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The Humble LLC Exculpation Clause Wins Big: Member/CEO Escapes $8M Fiduciary Claims

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It’s difficult to assess the potency of section 417(a) of New York’s LLC law.  The provision starts off with a seemingly broad rule: “The operating agreement may set forth a provision eliminating or limiting the personal...more

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Eighth Circuit Reverses Jury Verdict For Aiding And Abetting Ponzi Scheme, Holding That In Pari Delicto Defense Barred Bankruptcy...

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On September 12, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed a trial court decision that had rejected a bank’s assertion of the in pari delicto defense to aiding and abetting claims brought by the...more

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Aiding and Abetting Breach of Fiduciary Duty Claims Against Lender Survive Motion to Dismiss

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On April 26, 2023, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware denied in part and granted in part motions to dismiss a chapter 7 trustee’s breach of fiduciary duty and aiding and abetting claims. The defendants...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Delaware Court Finds Texas’s Trust Fund Doctrine Lives, but Debtor’s Fiduciary Claims Dead on Arrival

A Delaware bankruptcy court recently held that Texas’s “trust fund doctrine” remains applicable for companies that have not availed themselves of Texas’s formal dissolution process.  Nonetheless, fiduciary claims by a...more

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Stay Extended to Bar Litigation Against Chapter 15 Foreign Representatives but No Ruling on Extraterritoriality of Barton Doctrine

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In McKillen v. Wallace (In re Irish Bank Resolution Corp. Ltd.), 2019 WL 4740249 (D. Del. Sept. 27, 2019), the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware had an opportunity to consider, as an apparent matter of first...more

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Bankruptcy Court Finds Committee Member To Have Breached Her Fiduciary Duty To Unsecured Creditors

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On November 15, 2019, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California (the “Court”) issued an opinion in the case of Naylor v. Farrell (In re Farrell), Ch. 7 Case No. 14-11729-MW, Adv. No. 16-01123 (Bankr....more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Delaware Court Precludes Creditors of Limited Partnership From Pursuing Derivative Claims

In several cases since the seminal 2011 Delaware Supreme Court decision CML V LLC v. Bax, which held that creditors of Delaware LLCs lack standing to pursue derivative claims, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of...more

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Federal District Court Refuses To Dismiss Aiding And Abetting Breach Of Fiduciary Duty Claim Against A Law Firm

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In Milligan v. Salamone, the Greenberg Taurig lawfirm represented the bankrupt company when it sued a president and board member. No. 1:18-CV-327-RP, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 41009 (W.D. Tex. March 14, 2019). Greenberg drafted...more

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In Brief: Court Rules Against Lyondell Litigation Trustee on LBO Fraudulent Conveyance Claims

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In Weisfelner v. Blavatnik (In re Lyondell Chemical Company), 2017 BL 131876 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. Apr. 21, 2017), the bankruptcy court presiding over the chapter 11 case of Lyondell Chemical Company ("Lyondell") handed down a...more

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T&E Litigation Newsletter - February 2017

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Several recent decisions serve as a good reminder that it is not only the Probate and Family Court that addresses important T&E issues in Massachusetts. In the consolidated matters of Hanna et al. v. Williams et al.,...more

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