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Mayer Brown

Section 363 Sales Considerations

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Distressed entities seeking to sell assets often encounter commercial and legal challenges related to existing claims or resistant constituents. One possible solution to those challenges is to sell assets in bankruptcy...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

5 Issues to Consider When Liquidating Through an ABC

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Assignments for the benefit of creditors, or ABCs, continue to grow in popularity as a tool for the orderly wind-down of companies. Originally published in Law360 - March 21, 2024....more

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Fla. Bankruptcy Ruling Is Cautionary Tale for Debt Collectors

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In the case of In re: McIntosh, a debt purchaser’s assertion that it was entitled to enforce a debt not correctly listed on the debtor’s bankruptcy schedules was met with significant pushback from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court...more

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Courts Remain Uncertain on How to Apply the New Due Diligence Requirement for Preference Claims

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The Bankruptcy Code and its predecessor statutes have long permitted bankruptcy trustees (or their equivalents) to claw back preferences, which involve transfers made on preexisting debts within 90 days (or 1 year, if made to...more

Jenner & Block

Recent Developments in Bankruptcy Law Update - July 2022

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Covered Activities - 1.1.a Order granting counterclaim declaring validity of mortgage on the debtor’s property does not violate the stay. The debtor acquired property subject to a disputed mortgage. The debtor brought a...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

Revisions to Bankruptcy Code Spell Good News for Creditors

It is bad enough when a customer or borrower files for bankruptcy and you have to write off the debt, but things can get worse when you are then faced with a lawsuit to recover payments made within the 90 days prior to the...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Three New Bankruptcy Amendments Become Law

On August 23, 2019, the President of the United States of America signed three new bankruptcy amendments into law.  The first bill, H.R. 3311, ratifies The Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019, creating a new option for...more

Cozen O'Connor

Third Circuit Affirms Bad Faith Involuntary Bankruptcy Dismissal, Increasing Risk of Punitive Damages

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Last week’s decision by the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in In re: Forever Green Athletic Fields, Inc., No. 14-3906 (3d Cir. Oct. 16, 2015) held that an involuntary bankruptcy petition filed under 11 U.S.C. §...more

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