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Welcome to the Bankruptcy Preference Creditor’s Digest website. If this is your first exposure to bankruptcy preferences, we suggest that you START HERE. If you are already knowledgeable in the field of bankruptcy preference law, we believe that you will find this site to be, by far, the most comprehensive resource on the web about bankruptcy preference defense.
We are a law firm that represents businesses, both small and large, in responding to demands for return of preferential transfers. We have represented manufacturers, commercial suppliers, commercial landlords and other bankruptcy creditors in asserting their rights and in the defense of bankruptcy preference claims.
We believe that our in depth knowledge of bankruptcy preference law, effective use of technology and practical, cost-benefit approach make us the ideal law firm to defend simple to highly complex bankruptcy preference claims.
Among the still ongoing bankruptcy cases in which we have recently obtained dismissals of preference actions are the following:
If you are faced with a bankruptcy preference claim, please consider us to represent you. We would like to hear from you and share with you our initial thoughts at no charge. Please call us at 888.547.5170.
An economic analysis of the 204 bankruptcy preference claims ($57,467,121 in total amount of claims) filed in the Intermet Corporation Bankruptcy by the GUC Liquidating Trustee of the GUC Liquidating Trust. The note focuses on:
1. claim amounts below the venue threshold under Section 1409(b);
2. application of the venue defense as to individual debtors in a multi-debtor bankruptcy; and
3. the inverse proportion of the number of small claim preference defendants to the potential preference recoveries for the liquidating trust.
2 Jun 2010 Three Questions that Give Practical Meaning to Fundamental Bankruptcy Preference Concepts
30 Mar 2010 A Bankruptcy Preference Adversary Proceeding Complaint – An Elemental Video Review – Part 1
5 Apr 2010 The Caption of the Adversary Proceeding Complaint – An Elemental Video Review – Part 2
11 Jan 2009 Ordinary Course of Business Bankruptcy Preference Defense
11 Jan 2009 Documentation Makes Contemporaneous Exchange Preference Defense a Winner
11 Jan 2009 Multiple Payments – Multiple Bankruptcy Preference Defenses – Mixing and Matching
19 Feb 2009 Section 365 Bankruptcy Preference Defense – Overlooked, Underutilized
11 Jan 2009 Bankruptcy Preference Subsequent New Value Defense
3 Sep 2010 Ply-Marts: The Not-Good, the Bad and the Ugly Sides of Involuntary Bankruptcy
18 Aug 2010 Chapter 7 Trustee’s Ply-Marts Preference Claims Illustrate Some “Preference Claim Timing Facts Of Life”
17 Aug 2010 Lessons of an Economic Analysis of the 204 Intermet Bankruptcy Preference Adversary Proceedings
22 Jul 2010 SemCrude 356 Bankruptcy Preference Actions Filed Under Stricter Pleading Standard of In Re Charys
30 May 2010 OTC International – High Concentration of Foreign Bankruptcy Preference Defendants
23 Feb 2010 HomeBanc Mortgage – 386 Bankruptcy Preference Actions – Statute of Limitations Trustee Appointment Extension
26 Aug 2010 Creditors Brace for Preference Claims in Hard Rock Park (HRP) of Myrtle Beach Bankruptcy
27 Jun 2010 Monaco Coach Corporation – Mass Preference Claims Still Several Months Away But Coming
20 Jul 2010 Ascendia Brands, Inc. Poised to Launch Mass Bankruptcy Preference Actions
16 Sep 2009 Fluid Routing Solutions – Bankruptcy to Convert to 7, Preference Claims Coming
25 Aug 2010 Oriental Trading Company, Inc. Bankruptcy – 30 Largest Unsecured Creditors, Trade Debt Picture
29 Nov 2009 Grede Foundries – Debtor Onslaught to Disallow Supplier 503(b)(9) Administrative Expenses
18 Sep 2009 363 Sale Plans Resurface in Grede Foundries Bankruptcy; Will this Bankruptcy be Different?
25 Aug 2009 Bashas Lesson – PACA Trust Beneficiaries Require Bankruptcy Advocacy
3 Aug 2009 Cooper-Standard Automotive Combo 503(b)(9) Claims, Essential Supplier and Foreign Vendor Motion
30 Jul 2009 Stant Bankruptcy 363 Sale; Have and Have Not Suppliers
28 Jul 2009 Critical Vendor Motion in Arclin Bankruptcy Raises Questions for 503(b)(9) Claimants
17 Jul 2009 PACA, PASA Issues Complicate Bashas First-Day Motions
8 Jul 2009 How Did Lear Decide Which Suppliers are its Critical Vendors
5 Jul 2009 Strict European Insolvency Laws Next Risk for US Automotive Suppliers
3 Jul 2009 DDJ Capital Derails Grede Foundries and Wayzatas Fast Track 363 Sale Strategy
18 Jun 2009 GM Bankruptcy – Cure Costs Procedures Catastrophic Failures
18 Jun 2009 GM Bankruptcy – Selective Cure List and Substantive Objections
2 Jun 2009 GM Bankruptcy – For Suppliers Chrysler Bankruptcy Lesson 1
30 May 2009 Metaldyne Bankruptcy – A Dismal Picture for Suppliers
28 May 2009 Chrysler LLC Bankruptcy – Supplier $1,000,000 Cure Cost Club
26 May 2009 Chrysler LLC Bankruptcy – Supplier Contract Cure Costs Horrors
23 Apr 2009 Contech U.S., LLC Bankruptcy – 503(b)(9) Claim Bar Date and Procedures
20 Apr 2009 Noble International-Two Debtors not Insolvent?