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March 13, 2024

With no opposition, a mainland Chinese company with an approved arrangement in Hong Kong might win foreign main recognition in the U.S.

March 1, 2024

A foreign branch of a U.S. bank isn’t a foreign bank eligible for chapter 15.

February 15, 2024

Prof. Westbrook believes there is no common law alternative to chapter 15.

November 29, 2023

The 2005 amendment to Section 303(b)(1) disqualifies an involuntary petitioner if there is a dispute as to even part of the creditor’s claim.

October 11, 2023

A bankruptcy judge in New York was deferential to foreign liquidators using chapter 15 to extinguish a lawsuit in the U.S. that they saw as a nuisance.

September 29, 2023

A district judge in New York reversed the bankruptcy court, which had held that a Kuwaiti public pension fund was not entitled to sovereign immunity for having engaged in commercial activity.

September 8, 2023

Court’s inherent authority to sanction allows coercive contempt sanctions where rules and statutes are not up to the task.

August 10, 2023

There could be ‘related to’ jurisdiction if a lawsuit between nondebtors might reduce claims against the bankrupt estate.

April 24, 2023

Judge Bason of Los Angeles would permit a creditor in ‘limited circumstances’ to undertake Rule 2004 discovery in a chapter 15 case to further the court’s ‘assistance of the foreign main proceeding.’

February 21, 2023

If there’s an appeal, Bankruptcy Judge Garrity told the district judge all there is to know about chapter 15.

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