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Best Practices: Bankruptcy Preference Defense -- Analyzing Your Options



by M. Mallory Mantiply
Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC - Roanoke Office

W. Calvin Smith
Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC - Roanoke Office

January 6, 2008

Previously published on January 2008

Situation: In an effort to treat all creditors equally, the Bankruptcy Code permits the debtor-in-possession, trustee or other party acting on behalf of the bankruptcy estate to recover from creditors certain payments made on or within 90 days before the bankruptcy filing. In a large case, there are typically hundreds of potentially preferential payments, and opposing counsel rarely can examine all of them closely. As a result, any creditor that received payments within the preference period may receive demand letters or be served with a complaint by mail seeking a return of the allegedly preferential payments.


 

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