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Bill on Bankruptcy: The Market's Unquenchable Thirst for Junk [Video]

by Bloomberg Law on 5/22/2013

May 22 (Bloomberg) -- AMF Bowling Worldwide Inc. and Ahern Rentals Inc. are prime examples of the frothy market where junk-bond investors are fearless in the face of risk, as Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia and Bloomberg News...more

Rating Agency Developments - May 20, 2013

by Orrick - Structured Finance Group on 5/20/2013

On May 17, DBRS released its criteria for rating market-linked securities. On May 17, DBRS released a criteria report relating to Canadian bankruptcy and restructuring legal considerations. On May 15, Moody’s released its...more

Corporate and Financial Weekly Digest - May 17, 2013

by Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 5/20/2013

In this issue: - CFTC Adopts Final Rules for Execution Facilities and Other Matters - FINRA Issues Interpretive Guidance on Use of Back Tested Index Data by ETPs - Mississippi District Court Defers to New...more

Bill on Bankruptcy: Lehman Test Case on Judicial Nullification [Video]

by Bloomberg Law on 5/7/2013

May 9 (Bloomberg) -- Although Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is out of bankruptcy a year, the case continues to make law. As Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia and Bloomberg News bankruptcy columnist Bill Rochelle discuss on their...more

Cohen: Cyprus Is Not A Template For Future Restructurings [Video]

by Bloomberg Law on 5/3/2013

May 3 (Bloomberg Law) -- Rodge Cohen, partner at Sullivan & Cromwell, tells Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia why the recent bailout of Cyprus's banking sector was a unique situation and not necessarily a template for dealing with...more

Bill on Bankruptcy: Kodak Plan Bumps the Debt, Craters Stock [Video]

by Bloomberg Law on 5/1/2013

May 2 (Bloomberg Law) -- Eastman Kodak Co. filed a Chapter 11 plan that cratered the stock and bumped up the unsecured notes, although the plan may be revised to pay off second-lien debt fully in cash, as Bloomberg Law's Lee...more

Bill on Bankruptcy: Lawyers Easily Make Simple Words Complicated [Video]

by Bloomberg Law on 4/24/2013

April 24 (Bloomberg) -- With $64 million at stake for creditors of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., lawyers can find complexity even in simple words like "immediately proceeding," as Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia and Bloomberg...more

Narrow Interpretation of "Customer" Under SIPA Is Affirmed by the Second Circuit

by James Vincequerra | Duane Morris LLP on 4/10/2013

On February 22, 2013, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in In re Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC held that certain individuals who had invested indirectly in Bernard L. Madoff Investment...more

Bill on Bankruptcy: Stockton May Win the Battle, Lose the War [Video]

by Bloomberg Law on 4/3/2013

April 2 (Bloomberg Law) -- Although Stockton, California established the right to be in a Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy, the judge warned the city that victory may be short-lived if bondholders prove that pensioners must...more

NFA Chairman Chris Hehmeyer Talks Bankruptcy Reform [Video]

by MarketsReformWiki on 4/2/2013

One of the issues that emerged from the MF Global collapse was the complex and often frustrating US bankruptcy process. In the case of MF Global, futures customers’ claims were lumped in with other creditors. As such, it took...more

Defense to Bankruptcy Preference Actions For Parties Engaged in Securities or Commodities Industry and Those Involved with Forward...

by Letitia Accarrino | Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer P.A. on 3/22/2013

If your company is sued to recover money or property transferred to it by a debtor prior to the filing of its bankruptcy petition, be aware that there is a potentially dispositive defense under Section 546(e) of the...more

Bill on Bankruptcy: Why is Kodak's Stock Soaring? [Video]

by Bloomberg Law on 3/20/2013

March 20 (Bloomberg Law) -- Although Eastman Kodak Co. stock shot up like a rocket in a week's time, investors might not have the same profitable outcome like owners of American Airlines shares, as Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia...more

Bill on Bankruptcy: How Purchasers of AMR Stock Made a Killing [Video]

by Bloomberg Law on 3/13/2013

March 13 (Bloomberg Law) -- Someone who bought stock in American Airlines last year already made a killing. Stock that could have been bought in November for less than 40 cents a share is now trading above $4, for...more

Court Finds Investment Advisor’s Payments to Customers Are Not Exempt From Avoidance Under Section 546(e) of the Bankruptcy Code

by Matthew Kremer | Cadwalader - Financial Restructuring on 3/8/2013

FCStone, a New York-based commodities brokerage firm, was recently ordered to return a transfer of $15.6 million to the bankruptcy estate of Sentinel Management Group. Approximately $1.1 million of this amount constituted a...more

Bill on Bankruptcy: Secret Madoff Agreement May Harm Victims [Video]

by Bloomberg Law on 2/27/2013

Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Money stolen from victims of the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme is earmarked for someone who may have been an accomplice in the fraud, and the agreement is being kept secret by a federal district judge. ...more

Weekly Brief: Courthouse Violence on the Rise [Video]

by Bloomberg Law on 2/14/2013

Feb. 14 (Bloomberg Law) -- Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia runs through the legal news for the week. A recent shooting at a courthouse in Wilmington, Delaware highlights a disturbing rise in violence in and around courts. Mary...more

Bill on Bankruptcy: Rakoff Reverses Himself in Madoff Case [Video]

by Bloomberg Law on 2/13/2013

Feb. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Judges rarely reverse themselves. When U.S. District Jed Rakoff recanted a ruling he made previously in the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities Inc., the reversal was important...more

Rogers Towers: Forward Contracts for Commodities not Avoidable as Preferential Transfers

by Scott St. Amand, J. Ellsworth Summers, Jr. | Rogers Towers on 2/12/2013

Because debtors may avoid certain transfers and contracts entered into during the ninety days before they filed their bankruptcy petition, trade creditors are understandably nervous about entering into contracts with...more

MF Global Judgment Clarifies Law on Client Money Entitlement

by Tim Aron, Edward Black | Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 2/10/2013

A High Court judgment by Mr. Justice Richards handed down on January 29 has confirmed that a client’s open positions on trades, made with a firm regulated by the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) that subsequently enters...more

Bill on Bankruptcy: Delaware to Continue Dominating Bankruptcy [Video]

by Bloomberg Law on 2/6/2013

Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The dominance of Delaware and New York bankruptcy courts is secure for another two years, for reasons Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia and Bloomberg News bankruptcy columnist Bill Rochelle explain on their...more

Legal Alert: Court Rejects Safe Harbor Defenses for Futures Customers

by Cheryl I. Aaron, James M. Cain, Doyle Campbell, Kalaundra Y. Carreathers, Warren N. Davis, Jacob Dweck, Daphne G. Frydman, Meghan R. Gruebner, Alexander S. Holtan, Meltem F. Kodaman, more +Catherine M. Krupka, David T. McIndoe, Raymond A. Ramirez, Mark D. Sherrill, R. Michael Sweeney, Jr. | Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP on 2/1/2013

On January 4, 2013, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued an opinion that strikes a significant blow against the rights of futures customers that might otherwise enjoy the Bankruptcy Code’s safe...more

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Bill on Bankruptcy: The Market's Unquenchable Thirst for Junk [Video]

Rating Agency Developments - May 20, 2013

Corporate and Financial Weekly Digest - May 17, 2013

Bill on Bankruptcy: Lehman Test Case on Judicial Nullification [Video]

Cohen: Cyprus Is Not A Template For Future Restructurings [Video]

Bill on Bankruptcy: Kodak Plan Bumps the Debt, Craters Stock [Video]

Bill on Bankruptcy: Lawyers Easily Make Simple Words Complicated [Video]

Narrow Interpretation of "Customer" Under SIPA Is Affirmed by the Second Circuit

Bill on Bankruptcy: Stockton May Win the Battle, Lose the War [Video]

NFA Chairman Chris Hehmeyer Talks Bankruptcy Reform [Video]

Defense to Bankruptcy Preference Actions For Parties Engaged in Securities or Commodities Industry and Those Involved with Forward...

Bill on Bankruptcy: Why is Kodak's Stock Soaring? [Video]

Bill on Bankruptcy: How Purchasers of AMR Stock Made a Killing [Video]

Court Finds Investment Advisor’s Payments to Customers Are Not Exempt From Avoidance Under Section 546(e) of the Bankruptcy Code

Bill on Bankruptcy: Secret Madoff Agreement May Harm Victims [Video]

Weekly Brief: Courthouse Violence on the Rise [Video]

Bill on Bankruptcy: Rakoff Reverses Himself in Madoff Case [Video]

Rogers Towers: Forward Contracts for Commodities not Avoidable as Preferential Transfers

MF Global Judgment Clarifies Law on Client Money Entitlement

Bill on Bankruptcy: Delaware to Continue Dominating Bankruptcy [Video]

Legal Alert: Court Rejects Safe Harbor Defenses for Futures Customers

Bill on Bankruptcy: Junk Debt Interest Rates at 30-Year Low [Video]

Indemnification Claims Under the CCAA A - Caution for Underwriters, Auditors, Directors and Others

MMF Independent Trustees in Crisis: MMF Executives Sue Independent Trustees for Fraud and Waste of Corporate Assets

Bill on Bankruptcy: AMR Make-Whole Opinion Vulnerable on Appeal [Video]

Bill on Bankruptcy: The Market's Unquenchable Thirst for Junk [Video]

Bill on Bankruptcy: Lehman Test Case on Judicial Nullification [Video]

Cohen: Cyprus Is Not A Template For Future Restructurings [Video]

Bill on Bankruptcy: Kodak Plan Bumps the Debt, Craters Stock [Video]

Bill on Bankruptcy: Lawyers Easily Make Simple Words Complicated [Video]

Bill on Bankruptcy: Stockton May Win the Battle, Lose the War [Video]

NFA Chairman Chris Hehmeyer Talks Bankruptcy Reform [Video]

Bill on Bankruptcy: Why is Kodak's Stock Soaring? [Video]

Bill on Bankruptcy: How Purchasers of AMR Stock Made a Killing [Video]

Bill on Bankruptcy: Secret Madoff Agreement May Harm Victims [Video]

Weekly Brief: Courthouse Violence on the Rise [Video]

Bill on Bankruptcy: Rakoff Reverses Himself in Madoff Case [Video]

Bill on Bankruptcy: Delaware to Continue Dominating Bankruptcy [Video]

Bill on Bankruptcy: Junk Debt Interest Rates at 30-Year Low [Video]

Bill on Bankruptcy: AMR Make-Whole Opinion Vulnerable on Appeal [Video]

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