Views From the Bench 2012: Avoidance Actions

Laura Davis Jones will moderate a panel of noted bankruptcy judges on current developments in bankruptcy caselaw regarding avoiding actions. Among the topics to be discussed are

• the safe-harbor rules of  section 546(e) (Quebecor World)
• lessons from the Madoff case
• section 503(b)(9) goods as subsequent new value (Friedman’s Inc. v. Roth Staffing Companies)
• the examiner’s report in the Dynegy case
• the fate of affiliate guaranties and the meaning of reasonably equivalent value (11th Circuit appeal of Tousa)
• prepetition payments to the counterparty to an executory contract that is later assumed (Carolina Fluids)

For more information on this program, please visit the ABI.