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Champerty Clarified
April 27, 2010
In a decision of great significance to secondary market distressed debt and claims purchasers, the New York Court of Appeals recently held that this type of "standard" assignment of claim does not violate New York's champerty statute.
It's All About the Guaranty
April 27, 2010
Every legal and financial adviser dealing with distressed real estate needs to put up a sign reminding themselves (and their clients) that "It's all about the guaranty.
How Safe Is the Harbor?
April 27, 2010
Do the Bankruptcy Code safe-harbor provisions have some unintended consequences? Can they adequately address systemic risk in an environment of ever-changing complex financial transactions? A complete analysis.
How to Avoid Paying for Your Divorce
March 29, 2010
Two recent New Jersey cases highlight the problems matrimonial attorneys are having collecting their fees, and the creative methods clients are using to avoid payment.
Finders/Keepers
March 29, 2010
Assume that your client has been sued by a former employee, and that a post-termination electronic search of the employee's laptop uncovers e-mails to legal counsel. Now what?
On the Move
March 26, 2010
Who's doing what; who's going where.
Defending the Preference and Fraudulent Transfer Safe Harbor
March 26, 2010
Last month, we discussed the fact that the The Bankruptcy Code ("Code") has at least nine so-called "safe harbor" (i.e., bankruptcy insulating) provisions for financial contracts. The article concludes herein.
Proposed Revisions to Rule 2019
March 26, 2010
Bankruptcy Rule 2019, an often-ignored pivotal procedural rule in U.S. bankruptcies, has returned to the public eye. This reemergence stems from two recent decisions from the influential Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware as well as the controversial pending amendments to Rule 2019 proposed by the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States.
Does Rule 2019 Apply to Ad Hoc or Informal Committees?
March 26, 2010
The debate over whether ad hoc or informal committees or groups of creditors or interest holders ("ad hoc committees") must comply with Bankruptcy Rule 2019 recently intensified due to a split among several Bankruptcy Court decisions.
Second Circuit: 502(d) Does Not Apply to Administrative Claims
February 23, 2010
In <i>ASM Capital, LP v. Ames Department Stores, Inc.</i> the Second Circuit Court of Appeals (the "Second Circuit") held that ' 502(d) of the Bankruptcy Code, which disallows claims until the claimant has returned all voidable preferential payments and other voidable transfers from the debtor's estate, does not apply to disallow administrative claims under 503(b).

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