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Defending a preference claim under the solvency defense: what the vendor must prove.(Credit Column)

Business Credit

| July 01, 2003 | Blakeley, Scott | COPYRIGHT 2003 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

Your customer files Chapter 11. Two years later, you receive a demand letter from the litigation trustee demanding return of payments within the 90 days of the customer's filing. You consider the common preference defenses--contemporaneous exchange, ordinary course of business and new value. You review the debtor's most recently audited financial statements which covered a portion of the preference period. The public financial statements show that the debtor was apparently solvent during this period. You consider the preference defense of solvency, which provides that if the debtor was solvent at the time of the preferential transfer, the vendor may have an absolute ...

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