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Bankruptcy Judge Shelley C. Chapman skirts an arbitration agreement to allow discovery.

Principles of comity justify enforcing a U.K. scheme of arrangement that releases non-filed affiliates’ guarantees.

Augie/Restivo problems are avoided by including opt-out provisions in a substantive consolidation chapter 11 plan.

Bankruptcy Judge Vyskocil holds that alter ego need not be alleged to recover from a corporation’s sole shareholder as the beneficiary of a fraudulent transfer.

The trustee for a bankrupt broker can ignore an individual customer’s request to transfer securities to a solvent broker and may instead transfer customer accounts in bulk.

For swaps, the Section 560 safe harbor overrides the anti-ipso facto provisions in the Bankruptcy Code.

Res judicata is flexibly applied again to bankruptcy cases.

Bankruptcy judge finds bad faith for walking out on a fully documented but unsigned settlement.

Madoff spawns more law, this time on expert testimony about the good faith defense to a fraudulent transfer with ‘actual intent.’

New York judge enforces a French reorganization similar to a U.S. prepack.