Texaco Inc.

1987

$35 billion in pre-filing assets

The oil company filed for bankruptcy protection after a court said it owed Pennzoil $10.5 billion in damages stemming from an earlier merger agreement. Texaco eventually paid Pennzoil $3 billion, emerged from bankruptcy after 361 days and later became part of Chevron.

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