On March 14, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York denied a motion by Citibank, N.A. for leave to file an interlocutory appeal of a bankruptcy court’s order denying a motion to dismiss fraudulent...more
On September 11, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida denied Deutsche Bank’s request for a new trial and required the bank to pay pre-judgment interest following a verdict handed down in April...more
On June 1, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York held, after a bench trial, that various loans that included a floating-price conversion option were not criminally usurious under New York law....more
On March 23, 2023, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida partially denied summary judgment to Deutsche Bank on, among others, claims for aiding and abetting conversion and breach of fiduciary duty,...more
On October 12, 2022, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York denied motions to dismiss fraudulent transfer claims asserted against certain investors in Tops Holding II Corporation. In 2007, a group of...more
On June 21, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri denied a motion to dismiss a fraudulent transfer claim asserted by the borrower’s lender against the borrower’s principals’ lender. Plaintiff...more
On June 29, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon dismissed a bakery’s breach-of-fiduciary duty and other lender-based claims against a strategic investor and lender. In connection with an attempted...more
On April 29, 2022, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey avoided a debtor’s $2 million loan obligation and returned $592,875.03 in repayments on that loan—with pre- and post-judgment interest—to the...more
On December 22, 2021, a New York trial court dismissed a guarantor’s lender liability claims for lack of standing. Gerald Katzoff, the manager and co-owner of restaurant group Il Mulino, was a guarantor under a credit...more