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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

In re TOUSA: District Court reverses bankruptcy court's order requiring lenders to disgorge $480 million as fraudulent transfer

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 5 2011

On February 11, 2011, the Hon Alan Gold of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida issued a 113 page opinion and order quashing the bankruptcy court's order requiring the lenders involved in TOUSA, Inc.'s Transeastern joint venture to disgorge, as fraudulent transfers under Section 548 of the Bankruptcy Code, settlement monies that they had received on July 31, 2007 in repayment of their existing debt and to pay prejudgment interest on such monies, for a total disgorgement in excess of $480 million

How to turn a bankruptcy reorganization into an insider trading charge

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 30 2011

In In re Washington Mutual, Inc., No. 08-12229 (MFW), 2011 WL 4090757 (Bankr. D. Del. Sept. 13, 2011), the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware denied confirmation of debtor Washington Mutual, Inc.’s (“WaMu”) plan of reorganization

New York high court applies the "single-entity exemption" in the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 12 2011

In RGH Liquidating Trust v. Deloitte & Touche, LLP, 2011 WL 2471542 (N.Y. June 23, 2011), the New York Court of Appeals held that a liquidating trust established pursuant to a bankruptcy reorganization plan was a single “person” within the meaning of the “single-entity exemption” in the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998 (“SLUSA”