In 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit made headlines when it ruled that creditors' state law fraudulent transfer claims arising from the 2007 leveraged buyout.
Introduction
One year ago, we wrote that the large business bankruptcy landscape in 2019 was generally shaped by economic, market, and leverage factors, with notable exceptions for disastrous wildfires, liabilities arising from the opioid crisis, price-fixing fallout, and corporate restructuring shenanigans.
The year 2020 was a different story altogether. The headline was COVID-19.
The pandemic may not have been responsible for every reversal of corporate fortune in 2020, but it weighed heavily on the scale, particularly for companies in the energy, retail, restaurant, entertainment, health care, travel, and hospitality industries. Mandatory shutdowns beginning in the spring of 2020 wreaked havoc on the bottom lines of thousands of companies confronting a precipitous drop in demand for their products and services. Some were able to weather the worst of the storm with packages of government assistance or by adapting their business models to meet the unique challenges of the pandemi
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In 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit made headlines when it ruled that creditors state law fraudulent transfer claims arising from the 2007 leveraged buyout ( LBO ) of Tribune Co. ( Tribune ) were preempted by the safe harbor for certain securities, commodity or forward contract payments set forth in section 546(e) of the Bankruptcy Code. In
In re Tribune Co. Fraudulent Conveyance Litig., 946 F.3d 66 (2d Cir. 2019),
petition for cert. filed, No. 20-8-07102020, 2020 WL 3891501 (U.S. July 6, 2020) (
Tribune 2 ), the Second Circuit concluded that a debtor may itself qualify as a financial institution covered by the safe harbor, and thus avoid the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court s decision in