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Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Restructuring Roundup - March 2024

AGG’s Restructuring Roundup newsletter is a monthly update of legal issues and news affecting or related to commercial litigation and bankruptcy. The newsletter is a curation of published articles and news, and contains...more

King & Spalding

Bankruptcy Court Enters Verdict Against Lender Found to Have Caused Borrower’s Demise

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On December 23, 2021, Judge Stacey Jernigan of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a verdict, following a bench trial, in favor of the Chapter 7 trustee of a metal manufacturing business and...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Consensus Builds That Some Private Student Loans Can Be Discharged in Bankruptcy

Last month, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in Homaidan v. Sallie Mae, Inc., 3 F.4th 595 (2d Cir. 2021), affirmed a New York federal court's ruling that private student loans are not explicitly...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

A Reminder for Borrowers: Post-Discharge Communications by Creditor Must Coerce or Harass in Order to Violate Bankruptcy Law

In Kirby v. 21 Mortg. Corp., the First Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel examined the Kirbys' claim that the 19 written communications they received from their mortgage holder following their Chapter 7 discharge violated the...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Bankruptcy Court Finds Arbitration Clause in Consumer Loan Contract to be Sufficient Cause to Grant Relief from Automatic Stay

When a bankruptcy petition is filed, an automatic stay comes into effect staying proceedings against the debtor or the debtor’s property. 11 U.S.C. § 362(a). The stay centralizes litigation regarding the debtor and its...more

Greenberg Glusker LLP

Beware of the ABL Trap: The Challenges of Retail Chapter 11 Debtors and Asset Based Lending

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An asset based loan (“ABL”) is often the financing of choice for retail borrowers – and for good reason. In its simplest form, an ABL is a credit facility, usually in the form of a revolving line of credit, the availability...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

It’s Not Just Actual Fraud: Intent to Hinder, Delay, or Defraud Can Be Present Even with the Best of Intentions

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The Bankruptcy Code contemplates several penalties for transfers made by a debtor with an intent to “hinder, delay, or defraud” creditors. Although most situations focus on an “actual intent to defraud,” the Tenth Circuit...more

Burr & Forman

Eleventh Circuit Affirms That a Debtor’s Surrender in Bankruptcy Means Just That-You Must Surrender

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Burr & Forman lawyers won a significant victory in the Eleventh Circuit earlier this month. In the case In re: David A. Failla, — F.3d — (2016), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed that a person who...more

Carlton Fields

Surrendering Your Property in Bankruptcy Means You Must Actually Surrender It

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The title of this article seems self-evident. Lenders, servicers, and others active in the foreclosure arena these past few years know that it has been anything but. Borrowers surrender property in bankruptcy but,...more

Baker Donelson

New Case Poses Threat to Mortgage Servicers in Bankruptcies

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A new decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit poses a serious threat to mortgage companies that service mortgages of chapter 13 debtors. Mortgage servicers should be aware of the case's implications and...more

Troutman Pepper

Mortgage Acknowledgements: Can A Boo-Boo Be Fixed?

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Bank of America, N.A. v. Casey, 517 B.R. 1 (D. Mass. 2015) – A Chapter 7 trustee sought to avoid a mortgage using “strong-arm” powers based on a defect in the acknowledgement. The mortgagee contended that the defect was...more

Baker Donelson

Florida Court Rules Borrowers Who Surrender Property in Bankruptcy Can't Later Take it Back

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Thanks to several recent United States Bankruptcy Court decisions in Florida, mortgage servicers should now expect borrowers who surrender their real property in bankruptcy to not contest foreclosure later. Since the...more

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