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Introduction
In anticipation of the preference debate at the upcoming NACM Credit Congress, it is time to once again return to the PREFERENCE ZONE. Credit grantors cringe when they wander into the PREFERENCE ZONE, where they risk the disgorgement of payments first received from hard-pressed customers within 90 days of their bankruptcy filing and then claimed as preferences.
One of the most frequently invoked defenses to a preference claim is the new value defense. A trustee or debtor-in-possession cannot recover a payment as a preference where the creditor had extended new value in the form of credit sales of goods or services following the payment. ...