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Texas Bankruptcy Court Allows Make-Whole Premiums, Post-Petition Interest on Unsecured Claims at Contractual Default Rate

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USA, Texas, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, Title 11 of the US Code
"Time Is On My Side" — When a "Time of the Essence" Closing Date Keeps Rolling Like a Stone for 60 Days

The recent decision of the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York in In re AAGS Holdings LLC, Case No. 19-13029 (SMB) (Bankr. D. Del. Nov. 12, 2019), underscores the ability of debtors — and specifically, for purposes of this Client Alert, parties to real property purchase contracts — to take advantage of the Bankruptcy Code’s 60-day tolling period to get more time to close on a purchase despite a “time of the essence” ("TOE") closing deadline.

USA, New York, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, Escrow, United States bankruptcy court, US District Court for the Southern District of New York
US Supreme Court Limits Securities Safe Harbor Protection From Bankruptcy Clawback Suits

The securities safe harbor protection of Bankruptcy Code (“Code”) § 546(e) does not protect allegedly fraudulent “transfers in which financial institutions served as mere conduits,” held the U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 27, 2018. Merit Management Group LP v. FTI Consulting Inc., 2018 WL 1054879, *7 (2018). Affirming the Seventh Circuit’s reinstatement of the bankruptcy trustee’s complaint alleging the insolvent debtor’s overpayment for a stock interest, the Court found the payment not covered by §546(e) and thus recoverable. The district court had dismissed the trustee’s claim.

USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, Supreme Court of the United States