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Vanderbilt Minerals is in a post-sale Chapter 11 wind-down focused on residual lease and talc-defense insurance administration: it has moved to extend the decision period for its remaining Baltimore office lease through November 25, while separately seeking stay relief to permit insurers to fund specified prepetition talc-defense costs. The lease request states that six of the seven leases covered by the prior extension were assumed and assigned to the purchaser in the debtor's substantially all-assets sale, leaving one lease to be resolved; both the lease motion and the insurance-payment motion are set for August 19, 2026, with objections due August 12. second lease-extension motion Dkt. 841 insurance-payment motion Dkt. 839 The debtor filed Chapter 11 on February 16, 2026, after asbestos-related talc litigation inherited from its predecessor produced mounting defense and indemnity costs, a large pending-case inventory, and adverse verdict exposure. Its chief restructuring officer described an asset-marketing process begun in August 2025 and concluded that an out-of-court solution was not feasible, setting a Section 363 sale of substantially all assets as the restructuring path. first-day declaration Dkt. 3 Early…

Updated Aug 9, 2026