Business Bankruptcy Information
 

Bankruptcy Law, Preference and Court Information
Creditor's Committee, Ordinary Course of Business Defense

Information and guidance regarding bankruptcy, preferences and court actions for anyone involved in business.

• Bankruptcy Preference And State Mechanic's Lien Laws
• You've Been Selected As A Critical Vendor
• Keeping The Debtor Afloat
• Court May Refuse Ordinary Course Of Business Defense
• Returned Inventory As A Preference Claim
• Immunizing Payments From Preference Risk
• Serving on a Creditor's Committee
• Is The State Preference Action Cooked?
• Safe Harbor and Bankruptcy Preferences
• Post Filing Deliveries Do Not Always Provide "New Value" Defense
• Critical Vendor List and Future Sales
• Payments Made With Credit Terms and Ordinary Course of Business Defense
• Bankruptcy Reform Act Taking Effect Soon
• How to Successfully Dispute a Preference Claim in Bankruptcy, A White Paper
• Your Rights in Bankruptcy
• Restructuring Agreements and the Ordinary Course of Business Defense
• The Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2005:
  What it means to the credit and financial professional
• Stopping Goods in Transit and Reclamation Demands Under Check 21
• Scrutinize Your Preference Settlement Are you Giving Up Your Replacement Claim?
• The Critical Vendor Doctrine After KMart
• Presenting Post-Dated Checks after the Bankruptcy Filing
• Say Goodbye to the State Preference Action?
• A Day Late and Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars Short
• Presenting Post-Dated Checks after the Bankruptcy Filing
• In Defense of a Preference
• Reclamation Demand Against Customer that later files Bankruptcy
• Pleading the Preference Claim: Is it getting easier for the bankruptcy Trustee?
• When is a Sale a Credit Sale or a Contemporaneous Exchange for New Value?
• Most Commonly Used Defenses Against Demands for the Return of Preferential Transfers
• Must the Vendor Provide Expert Testimony to Prove up the Ordinary course of Business Preference Defense?
• Supreme Court speaks to vendors about settling fraud claims against customers who later file bankruptcy
• An Antecedent Debt is a Condition to a Preference
• Is payment on the first time shipment within the ordinary course of business?
• Replacement Checks and the Bankruptcy Preference: Do You Keep The Money?
• Is your Customer Proposing an Out Of Court Workout Instead of Bankruptcy Protection
• Bankruptcy Court Takes Harsh Stance Against Trustee for Duplicative Action Against Vendor
• Critical Vendors and KMart: Is the Critical Vendor Doctrine Alive?
• Debtor in Possession Financing in the Spotlight
• Defending a Preference Claim Under the Solvency Defense
  What the Vendor Must Prove
• Dealing with the Insolvent Customer
• Making the Critical Vendor List and the Trade Claims Cap
• Bankruptcy Reclamation, Questions and Answers
• "Reliance on others" . . . as a defense to corporate fraud under Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• The Most Common Problem Associated With Filing a Proof of Claim in a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
• Your corporate customer files Chapter 7 and business starts anew with newly formed corporation
• Electronic notices to creditors comes to bankruptcy courts
• Calculating the Preference Period
• Considering the Industry Standard of the Ordinary Course of Business Preference Defense
• My Favorite Myths about the U.S. Bankruptcy Code
• Must a Subsidiary File for Bankruptcy If Its' Parent Company Does So?
• What Happens If I Miss The Bar Date in a Bankruptcy?
• Bankruptcy Checklist Information
• Understanding the Ordinary Course of Business for the Bankruptcy Preference Laws
• Does Your Reclamation Demand Letter Sufficiently Identify Our Goods?
• Keeping Chapter 11's in Your Home Jurisdiction
• Bankruptcy Court Clarifies the Ordinary Course of Business
• Bankruptcy Courts Continue To Recognize Essential Vendor Doctrine
• Priority of Claims Under the UCC
• Was Your Debtor's Bankruptcy Planned?
• Myths and Misconceptions about the U.S. Bankruptcy Code
• Becoming a Secured Creditor
• Chapter 11's on the Rise: Red Flags and Steps to Protect Your Credit Sales
• Reaffirmation of Debt in Bankruptcy
• Bankruptcy Reclamation
• An Introduction to Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
• Non-Dischargeable Debts in Bankruptcy
• Some Sobering Statistics About Bankruptcy Filings
• A Bankruptcy Checklist
• Is your Customer in the "Zone of Insolvency" and unable to pay Vendors - yet pay Bondholders?
• Standby Letter of Credit Proceeds Belong To Creditor Not Bankruptcy Estate
• Working with Your Long-Term Customer that is Financially Troubled May help you beat a Preference Action
• Preference Payments and The Untouchables: Executory Privilege
• When Your Bankrupt Customer Fails to Cooperate: Debtor Prison Retuns?
• Dealing with a Major Customer's Second Chapter 11 Filing
• Playing "Catch Up" with a Prepetition Claim Can be Costly for Vendor
• Reclamation Demand Against Bankrupt Debtor
• The Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1999: What it May Mean for Vendors
• When may it apply to trade creditors and what steps should trade creditors take to comply?
• Making Your Reclamation Demand
• Beating the Secured Creditor: The "Avoidance Powers" Can Be a Vendor's Best Friend
• Dispensing With a Creditors Committee in a Small Business Bankruptcy, What is the "Cause?