The romance continued Sunday evening between Jackson Walker and Kirkland & Ellis as the bankruptcy duo filed a Chapter 11 corporate restructuring petition on behalf of Houston-based department store chain Stage Stores. The company said in a press release that it will "simultaneously solicit bids" for a sale of the business or any of its assets while it initiates "an orderly wind-down of operations," but that the company will "terminate the wind-down operations at certain locations if it receives a viable going-concern bid." Stage Stores operates department stores Palais Royal, Bealls, Goody's and Peebles as well as Gordmans, the off-price brand that Stage Stores was converting all of its other brand names into and was acquired out of bankruptcy a few years ago. Stage's bankruptcy is the latest in the flurry of retailers that are heading to the courts for corporate reorganization amid the COVID-19 pandemic.