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How Many Connections are Too Many? Bankruptcy Court Finds Multiple Attenuated Connections Not Enough to Warrant Disqualification of Debtors’ Professional

Introduction

USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, United States bankruptcy court
Will We Have New Rules for Corporate Bankruptcies? Recently Proposed Legislation That Could Reform Chapter 11 Practice

Overview

USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, US Congress
No Procedural Notice, No Problem: 11th Circuit Affirms Due Process Not Violated Where Debtor Provides Actual Notice

Overview

USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, United States bankruptcy court, Eleventh Circuit
Trusts and insolvency - a guide

Private wealth structures are not immune from insolvency. Here we examine the Jersey and Guernsey position from the trustee's perspective and consider the issues with which a trustee needs to be familiar.

Test for insolvency

Guernsey, Jersey, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Private Client & Offshore Services, Ogier
Asset protection trusts - why the recent interest?

Background

So what precisely is an asset protection trust and what is it, over and above a normal trust that an asset protection trust is seeking to achieve? This paper considers these issues from a Jersey law perspective and fundamentally asks the question to what extent a Jersey trust, once established, will protect assets from creditor claims.

Jersey, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Private Client & Offshore Services, Ogier, Bankruptcy, Asset protection
A Check is Transferred When It’s Honored, Not Delivered

Readers familiar with contract law undoubtedly know the “mailbox rule,” that an offer is accepted the moment a document goes in the mail.1 The United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit (the “BAP”) recently dealt with its own variant of the mailbox rule: does the issuance of a check constitute a transfer of estate assets on the date the check is delivered or on the date it is honored?

USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, Ninth Circuit, Bankruptcy Appellate Panel
To Cap or Not to Cap: Ninth Circuit Vacates Order of District Court and Revisits Section 502(b)(6)

In this installment of “To Cap or Not to Cap,” which was previously featured on Weil’s Bankruptcy Blog in May of 2015 (see here), we reviewed a recent decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In Kupfer v.

USA, California, Arbitration & ADR, Insolvency & Restructuring, Law Firm Management, Litigation, Real Estate, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, US District Court for Northern District of California
Subjective Intent to Assume Unexpired Lease of Nonresidential Real Property Deemed Insufficient

Pursuant to a provision of the Bankruptcy Code familiar to readers of Weil’s Bankruptcy Blog (see our prior post, To Assume or Not to Assume, that Is the Question: What Act Constitutes “Assumption” Under Section 365(d)(4) of the Bankruptcy Code?), the United States District Court for the District of Delaware recently affirmed a bankruptcy c

USA, Delaware, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Real Estate, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, Bankruptcy, Debtor, Landlord, Debtor in possession, US Code, Title 11 of the US Code, United States bankruptcy court, US District Court for District of Delaware