In early 2009, the Federal Reserve Board, along with the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) and the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) (the quot;Agenciesquot;) proposed new rules primarily targeted to ATM and debit card transactions quot;intended to ensure that consumers have clear and...

A recent article in this journal raised the spectre that a judgment creditor of a member of a limited liability company (LLC) might apply for and obtain a charging order; then or later persuade the court to order foreclosure on the membership interest subject to the charging order before the...

Courts have repeatedly stated that equitable subordination is a compensatory remedy. This view is demonstrably mistaken; if equitable subordination is compensatory, only injured creditors, and not trustees or debtors in possession, would have Constitutional standing to bring equitable...

This paper discusses several legal issues regarding credit transfers and the electronic payment instruments most often used in Belgium, i.e. debit cards and credit cards. More specifically the following questions will be addressed: who is liable in case of late or erroneous execution of a...

Creditors have long understood that any claims they submit for repayment in a bankruptcy might be valid, but subject to subordination in the order of payment of the bankruptcy estate's limited funds if the creditor behaved inequitably as the debtor failed. Enron's on-going bankruptcy raised many...

The German Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Court of Justice) has recently passed a judgement in which it held board members of a company liable for oral information given to investors during a quot;road showquot;. After the company had decided on an increase in its capital, the members of its...