Court denied parties' cross-motions on fraudulent transfer and alter ego claims where there were genuine issues of material fact regarding whether transfers could fall under definition of fraudulent transfers and whether transfers were undertaken for legitimate purposes.

Bankruptcy court denied a motion to disqualify the firm that served as lead counsel for a liquidating trust, because the firm had implemented a screen with respect to an attorney who had joined the firm.

Court granted ex parte application for discovery for use in foreign proceedings where arbitration established by international treaty qualified as a foreign proceeding and where parties seeking to quash subpoenas failed to show the discovery would be inadmissible in foreign proceedings or that those proceedings had already denied similar discovery demands.

Because a precautionary security interest could be created simultaneously with the assignment of pledged collateral, indentured parties who received the assignment granted them the beneficial interests of the property, such that the owners of the trusts that acquired the property owed the indentured parties fiduciary duties through the owners' control over the trusts.

Fraudulent misrepresentation claims failed due to anti-reliance provision in asset purchase agreement where sophisticated parties expressly limited representations and reliance to written notice of customer terminations.

Counsel for trusts lacked authority to sign proposed consent judgment where trust agreements expressly authorized owner trustee as the sole entity to bind the trusts.