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Revisiting insider trading in the debt markets: lessons for debt investors and members of committees in bankruptcy cases

  • Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 19 2007

For some participants in the debt and credit markets, insider trading risks seem like a problem for someone else

How long and strong is trustee Piccard’s claw?

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 10 2009

On December 10, 2008, Bernard Madoff confessed to his two sons that he had been running what amounted to a massive Ponzi scheme on the scale of approximately $50 billion and that he could no longer sustain it due to, among other things, substantial redemption requests

Bear Stearns may well be found to have acted in good faith in the Manhattan Investment Fund Case

  • Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 31 2008

In the summer of 2007, we reported on Gredd v. Bear, Stearns Securities Corp. (In re Manhattan Investment Fund, Ltd.), decided by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York

Madoff - analysis of the recent decision regarding the scope of SIPA protection

  • Moses & Singer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 24 2010

The Bankruptcy Court has now provided its long-awaited answer as to the scope of the Securities Investors Protection Corporation (“SIPC”) liability for investor accounts with Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (“Madoff”

Bankruptcy court orders return of over $140 million of margin payments made by hedge fund to prime broker

  • Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 16 2007

A recent bankruptcy court decision in the Southern District of New York may raise concern among brokerage firms which execute and clear brokerage transactions for hedge funds and similar investment vehicles

SIPC trustee's definition of net equity adopted in Madoff case

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 8 2010

On March 1st, the bankruptcy court overseeing the bankruptcy proceedings and SIPA liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities upheld the SIPC trustee's method for determining the net equity held by the victims of Madoff's fraud

Madoff and Stanford preview: Bayou Group cases established precedent for clawing back Ponzi scheme payments

  • Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 31 2009

As the Madoff Securities and Stanford Financial schemes have unraveled in recent months, financial industry participants have had to scrutinize closely their involvement with these entities

Second Circuit: new Parmalat liable for old Parmalat "Frankenstein" suits

  • White & Case LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 3 2008

On July 22, 2008, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed denial of the motion of Parmalat S.p.A. ("New Parmalat") to extend an injunction provided to its predecessor, Parmalat Finanziaria, S.p.A., under Bankruptcy Code section 304, against securities fraud actions

Reversal of decision in Bayou Group bankruptcy offers little guidance for the institutional investor wishing to redeem from a fraudulent ponzi scheme

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 26 2010

In a partial reversal of a decision from Bayou Group LLC's bankruptcy case, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York reconsidered a controversial ruling that sent shivers down the spines of institutional investors in 2008

Bankruptcy Court adopts Madoff trustee’s method of determining “net equity”

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 28 2010

The United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York issued an important ruling on March 1, 2010 in the Securities Investor Protection Act (SIPA) liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (Madoff Securities), adopting the trustee’s method of determining “net equity” for purposes of distributing “customer property” and Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) funds under SIPA

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