Commercial Fraud Committee
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Bankruptcy Judge Jeff Bohm of the U.S.
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
-Abraham Lincoln
Anyone who has served as a trustee in a chapter 7 or 11 bankruptcy case has encountered the business debtor whose records are “missing.” Usually, the debtor’s offi
In the continuing fraud and bankruptcy saga of former music promoter Lou Pearlman, the appointed chapter 11 trustee recently filed an emergency motion against his former lawyer charging her with conduct "intended and designed to obstruct, frustrate, impede, delay and prevent the trustee and creditors of the bankruptcy estate" from pursuing their investigation of the deb
In Advanced Telecommunication Network Inc. v. Allen (In re Advanced Telecommunication Network Inc.), 490 F.3d 1325 (11th Cir. 2007), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit adopted the approach set forth by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in In re Xonics Photochemical, 841 F.2d 198, 200 (7th Cir.
A Ponzi scheme is an arrangement whereby an enterprise makes payments to investors from the proceeds of a later investment rather than from profits of the underlying business venture as the investors expected.
Unlike Vegas, what happens in bankruptcy court does not necessarily stay in bankruptcy court. The ripples born of Enron’s and its affiliates’ chapter 11 filings are still reverberating in nonbankruptcy courts. The recent decision in Regents of the Univ. of Calif. v. Credit Suisse First Boston (USA) Inc., 482 F.3d 372 (5th Cir.
Are There No Exceptions?
Being a displaced Brit from north of the U.S. border, I frankly don’t have a whole lot to contribute to the Commercial Fraud newsletter on U.S. statutory issues.
Mr. Nathaniel J. Palmer
Co-Chair
Reid Collins & Tsai LLP
Austin, TX
(512) 647-6107
Co-Chair
Reid Collins & Tsai LLP
Austin, TX
(512) 647-6107
Mr. Christian A. Pereyda
Education Director
Maynard Nexsen, PC
Birmingham, AL
(205) 254-1854
Education Director
Maynard Nexsen, PC
Birmingham, AL
(205) 254-1854
Ms. Alyson M. Fiedler, Esq.
Newsletter Editor
Ice Miller LLC
New York, NY
(212) 835-6315
Newsletter Editor
Ice Miller LLC
New York, NY
(212) 835-6315
Mr. Aaron M. Kaufman
Special Projects Leader
Gray Reed LLP
Dallas, TX
(469) 320-6050
Special Projects Leader
Gray Reed LLP
Dallas, TX
(469) 320-6050