A couple of thoughts: Bopfan is not just any garden variety attorney; her area of specialization is bankruptcy law. Also, the bankruptcy attorney firm/team the caliber of Weil et al. would have filed the motion for the exclusivity extension weeks in advance as a matter of careful rather than careless practice. If the judge denied the motion for any reason whatsoever, the motion would have to be ammended and resubmitted. The absence of the motion to file for extension at this point strongly suggests that they do not need the extension. Also, the fact that a fraudulent conveyance action has not been filed in this matter by this time (four months into the proceedings), by a firm the caliber of the aforementioned, weighs in favor of a settlement construct.