Legal Opinion
Maxwell Communication Corp. v. National Westminster Bank Plc (In Re Maxwell Communication Corp.)
United States Bankruptcy Court, S.D. New York
Decided August 10, 1994No. 18-37066PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION ON MOTIONS TO DISMISS
TINA L. BROZMAN, Bankruptcy Judge.
When filed, the insolvency case of Maxwell Communications Corporation pic (MCC) was unique, MCC, an English corporation, having filed a chapter 11 petition in this court followed immediately by a petition for administration in the High Court of Justice in London. What was so unusual about this is that both cases were and remained, through each court’s approval of a joint plan of reorganization and scheme of arrangement, primary proceedings under the laws of the respective nations. Not a lot of imagination is needed to predict that…
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