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| January 01, 2004 | Borges, Wanda | COPYRIGHT 2004 National Association of Credit Management. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

A major victory has recently been won by 25 credit grantors who ere named as defendants in preference actions in the American Pad and Paper case pending in Delaware. As is typical in a large case, hundreds of adversary proceedings to recover alleged preferential transfers were brought.

The Standard Fare

The moment a credit grantor receives a complaint to recover an alleged preferential transfer, the typical and proper reaction is to determine whether or not that preference action can be defeated under one or more of the provisions of [section] 547(e). The three commonly used defenses are:

1. That such transfer was (A) intended by the debtor and ...

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