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• Bankruptcy Sales: Finding a Diamond In the Rough

  There is no efficient market for the sale of bankruptcy assets. Inefficient markets yield a transactional drag, potentially dampening the ability of debtors and trustees to maximize value for creditors. This article identifies ways in which investors may more easily discover bankruptcy asset sales.

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• Judge Rules Shaquille O'Neal Will Face Securities Lawsuit for Promotion, Sale of NFTs

  A federal district court in Miami, FL, has ruled that former National Basketball Association star Shaquille O'Neal will have to face a lawsuit over his promotion of unregistered securities in the form of cryptocurrency tokens and that he was a "seller" of these unregistered securities.

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• Second Circuit Rejects Arbitration of Debtor's Asserted Discharge Violation

  A bankruptcy court properly denied a bank's motion to compel arbitration of a debtor's asserted violation of the court's discharge injunction, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held.

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• Attachment and Perfection of Security Interests

  This article addresses common attachment and perfection problems raised in recent cases, and provides suggestions on how secured parties can avoid these pitfalls.

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• Guidance on Distributions As 'Disbursements' and U.S. Trustee Fees

  In a recent case from the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, In re Paragon Offshore PLC, the bankruptcy court provided guidance on whether a post-plan effective date litigation trust's distributions constituted disbursements subject to the U.S. Trustee fee "tax."

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