Finance and Banking

Innovation vs. Insolvency: Current Issues in Fintech and Cryptocurrency Cases

Fifth Circuit Holds that Equitable Mootness Doesn’t Protect Parties to the Appeal

Fifth Circuit didn’t permit plan proponents to structure a chapter 11 plan so that an appeal would be equitably moot.

Fifth Circuit Bans Uptier Financings for Violating the Principle of Ratable Treatment

The Fifth Circuit declines to adopt a securities industry guidebook for what’s a permissible financing.

A Judgment Lien Isn’t Created by Filing a UCC Financing Statement, Judge Furay Says

To obtain a judgment lien, filing a UCC financing statement is no substitute for docketing a judgment.

A Mortgage Deficiency Judgment Is a Judicial Lien Subject to Avoidance Under § 522(f)

A deficiency judgment resulting from mortgage foreclosure is not ‘a judgment arising out of a mortgage foreclosure’ and can be avoided as a judgment lien.