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News & Analysis as of May 20, 2013

Supreme Court Holds California’s Survival Statute Inapplicable To Delaware Corporation

by Keith Paul Bishop | Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis... on 2/25/2013

Section 278 of the Delaware General Corporation in effect limits suits against dissolved corporations to a period of three years from dissolution. In contrast, Section 2010 of the California Corporations Code sets no time...more

Supreme Court to Address Circuit Split Over 'Defalcation' Meaning

by Duane Morris LLP on 11/26/2012

Originally published in The Legal Intelligencer on November 16, 2012. In a corporate system based in part on the separation of ownership and control, the relationship between principals and agents is riddled with agency...more

Asbestos Alert: Corporations Formed Other than in California Which Have Dissolved May Be Able to Win Summary Judgment in...

by Low, Ball & Lynch on 9/26/2012

Robinson v. SSW, Inc. California Court of Appeal, First District (September 21, 2012) Douglas Robinson died from mesothelioma and his family filed a wrongful death action. SSW, Inc., a Nebraska corporation, sought...more

Seventh Circuit Disagrees with Third on Selling Collateral Without Credit Bidding in a Cramdown: Rule of Philly Papers Rejected

by Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP on 8/15/2011

The Bankruptcy Code provides that a Chapter 11 plan of reorganization may be confirmed over the opposition of a class of secured creditors whose secured claims are not being paid in full only if it provides one of the...more

Chapter 15 Emerging Trends: Creditors' Rights, Multinational Groups

by Selinda A Melnik on 2/1/2011

US Bankruptcy Code Chapter 15, which incorporates the United Nations Model Cross-Border Insolvency Law, became effective October 2005. Designed to assist non-US proceedings in need of enforcement within the United States,...more

Insolvenzrecht - Neues Gesetz bezüglich der Fortführung von Unternehmen in Zahlungsschwierigkeiten.pdf

by Kocks & Partners Rechtsanwälte Belgien on 3/31/2009

Mit dem neuen Gesetz vom 31. Januar 2009 über die Kontinuität von Unternehmen soll Unternehmen, die sich in Zahlungsschwierigkeiten befinden, die Möglichkeit gegeben werden, ihre Zahlungsprobleme zu überwinden. Bisher...more