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E-Bike manufacturer goes into liquidation

UK debt collections

Amsterdam-based VanMoof, an e-bike manufacturer, has gone into liquidation in the UK. The Dutch company confirmed through an email to its customers that the company is undergoing a Creditors’ Voluntary Liquidation. On Monday, July 31, US-based Micromobility.com announced that it has submitted a non-binding bid to acquire VanMoof.

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New Court Ruling on Whether Avoidance Powers Require Benefit to Creditors

PBWT

The Bankruptcy Code grants the power to avoid certain transactions to a bankruptcy trustee or debtor-in-possession. Is there a general requirement that these avoidance powers only be used when doing so would benefit creditors? Glove, Inc. (“Plaintiff”) is a manufacturer of gymnastic grips and wrist supports.

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Bankruptcy Court Won’t Dabble in Case Concerning a Marijuana Business

PBWT

Like many other retail businesses, those dispensaries needed suppliers, who in turn needed manufacturers, who themselves needed to procure equipment. Rosinbomb manufactures and sells “organic extraction presses utilizing a combination of heat and pressure to generate organic concentrates.” ” In re Mayer , 2022 Bankr.

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Burr’s Derek Meek and Mike Hall Named to Lawdragon’s Inaugural Leading Bankruptcy Lawyers List

Burr Forman

Bankruptcy and Restructuring Lawyers. Derek is the chair of the firm’s Creditors’ Rights and Bankruptcy practice group and a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy. Mike is also a partner in the firm’s Creditors’ Rights and Bankruptcy Practice Group.

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Releases: How Did We Get Here and What is Next?

PBWT

Facing massive liability from current plaintiffs as well as an unknown and unknowable group of future plaintiffs, asbestos manufacturers filed for chapter 11. This approach became so widely accepted that it is now codified in the Bankruptcy Code. 2015) (upholding bankruptcy ruling approving third-party releases). § 524(g).

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Burr & Forman Names Eight New Partners Across Five Offices

Burr Forman

Meryl Cowan is a member of the firm’s Labor & Employment group where she represents employers, manufacturers, and companies in all aspects of general employment, labor, and employment discrimination law.

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Supreme Court Expands Creditors’ by Allowing Denial of a Discharge Under Sec. 523(a)(2)(A) if Debtor Transfers Assets in Violation of State Fraudulent Transfer Statute

The Creditors Rights

Section 523(a)(2)(A) of the Bankruptcy Code allows a creditor to obtain a judgment denying its debtor a discharge of debts incurred by false pretenses or actual fraud. Chrysalis Manufacturing Corp. Congress added the term “actual fraud” when it enacted the Bankruptcy Code in 1978. Ritz , 2016 WL 2842452 (2016).