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Fifth Circuit: Preference Claims Are Property of the Bankruptcy Estate that Can Be Sold

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A debtor's non-exempt assets (and even the debtor's entire business) are commonly sold during the course of a bankruptcy case by the trustee or a chapter 11 debtor-in-possession ("DIP") as a means of augmenting the bankruptcy...more

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Fifth Circuit Determines that Raymond James Is Subject to Bankruptcy Trust Litigation and Affirmative Defenses Are Not Available

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Louisiana Pellets, Inc. and German Pellets Louisiana, LLC filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2016. The bankruptcy court confirmed the debtors’ plan in 2017, which established a liquidating trust for the debtors’ remaining...more

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Court Holds a Market-Tested Transaction Is Not a Fraudulent Transfer

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On June 14, 2023, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware entered judgment for the defendants, the former owners of Samson Investment Company (the “SIC”), in a fraudulent transfer action brought by...more

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Liquidating Chapter 11 Plan Confirmed Despite Provision Temporarily Enjoining Litigation Against Corporate Debtors

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To prevent "trafficking in corporate shells," the Bankruptcy Code prohibits any discharge of corporate or partnership debts if the debtor is not an "individual" and, in a chapter 11 case, if the debtor proposes a liquidating...more

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Delaware Bankruptcy Court Latest to Determine that Refund of Excess Quarterly US Trustee Fee Payments is Appropriate

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The Fox Rothschild In Solvency blog previously covered the Supreme Court’s decision in Siegel v. Fitzgerald, 142 S. Ct. 1770 (2022), in which the 2017 amendment to 28 U.S.C. § 1930(a)(6) increasing quarterly fees payable to...more

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Do Liquidating Trusts Have to Pay Quarterly US Trustee Fees?

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In a 2021 opinion in In re Paragon Offshore PLC, 629 B.R. 227 (Bankr. D. Del. 2021) (“Paragon Offshore”), Judge Sontchi of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware held that a litigation trust created...more

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Court Says Creditor Can Sue a Liquidating Trustee without Prior Permission

A bankruptcy court ruled that a creditor didn’t need to seek derivative standing to sue a liquidating trustee.  The creditor, himself a trustee of the debtor’s employee stock-option plan, had standing to sue without prior...more

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Court Pulls Carpet Out from Under Trustee’s Preference Claim

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The Eleventh Circuit sided with the Third Circuit in finding that a creditor’s administrative claim under 11 U.S.C. § 503(b)(9) does not offset its new value defense pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 547(c)(4). Auriga Polymers Inc. v....more

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Exculpation Ruling Shows Danger Of Overbroad Clauses

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It is common that accountants seek to limit their liability to a client in the event of malpractice. Typically, in the retention agreement, the liability is limited to the amount of fees paid by the client to the accounting...more

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Critical Vendor Order Insufficient To Protect Critical Vendors Against Preference Claims

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In a recent post, our own Harriet Wallace observed a truism in a recent ruling by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware in the chapter 7 iteration of the infamous Jevic case—the wording of an order...more

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What Do You Get When You Cross a $137,000 Cartier Necklace and a Debtor With Selective Amnesia? A Chapter 11 Trustee.

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When a debtor files bankruptcy under Chapter 11, the bankruptcy court does not automatically appoint a trustee. Unlike Chapter 7, where the court appoints a trustee to investigate the debtor's assets, liquidate assets, and...more

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Delaware Court Precludes Creditors of Limited Partnership From Pursuing Derivative Claims

In several cases since the seminal 2011 Delaware Supreme Court decision CML V LLC v. Bax, which held that creditors of Delaware LLCs lack standing to pursue derivative claims, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of...more

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Second Circuit Allows Avoidance Actions Against Foreign Transferees in Madoff Proceeding

On February 25, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated the bankruptcy court’s dismissal of avoidance actions brought by Irving Picard, the trustee (Trustee) for the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff...more

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