By
Kathy Bazoian Phelps
and
Hon. Steven Rhodes (Ret.)
Published by
LexisNexis®
"The Ponzi Book is one-stop shopping for the facts needed to understand the complex fall-out from a collapsed Ponzi scheme as well as the legal strategies that exist and are required to unravel it."
Irving H. Picard,
Trustee of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, LLC
For a review of The Ponzi Book that appeared in the Bankruptcy e-Bulletin published by the Insolvency Law Committee of the Business Law Section, State Bar of California, click here.
Chapter 1
Introduction
Chapter 2
Actual Fraudulent Transfer Claims
Chapter 3
Constructive Fraudulent Transfer Claims
Chapter 4
Defenses to Fraudulent Transfer
and Preference Claims
Chapter 5
Claims to Avoid Preferential Transfers
Chapter 6
Property Interests and Express,
Resulting and Constructive Trust Claims
Chapter 7
Tort and Equitable Claims
Against Insiders and Third Parties
Chapter 8
Deepening Insolvency
Chapter 9
Disgorgement Claims
Against Relief Defendants
Chapter 10
Statutory Claims:
Securities and RICO Violations
Chapter 11
Equitable Subordination
Chapter 12
The Economic Loss Defense
Chapter 13
Standing
Chapter 14
The In Pari Delicto Defense
Chapter 15
Gathering Evidence: Privilege Issues and
Exchanging Evidence with the Government
Chapter 16
Forfeiture Proceedings and Victim
Compensation Through the Criminal Process
Chapter 17
Use of Contempt Proceedings to Recover Assets
Chapter 18
Non-Resident and Foreign Defendants:
Personal Jurisdiction and Service of Process
Chapter 19
Foreign Proceedings and Discovery Abroad
Chapter 20
Allowance of Claims and Distribution Schemes
Chapter 21
Prejudgment Remedies
Chapter 22
Tax Issues Arising in Ponzi Schemes
The Ponzi Book is the only comprehensive resource on the complex legal issues that arise in unwinding Ponzi schemes. No other resource focuses on identifying and analyzing the legal issues arising in Ponzi scheme cases.
The thorough legal analysis presented in The Ponzi Book provides a complete understanding of the competing rights, claims and defenses of all of the parties impacted by a Ponzi scheme. It also covers the administrative procedures that courts and professionals use in Ponzi cases.
Who Can Use The Ponzi Book
The Ponzi Book benefits both practitioners and parties impacted by a Ponzi scheme:
Attorneys for trustees and receivers in Ponzi insolvency proceedings will use The Ponzi Book to administer Ponzi estates, to pursue litigation claims and to distribute funds to claimants.
Attorneys for investors or other defrauded parties will use The Ponzi Book both to pursue all of their clients' claims to recover damages as well as to assert their clients' property interests in insolvency or criminal proceedings.
Attorneys defending brokers, financial institutions, professionals and investors will use The Ponzi Book to assert all possible defenses to the claims against their clients.
The Ponzi Book is also an essential resource for accountants, receivers, bankruptcy trustees, SIPC trustees, financial advisors, brokers, financial institutions, insurance companies, officers, directors, and tax advisors. Government agencies involved in related criminal or forfeiture proceedings will also find exceptional value in The Ponzi Book.
Why The Ponzi Book is Unique
The Ponzi Book is necessary and timely in understanding the high-stakes Ponzi schemes that are increasingly in the news. As the number of defrauded victims continues to grow, substantial litigation seeks to find assets and to make investors whole.
Thousands have been affected by high-profile Ponzi cases such as Bernard Madoff, Allen Stanford, Thomas Petters, Scott Rothstein, Reed Slatkin, Marc Dreier, Patrick Bennett and John Bennet. These cases have involved billions of dollars, tens of thousands of individual defrauded victims, and hundreds or thousands of lawsuits.
But those are just the high-profile cases. In 2009 alone, it is estimated that 150 Ponzi schemes collapsed, causing losses of $16.5 billion. With Ponzi schemes on the rise, claims asserted in the ensuing insolvency proceedings and litigation that follows is also on the rise.
The Ponzi Book is your exclusive resource to find all of the case law to date relating to Ponzi schemes.
What You Will Find in The Ponzi Book
Several chapters of The Ponzi Book are dedicated to the increasingly common fraudulent transfer lawsuits (clawbacks) and preference lawsuits that are filed in Ponzi cases. The Ponzi Book also extensively covers the full range of defenses that investors, brokers and others can assert to those claims.
Additional chapters present detailed discussions of the broad array of litigation claims that can be pursued against any type of defendant with culpability or liability for its involvement in a Ponzi scheme.
Separate chapters are dedicated to the complex legal issues of deepening insolvency, standing, and in pari delicto as they arise in Ponzi litigation. These chapters present these complex issues in understandable language and review the most current decisions on these continually evolving issues.
Because Ponzi schemes usually involve related criminal proceedings, The Ponzi Book also covers Fifth Amendment privilege issues as well as attorney-client privilege issues. It also presents a detailed analysis of what happens to competing claims for assets in parallel insolvency and criminal proceedings.
For those seeking to recover assets, several chapters discuss prejudgment remedies available to freeze assets, contempt proceedings, and service of process issues, both domestically and internationally. Mareva, Anton Piller, and Norwich Pharmacal orders issued in common law jurisdicitions are also covered.
The ultimate end game for claimants and those administering the unwinding of a Ponzi scheme is the claims allowance and distribution process. The Ponzi Book provides a sophisticated and unique review of differing approaches and methodologies available in the claims distribution process.
Finally, The Ponzi Book highlights the recent tax law changes that Ponzi victims and their tax advisors need to know about.
How You Can Use The Ponzi Book
The extensive material in The Ponzi Book is designed to be as accessible as possible:
Where You Can Find The Ponzi Book
LexisNexis, a division of Matthew Bender, is publishing The Ponzi Book in a soft bound volume and in an e-format for handy access. The Ponzi Book will also be available at the LexisNexis on-line store.
© 2022 Kathy Bazoian Phelps and Steven Rhodes