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Delaware Bankruptcy Court: debtors can offset administrative claims before general unsecured claims

While section 503(b)(9) claims deserve priority payment over general unsecured claims, they do not provide a basis for stripping a debtor’s defenses in determining the allowed amount of a section 503(b)(9) claim.

Note: Pepper Hamilton LLP serves as co-counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors (the Committee) in the ADI case. The views expressed herein are solely those of the authors and not of the Committee.

USA, Delaware, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Troutman Pepper, Debtor, Unsecured debt, United States bankruptcy court
Supreme Court’s denial of certiorari strengthens intellectual property licensees’ protections in cross-border insolvency cases

Chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code provides mechanisms for dealing with cases of cross-border insolvency. On Oct. 6, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Jaffé v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., denied review of a decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, upholding a bankruptcy court’s determination that a foreign debtor in a Chapter 15 case could not terminate its intellectual property licenses under German law, where such action would deprive the licensees of the debtor’s U.S.

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School specialty, Inc., files bankruptcy in Delaware seeking to sell substantially all of its assets

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Furniture retailer, Carl's Patio, files for bankruptcy in Delaware

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Penson Worldwide files for bankruptcy in Delaware

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Preference complaints filed in RG Steel bankruptcy

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Bankruptcy trustee in ultimate electronics files more preference actions

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Overseas Shipholding Group files for bankruptcy in Delaware

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First Place Bank Holding Co. files for bankruptcy in Delaware

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Raser Technologies trustee files preference complaints

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