Case number: 2:24-bk-20079 - Ben's Creek Operations WV LLC and Ben's Creek Carbon LLC - West Virginia Southern Bankruptcy Court

Case Information
  • Case title

    Ben's Creek Operations WV LLC and Ben's Creek Carbon LLC

  • Court

    West Virginia Southern (wvsbke)

  • Chapter

    7

  • Judge

    David L. Bissett

  • Filed

    04/14/2024

  • Last Filing

    11/22/2024

  • Asset

    No

  • Vol

    v

Docket Header
ASSIGNED, DsclsDue, PlnDue, VENUE-CHAS, CORP/PTNR, JNTADMN, JointAdm-Lead, MTGHELD, CONVERTED



U.S. Bankruptcy Court
Southern District of West Virginia (Charleston)
Bankruptcy Petition #: 2:24-bk-20079

Assigned to: David L. Bissett
Chapter 7
Previous chapter 11
Original chapter 11
Voluntary
No asset


Date filed:  04/14/2024
Date converted:  11/06/2024
341 meeting:  12/20/2024
Deadline for filing claims (govt.):  05/05/2025
Deadline for objecting to discharge:  07/29/2024

Debtor

Ben's Creek Operations WV LLC

109 Capitol Street, Suite 1000
Charleston, WV 25301
KANAWHA-WV
Tax ID / EIN: 81-3932086

represented by
Chris Brumley

Flaherty Sensabaugh Bonasso PPLC
200 Capitol Street
Charleston, WV 25301
304-345-0200
Email: cbrumley@flahertylegal.com

David Hoyer

Hoyer, Hoyer & Smith, PLLC
22 Capitol Street
Charleston, WV 25301
304-344-9821
Email: david@hhsmlaw.com

Elizabeth King

Flaherty Sensabaugh Bonasso PPLC
200 Capitol Street
Charleston, WV 25301
304-345-0200
Fax : 304-345-0260
Email: eking@flahertylegal.com

James W. Lane, Jr.

Flaherty Sensabaugh Bonasso
200 Capital Street
PO Box 3843
Charleston, WV 25301
(304) 205-6373
Fax : (304) 345-0260
Email: jlane@flahertylegal.com

Debtor

Ben's Creek Land WV LLC

109 Capitol Street, Suite 1000
Charleston, WV 25301
KANAWHA-WV
Tax ID / EIN: 81-3931866

represented by
Chris Brumley

(See above for address)

Elizabeth King

(See above for address)

James W. Lane, Jr.

(See above for address)

Debtor

Ben's Creek Carbon LLC

109 Capitol Street, Suite 1000
Charleston, WV 25301
KANAWHA-WV
Tax ID / EIN: 85-3471360

represented by
Chris Brumley

(See above for address)

Elizabeth King

(See above for address)

James W. Lane, Jr.

(See above for address)

Trustee

Robert L. Johns

Turner & Johns, PLLC
808 Greenbrier Street
Charleston, WV 25311
(304) 720-2300

 
 
U.S. Trustee

United States Trustee

2025 Robert C. Byrd U.S. Courthouse
300 Virginia Street, East
Charleston, WV 25301
(304) 347-3400

represented by
Shari Collias

United States Trustees Office
300 Virginia Street East
Charleston, WV 25301
Email: Shari.Collias@usdoj.gov

Gary O. Kinder

U.S. Trustee's Office
300 Virginia Street East
Room 2025
Charleston, WV 25301
Email: gary.o.kinder@usdoj.gov

Creditor Committee

Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors

c/o Whiteford, Taylor & Preston LLP
Brandy M. Rapp
10 S. Jefferson Street
Suite 1110
Roanoke, VA 24011
540-759-3577
represented by
Jennie Ovrom Ferretti

George & Lorensen, PLLC
1526 Kanawha Blvd., East
Charleston, WV 253111
304-343-5555
Fax : 304-342-2513
Email: jferretti@gandllaw.com

Shawn P. George

George Law Group PLLC
1526 Kanawha Blvd. E.
Charleston, WV 25311
304-343-5555
Fax : 304-342-2513
Email: sgeorge@gandllaw.com

George Law Group, PLLC


Brandy M Rapp

Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP
10 S. Jefferson Street
Suite 1110
Roanoke, VA 24011
540-759-3577
Fax : 540-759-3567
Email: brapp@whitefordlaw.com

Michael J. Roeschenthaler

Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP
500 Grant St
Ste 2900
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
415-515-1422
Fax : 412-726-4909
Email: KMcCauley@wtplaw.com
TERMINATED: 07/01/2024

Joshua D. Stiff

Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP
1021 E. Cary Street, Suite 1700
Richmond, VA 23219
8047626870
Fax : 7572719736
Email: jstiff@whitefordlaw.com

Whiteford, Taylor & Preston

10 S. Jefferson Street, Suite 1110
Roanoke, VA 24011

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