In re Kemsley

MEMORANDUM DECISION DENYING PETITION FOR RECOGNITION OF FOREIGN PROCEEDING

JAMES M. PECK, Bankruptcy Judge.

Introduction

Before the Court is a contested petition for recognition of a London bankruptcy case for an individual debtor. This is the first contested matter involving recognition of an individual’s foreign insolvency case to be decided in the Southern District of New York. The Court needs to find the locus of the center of main interests for this individual and also to determine whether an establishment exists in London for this debtor (as that term in defined in Section 1502(2)). Given…