During today’s hearing for bankrupt wood-pellet producer Enviva, the temperature rose drastically when proposed debtors’ counsel, Vinson & Elkins’ David Meyer, said he was outright “offended” and “rather mad” at the US Trustee’s objection to the V&E retention application.

V&E is the latest proposed debtors’ counsel to find itself mired in a hard-fought retention battle. This comes immediately following Kirkland & Ellis’ retention fight Tuesday 7 May in Invitae, discussed here. The Enviva docket is here.