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Key Uniform Commercial Code Financing Statement (UCC-1) Requirements

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The UCC‑1 form is a staple of any secured lending practice. In the wake of the 2022 proposed Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) amendments, which have been adopted in 24 jurisdictions, many jurisdictions have updated their UCC‑1...more

Perkins Coie

Voyager Creditors—Deadline Set for Filing Bankruptcy Proofs of Claim

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Customers and creditors of Voyager Digital Holdings face a deadline to file official “proofs of claim” setting forth the amounts they assert that Voyager owes them. The deadline is 5:00 p.m. ET on October 3, 2022...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Revisiting Bankruptcy Filing Papers

With the expectation that bankruptcy filings will increase over the next few months, this might be a good time to revisit the documents filed with a bankruptcy filing and the information they provide. The focus today is on...more

Morgan Lewis

Germany Makes Substantive Amendments to Insolvency Act Amid COVID-19

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In order to avoid a large number of corporate insolvencies, the German Parliament adopted a law on March 25 to mitigate the consequences of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in civil, insolvency, and criminal procedural...more

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Are Bankruptcy Blocking Provisions in Corporate Governance Documents Enforceable?

It has long been the law that creditors are rarely entitled to contractually prohibit a debtor from filing for bankruptcy, whether such restriction is contained in the debt instruments or in the corporate governance...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

SDNY Bankruptcy Court Reaffirms the Low Bar of the Property Requirement for Filing a Chapter 15 Case

Last year, we discussed a decision by Judge Sean Lane of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York concerning section 109(a) of the Bankruptcy Code. In a recent cross-border case, In re PT...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Bankruptcy Remoteness Going to a Court of Appeals (Progress Report No. 3)

Our February 22 post reported that the Franchise Services of North America, Inc. decision of Bankruptcy Judge Edward Ellington of the Southern District of Mississippi dismissing a Chapter 11 petition because a shareholder had...more

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US Bankruptcy Filing Limitations - How Far Can You Go?

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In order to file for bankruptcy, a corporate entity must be legally authorized to do so. Whether the bankruptcy petition has been duly authorized is governed by state law and often depends on the entity’s governance...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Debt Dialogue: April 2017 - Exemptions from HSR Filing Requirements in a Bankruptcy Reorganization

The Hart-Scott-Rodino Act requires parties to an acquisition of voting securities or assets to file a report form with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ), and to observe a waiting period before...more

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