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Getting It Back: Recovering Transfers That Create Insolvency

By David Gottlieb and Michael D. Schwarzmann

Over the past few years, several companies have run out of money and been forced to declare bankruptcy within months of completing transactions that depleted their equity value and rendered them insolvent. Sometimes the value was dissipated through an equity distribution and other times through nonordinary course expenses.

There are successful approaches to recovering funds for creditors in such cases. Creditors, however, are not the only parties with a stake in understanding how such transactions can be unwound. The recipients of the funds generated by such loans could be required to return the proceeds, leaving the recipients in significantly worse condition than they were in before they received the funds.

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