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Assignee creditors are protected by Code’s fraud provisions

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 31 2007

Assignee creditors are protected by the provision of the Bankruptcy Code that prevents debtors from obtaining a discharge for debts obtained through fraud, the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has held

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

R&R Capital, LLC v. Merritt

  • Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 3 2009

In this case, the Delaware Court of Chancery found the removal of the manager of nine Delaware LLCs (the “Entities”) for cause valid and ordered the appointment of a receiver to dissolve and wind up the Entities

FSA takes bankruptcy proceedings against UK lawyer

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 30 2007

In proceedings commenced by the Financial Services Authority (FSA), the UK High Court ruled in December 2004 that Adrian Sam & Co (ASC) and John Martin, one of ASC’s two partners, were knowingly involved in the UK activities of an illegal overseas investment firm (a boiler room) and they were ordered to pay £360,000 (approximately $700,000) to 63 investors involved in the boiler room scam

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”

Criminal insolvency in Spain

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • Spain
  • -
  • September 7 2007

Spanish insolvency law has been modified recently by Act 222003

FSA shuts down boiler room scams

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 28 2007

On September 25, the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) announced that two UK-based firms have been placed into liquidation by the UK High Court following the FSA’s intervention

Idaho Department of Finance wins court-appointed examiner in DBSI bankruptcy to probe $2 billion in allegedly fraudulent transactions

  • Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 17 2009

The State of Idaho’s Department of Finance has won approval for a court-appointed examiner in the closely watched bankruptcy proceedings of DBSI, Inc., an Idaho-based investment firm

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