Key Takeaways
I’m on a curiosity-quest to find the first-ever U.S. Supreme Court opinion on the subject of bankruptcy.
Excitement arises, for a moment, upon discovering Gibbs v. Gibbs, 1 U.S. 371 (1788). After all, Gibbs v. Gibbs:
Three scholars published a new analysis of Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 consumer bankruptcy filings that is likely both the broadest and the most targeted study of consumer bankruptcy filing since Teresa A. Sullivan, Elizabeth Warren and Jay Lawrence Westbrook published The Fragile Middle Class: Americans in Debt. The new study by Professors Pamela Foohey, Robert M. Lawless and Deborah Thorne is titled
The major cryptocurrencies have experienced significant declines in 2022; with the crypto market shedding $2 trillion of its peak $3 trillion market capitalization in November 2021. Amid this “crypto winter,” Terra Luna and its algorithmic stablecoin collapsed, triggering a domino effect of losses and illiquidity throughout the crypto industry. The hedge fund Three Arrows Capital was the first big domino to fall, defaulting on $1 billion in loans including $650 million owed to Voyager Digital (“Voyager”).
On August 15, the Federal Reserve Board (Fed) issued final guidelines, outlining the tiered approach it will use when evaluating the growing requests from fintech firms and cryptocurrency companies for access to master accounts.
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Insurance Fights Can Complicate The Bankruptcy Labyrinth
By Shane Dilworth
SUMMARY
The owners of an ambitious Hawaiian golf project in the Makaha Valley of Oahu said Aloha (hello) to new owners, and Aloha (goodbye) to old debt obligations.
There is much to report since our last update on Voyager Digital’s bankruptcy case discussed here.
The recent bankruptcy filings of Voyager Digital Holdings, Inc. (Voyager) and Celsius Network LLC (Celsius) have abruptly introduced many customers to the bankruptcy process for the first time. Lowenstein Sandler’s experienced bankruptcy and crypto practices are monitoring these cases–and the entire crypto market–to help keep crypto customers and other interested parties educated and informed with respect to the bankruptcy process and what to expect going forward.
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