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On March 12, 2025, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware denied four banks’ motion for summary judgment in an action seeking to claw back $35 million in fees associated with a $1.8 billion loan that allegedly...more
On March 27, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York largely denied a motion to dismiss fraudulent transfer and tortious interference claims arising out of a dispute over the financing and...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
Fraudulent Transfer Act Allan v. Allan, 8th Dist. Cuyahoga Nos. 110177, 110179, 2022-Ohio-1488- In this appeal, the Eighth Appellate District reversed the trial court’s decision under the Fraudulent Transfer Act case to...more
Real Property Update - Fraudulent Transfer: Real property that was worth less than mortgage encumbering it was not an asset per the plain language of section 726.102(2) and, therefore, could not support fraudulent transfer...more
You open the paper to discover that a “new business”- NewCo has opened at the same location as a current borrower (OldCo). Upon further investigation, you drive by the former business location of OldCo and there is different...more
The Seventh Circuit (which covers Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin) appears to have added a new and potentially conflicting standard in analyzing a third-party transferee’s “good faith” defense to a fraudulent transfer...more
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that a lender is obligated to conduct a diligent investigation when it becomes aware of suspicious facts relating to the legitimacy of a loan transaction. In Sentinel...more