The Court of Appeal recently handed down its much-anticipated judgment in (1) Jetivia S.A. (2) URS Brunschweiler v Bilta (UK) Limited (in liquidation) (2013).
Judge Burton Lifland, the bankruptcy judge overseeing the liquidation proceedings of Bernard L.
CENTRAL STATES SOUTHEAST AND SOUTHWEST AREAS PENSION FUND v. O'NEILL BROS. TRANSFER & STORAGE (August 31, 2010)
IN RE: ALTHEIMER & GRAY (April 15, 2010)
The Supreme Court has cleared the way for Irving Picard, the Trustee overseeing the Madoff liquidation proceeding, to distribute billions of dollars to victims of Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. On Monday, the Court declined to hear appeals in two cases from the Second Circuit challenging Picard’s formula for repaying victims.
IN RE: RIVER WEST PLAZA - CHICAGO, LLC (December 22, 2011)
IN RE: RESOURCE TECHNOLOGY CORP. (OCTOBER 31, 2011)
On September 21, 2011, FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection Director David Vladeck sent a letter to the court appointed consumer privacy ombudsman in the Borders Group, Inc. (Borders) bankruptcy proceeding advising against the sale of Border's customer information absent customer consent or significant restrictions on the transfer and use of the information.
The well known travails of Fred Wilpon, the principal owner of the New York Mets, have all converged this past week. He, his partner Saul Katz and their families and affiliated enterprises (the “Wilpon/Katz Group”) lost several hundred million dollars when Bernard Madoff’s long running Ponzi scheme finally unraveled at the height of the financial crisis in 2008.