Dura Automotive Systems, headquartered in Rochester Hills

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, Michigan

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, USA was ranked in the 2006 Fortune 1000

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. It is engaged in the business of manufacturing and distribution of automotive components.

Dura filled for chapter 11

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Chapter 11 is a chapter of the United States Bankruptcy Code, which permits reorganization under the bankruptcy laws of the United States. Chapter 11 bankruptcy is available to every business, whether organized as a corporation or sole proprietorship, and to individuals, although it is most...

 bankruptcy protection on October 30, 2006. Final determination to delist Dura's common stock

Common stock

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 and convertible trust preferred securities

Trust-preferred security

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 from NASDAQ was made November 13, 2006.

December 2009 - Dura Automotive Systems Inc. became another Lynn Tilton

Lynn Tilton

Lynn Tilton is an American trader, investor and industrialist.Tilton is Chief Executive Officer and sole principal of Patriarch Partners, LLC and its affiliated entities, a private equity firm managing US$7 billion in assets...

 company and part of a large diversified metal-bending company after its acquisition by the New York private-equity firm Patriarch Partners http://www.patriarchpartners.com.

In the deal, Dura absorbed Global Automotive Systems http://www.globalautosys.com, of suburban Detroit, another Patriarch company, producing a parts supplier with global sales of nearly $2 billion.