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One Way or Another: Non-U.S. Crypto Customers Will Have to Face Celsius Preference Lawsuits

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Earlier this summer, the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York rejected a challenge to the Litigation Administrator, Moshin Y. Meghji, lawsuits against Celsius Network LLC customers. The challenge was based...more

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What Are Some Less Traditional Defenses to a Preference Action? - Creditor’s Rights Toolkit

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The ordinary course of business, new value, and contemporaneous exchange for new value defenses are the most frequently used defenses in a preference action. However, there are additional, less common defenses that a...more

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Fifth Circuit: Preference Claims Are Property of the Bankruptcy Estate that Can Be Sold

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A debtor's non-exempt assets (and even the debtor's entire business) are commonly sold during the course of a bankruptcy case by the trustee or a chapter 11 debtor-in-possession ("DIP") as a means of augmenting the bankruptcy...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Courts Remain Divided on Whether Avoidance Actions are Estate Property That May be Sold

Nelson Mullins reported on March 25 that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, in Matter of S. Coast Supply Co., 91 F.4th 376 (5th Cir. 2024), held that preference claims arising under 11 U.S.C. § 547 may be sold, reversing the...more

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Bankruptcy Appellate Panel Blocks Cannabis Employee’s Chapter 13 Relief but Rejects Bright-Line Bar of Eligibility to be a Debtor...

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In a March 2024 decision, the U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the First Circuit (the “Panel”) followed existing case law prohibiting debtors in businesses related to cannabis from availing themselves of federal bankruptcy...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Bankruptcy Chapter 11 Subchapter V Debt Eligibility Limit to Decrease to $2.7 million on June 21, 2024

Businesses in financial distress have multiple options to consider when attempting to reorganize or liquidate. A state court receivership or Chapter 7 Bankruptcy are likely options for liquidation when there are significant...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Joining Other Circuits, the Fifth Circuit Reverses Lower Court and Approves Sale of Preferential Transfer Claims to...

The Fifth Circuit recently ruled that a debtor can sell a preferential transfer action under Bankruptcy Code section 363 to a purchaser that is not a representative of the bankruptcy estate. Briar Cap. Working Fund Cap.,...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

In Appreciation of a Pirate

As we turn to a new year, my wife and I like to reminisce about our best days and milestones of the prior year (for 2023, it was a huge celebration with our best friends for my wife’s birthday, an epic bike ride with our kids...more

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Business Restructuring Review July-August 2023 | Vol. 22 No. 4

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There is longstanding controversy concerning the validity of third-party release provisions in non-asbestos trust chapter 11 plans that limit the potential exposure of various nondebtor parties involved in the process of...more

Freeman Law

Bankruptcy Schedules: Schedule C

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This will continue our series on bankruptcy schedules. In a prior blog post, we looked at Schedule A/B.  Today, our focus will be on Schedule C related to the claiming of exemptions. ...more

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Bankruptcy Schedules: Schedule A/B

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This will be the first in a series of blog posts that will focus on completing bankruptcy schedules.  We’ll start in this blog with the first schedule – Schedule A/B. ...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Bankruptcy 101: Bankruptcy Cases, Adversary Proceedings, and Contested Matters - Bankruptcy Basics for New and Non-Bankruptcy...

This entry is part of Nelson Mullins’s ongoing “Bankruptcy Basics” blog series that is intended to address foundational aspects of bankruptcy for new and non-bankruptcy practitioners and professionals. This entry will discuss...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

The Unfair Contradiction of the Conflict of State and Federal Laws on the Bankruptcy Proceedings of Dispensary Employees

There is seemingly, in the opinion of a great number of bankruptcy courts, a conflict between the United States Bankruptcy Code requirements that a debtor reorganize or liquidate “in good faith,”  the federal Controlled...more

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Faulkner v. Broadway Festivals, Inc., Adv. Proc. 20-05031 (Bankr. N.D. – Tex., January 11, 2022)

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Faulkner v. Broadway Festivals, Inc. The recent bankruptcy case for Northern District of Texas, Faulkner v. Broadway Festivals, Inc., Adv. Proc. 20-05031 (Bankr. N.D. – Tex., January 11, 2022), addresses preferential...more

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Set Aside: Australian Creditors Unable to Rely on Statutory Set-Offs to Defend Unfair Preference Claims

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Background - During a winding up, the statutory duty of a liquidator is to gather in the estate of the company, which includes recovering any amounts owing to the company. Creditors then submit proofs of debt and receive...more

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Holland & Knight's China Practice Newsletter: November-December 2021

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Holland & Knight invites you to read our China Practice Newsletter, in which our authors discuss pertinent Sino-American topics - HIGHLIGHTS: Preference Claims Clawbacks in Bankruptcy Can Disrupt a Construction...more

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COVID-19 Pandemic Preference Amendments to Bankruptcy Code Benefiting Vendors, Customers, Commercial Landlords and Tenants

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Over the last three months, Congress has passed major pieces of legislation primarily in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (CAA), which was signed into law on December...more

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Practical strategies to limit preference liability

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Anticipating a surge of bankruptcy filings resulting from COVID-19, it is important for businesses to understand the basic elements of a bankruptcy preference and the defenses available to defeat them. This article provides a...more

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Recent and Upcoming Changes to Bankruptcy Law That Affect Your Rights as a Creditor

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The Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019 ("SBRA"), the Honoring American Veterans in Extreme Need ("HAVEN") Act, and the Family Farmer Relief Act were enacted into law on August 23, 2019. This alert summarizes these...more

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Wisconsin Court of Appeals Enforces Knowledge Requirement for Preference Claims

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Wisconsin’s Chapter 128 has long been something of a “wild west” of insolvency proceedings. Modeled on the provisions of the federal Bankruptcy Act of 1898, the statute empowers a circuit court to appoint a receiver to...more

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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

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Storm Preparation: Dealing With Financially Troubled Companies and Avoiding Clawbacks

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The current state of the U.S. economy is relatively strong. That said, every economy remains subject to the normal ups and downs of the business cycle. Eventually, dark clouds will gather and businesses will be required to...more

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Eleventh Circuit Expands "Subsequent New Value" Preference Defense to Cases Involving Paid-For New Value

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In Kaye v. Blue Bell Creameries, Inc. (In re BFW Liquidation, LLC), 899 F.3d 1178 (11th Cir. 2018), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit broadened the scope of section 547(c)(4) of the Bankruptcy Code’s...more

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Eleventh Circuit Issues Opinion on New Value Defense to a Preference Claim

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• In its recent decision in William S. Kaye, Trustee of the BFW Liquidating Trust v. Blue Bell Creameries, Inc. (In re BFW Liquidation, LLC), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that liability for a...more

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Blue Bell Creameries: Dishing Out a New Value Treat for Preference Defendants

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Trying to explain the primary purpose of Section 547 of the Bankruptcy Code to a client that just received a demand letter or complaint to avoid and recover preferential transfers can be a tough sell. Although the Section’s...more

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