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Imputation of Agent's Knowledge to Transferee in Bankruptcy Avoidance Litigation Defeats Good-Faith Defense

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In situations where a bankruptcy court avoids a fraudulent transfer or similar transaction, subsequent transferees who received proceeds of the avoided transaction from the initial transferee can avoid liability in certain...more

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Second Circuit Rules Bankruptcy Code’s “Safe Harbor” Provision Preempts State Law Fraudulent Transfer Claims

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On September 19, 2024, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a summary order in which it held that the “safe harbor” provision of Section 546(e) of the Bankruptcy Code preempted a bankruptcy trustee’s state...more

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What Are Fraudulent Transfer Claims and What Defenses Exist to Such Claims? - Creditor’s Rights Toolkit

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A fraudulent transfer is an attempt to avoid a debt by improperly transferring assets to a third party, or a transfer of assets for less than fair value made while the company is insolvent or will become insolvent as a result...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Courts Remain Divided on Whether Avoidance Actions are Estate Property That May be Sold

Nelson Mullins reported on March 25 that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, in Matter of S. Coast Supply Co., 91 F.4th 376 (5th Cir. 2024), held that preference claims arising under 11 U.S.C. § 547 may be sold, reversing the...more

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Fifth Circuit Holds Avoidance Actions Can Be Sold

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Joining the Eighth and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that a debtor or trustee can sell its avoidance actions to third-party, non-estate representatives. See Briar Capital...more

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Complicit Defendants Lose, Sovereign Agency Wins in Eternal Madoff Litigation

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Two recent decisions in the Madoff bankruptcy cases illustrate that the legacy of Bernie Madoff will long survive the man himself. Bernie Madoff died on April 14, 2021, while incarcerated in the Federal Medical Center in...more

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Delaware Bankruptcy Court Rules that Due Diligence Is Element of Preference Claim Rather Than Basis for Affirmative Defense

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A bankruptcy trustee's ability to avoid and recover pre-bankruptcy preferential transfers is essential to preserving or augmenting the estate for the benefit of all stakeholders. In 2019, however, the Bankruptcy Code was...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

A Primer on Avoidance Actions in the Context of Crypto Bankruptcies

In 2022, there were several high-profile crypto bankruptcy filings.  A big question in these cases is whether there will be any money to satisfy unsecured creditor claims.  If there are funds to distribute, then the...more

Miller Canfield

Eleventh Circuit Bolsters Preference Defense by Holding That 503(b)(9) Claims Do Not Reduce the Subsequent New Value Defense

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Preference defense received an important boost this week when the Eleventh Circuit decided that invoices paid under 11 U.S.C. § 503(b)(9) can count as "new value" in defending against preference claims. It is the first...more

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Tribune: Lessons Learned and Relearned

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This is how Tribune ends: not with a bang, but a whimper. The 12-year litigation saga, rooted in the spectacular failure of the media and sports conglomerate’s 2007 leveraged buyout, reached an end in late February with a...more

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Avoiding Avoidance Actions in Bankruptcy

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For most non-bankruptcy attorneys, their first experience in bankruptcy court could very likely begin with a call from an agitated and bewildered client asking for help to understand why they have been sued by a trustee in a...more

Jenner & Block

Recent Developments in Bankruptcy Law, October 2021

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AVOIDING POWERS - Fraudulent Transfers - Trustee may avoid transfer as actual fraudulent transfer only if ultimate decision-maker has fraudulent intent. Before entering into a two-step LBO transaction, the debtor formed...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

New Court Ruling on Whether Avoidance Powers Require Benefit to Creditors

The Bankruptcy Code grants the power to avoid certain transactions to a bankruptcy trustee or debtor-in-possession. See, e.g., 11 U.S.C. §§ 544, 547–48. Is there a general requirement that these avoidance powers only be...more

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Why Avoidance Actions Are Difficult to Dismiss by a Rule 12(b)(6) Motion

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Traditional avoidance actions under the Bankruptcy Code, i.e., preferences and fraudulent transfers, have laudable goals: (a) to provide equal treatment to creditors of an insolvent company and (b) to claw back otherwise...more

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Claims Traders Alert: Another Bankruptcy Court Rules that a Traded Claim Can Be Disallowed if the Seller Received a Voidable...

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The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York recently added some weight to the majority rule on a hot-button issue for claims traders. In In re Firestar Diamond, Inc., 615 B.R. 161 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2020),...more

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Bolstering the Majority Rule: Bankruptcy Court Holds that Adjudication of Avoidance Liability Is Prerequisite to Disallowance of...

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The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina recently added some weight to the majority rule on an issue that has long divided bankruptcy and appellate courts. In In re Southern Produce Distributors,...more

Dechert LLP

Are the Standards Governing Trustee Appointment Different in Chapter 9?

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Yes, says the First Circuit. The First Circuit recently affirmed the District Court’s decision to deny a group of bondholders’ (the “Bondholders”) motion to have a trustee appointed for the Employees Retirement System of the...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Former Tribune Shareholders Still Merit Safe Harbor Upon Revision

We have noodled on the impact that the Supreme Court’s decision in Merit Management Group, LP v. FTI Consulting, Inc., which held that the safe harbor provided in Section 546(e) of the Bankruptcy Code does not apply when the...more

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Second Circuit Paves a Way to Protect LBO Payments from Avoidance Actions 

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The Second Circuit Court of Appeals recently held in In re Tribune Company Fraudulent Conveyance Litigation, No. 13-3992-cv (L) (2d Cir., Dec. 19, 2019) that Bankruptcy Code Section 546(e) barred claims seeking to avoid...more

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First Circuit Holds that Parents' Payment of Tuition for an Adult Child Can Be Avoided as a Fraudulent Transfer: Colleges,...

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Bankruptcy trustees continue to vigorously pursue actions in which they sue colleges, universities and other institutions of higher education to recover tuition payments made by parents for their children when the parents...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Second Circuit Holds Trustee’s Recovery of Fraudulent Transfer Is Not Double Recovery

In Jones v. Brand Law Firm, P.A. (In re Belmonte), Case No. 18-2098-bk (2d Cir. July 25, 2019), the Second Circuit affirmed both the bankruptcy court and district court decisions that found the Trustee was not barred by 11...more

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Decade Old Transactions Potentially Subject to Bankruptcy Clawback in Massachusetts

Transfers and transactions up to ten years old may be scrutinized, unwound and recovered by a trustee, the bankruptcy court sitting in Massachusetts recently held in the NECCO (think chalky wafer candy) bankruptcy case. The...more

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Tribune District Court Rules That LBO Payments May Not Be Avoided Because Debtor Was "Customer" of "Financial Institution"

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In In re Tribune Co. Fraudulent Conveyance Litig., 2019 WL 1771786 (S.D.N.Y. Apr. 23, 2019), the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York denied a litigation trustee’s motion to amend a complaint seeking to...more

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Second Circuit Rules that Bankruptcy Code’s Fraudulent Transfer Recovery Provisions Can Reach Foreign Transferees

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The ability of a bankruptcy trustee to avoid fraudulent or preferential transfers is a fundamental part of U.S. bankruptcy law. However, when an otherwise avoidable transfer by a U.S. entity takes place outside the U.S. to a...more

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Bankruptcy Avoidance Actions Under Section 544(b): State Fraudulent Transfer Statutes and More

Creditors’ recoveries often hinge on claw-back lawsuits that trustees bring under bankruptcy law and non-bankruptcy law. Trustees can file claims based on non-bankruptcy law because Bankruptcy Code section 544(b) allows them...more

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