February 05, 2026
A judge converted Dormify's Chapter 11 case to a Chapter 7, a Canadian clothier's foreign representative asked to close the U.S. portion of its insolvency proceedings, and the liquidation trustee for Bernie Madoff's estate lost an effort to add $7 million more in claims to a clawback case.
January 08, 2026
Firstbase.io and a creditor fought over a law firm's bid for $1.6 million in fees, a New York judge gave a debtor access to a $500,000 postpetition financing package from an insider lender, and another approved a settlement between Bernie Madoff's trustee and Koch Industries.
September 30, 2025
A New York bankruptcy judge has thrown out $324 million of claims against London-based HSBC and its affiliates that were brought by the trustee overseeing the liquidation of Bernie Madoff's bankruptcy estate, finding the claims in an amended complaint do not relate back to claims in an earlier complaint.
September 18, 2025
French investment manager Natixis wants a court-ordered international privacy monitor to oversee its transfer of discovery materials to the trustee administering the bankruptcy estate of Bernard Madoff in the trustee's $214 million clawback lawsuit against it.
July 02, 2025
A bankruptcy judge approved Village Roadshow's proposal to pay a handful of important employees bonuses to stick around. A brokerage insurer backed a bid for $35.5 million in fees by counsel for the trustee overseeing the Bernie Madoff bankruptcy. A bankruptcy judge threw out media production company Splashlight Holding LLC's Chapter 11.
March 12, 2025
Units of the London-based bank HSBC say that more than $324 million of claims brought by the trustee overseeing the liquidation of Bernie Madoff's bankruptcy estate should be thrown out because they were filed more than a decade late.
March 07, 2025
The U.S. Trustee's Office opposed Yellow Corp.'s Chapter 11 plan, saying its exculpation provisions cover ineligible people and entities. Bernie Madoff's liquidation trustee has begun doling out another $76 million to claimants. And clothing retailer Delta Apparel made a bid to pivot to a wind-down in its bankruptcy that was opposed by tax claimants in Texas.
January 15, 2025
A co-founder of one of the earliest Bernie Madoff feeder funds and his wife have agreed to sell their Florida home and fine art collection, in addition to paying $550,000 to end a 14-year-old, $85 million clawback lawsuit from the Chapter 7 trustee liquidating Madoff's estate and defunct Ponzi investment firm.
November 25, 2024
The trustee liquidating the assets of Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff has agreed to settle its $21.2 million clawback suit against ZCM Asset Holding Co. for $10.6 million, it said in filing in New York bankruptcy court Friday.
June 05, 2024
The trustee for Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme can continue to attempt to claw back funds transferred to French bank BNP Paribas, but an attempt to tack on $88 million in additional transfers to the initial complaint is for the most part a step too far, a New York bankruptcy judge ruled.