion to sell all of its assets free and clear (Southern District of Florida, $450 million in assets at filing) was continued for a sixth time, to November 17, 2026 (Dkt. 240). In Supor Properties Enterprises (District of New Jersey), a creditor's motion to assign credit bid rights and compel the sale of the 600 Guyon Drive property in Harrison, New Jersey to Block G Partners Urban Renewal LLC was rescheduled to November 24 after a clerk's correction notice (Dkt. 592). F-Star Socorro's clawback guaranty dispute was continued to November 5.

The week's filings set or reset the following sale dates in large cases. Proposed dates remain subject to court approval and to extension by the debtors.

Source: Research Suite by Stretto. Assets at filing as recorded in Research Suite case data. Entries counts include de minimis notices, hearing minutes and other entries classified to the asset sale topic.