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Ballard Spahr LLP

Supreme Court: No Strong-Arming the Federal Government With State-Law Fraudulent Transfer Claims

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Recently, in the case United States v. Miller, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the sovereign immunity waiver provision in the Bankruptcy Code is jurisdictional only and does not waive the federal government’s sovereign...more

Jones Day

Tenth Circuit: Bankruptcy Trustee May Recover Only the Actual Property (Not Proceeds) Fraudulently Transferred to Subsequent...

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The ability of a bankruptcy trustee to avoid certain transfers of a debtor's property and to recover the property or its value from the transferees is an essential tool in maximizing the value of a bankruptcy estate for the...more

Ward and Smith, P.A.

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

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

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

Cooley LLP

Blog: The Ninth Circuit Rejects the “Dominion and Control Test” for Determining the Initial Transferee in Fraudulent Conveyance...

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Under section 550(a) of the Bankruptcy Code, a trustee or debtor in possession may recover property (or its value) that has been fraudulently transferred “from the initial transferee or the entity for whose benefit the...more

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