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  2. What to know about financial insolvency

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    Solvency vs. insolvency. Being “solvent” means you have more assets than liabilities. In other words, you have enough cash (or can sell assets of value to get that cash) to pay expenses, bills ...

  3. Bankruptcy in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Originally, bankruptcy in the United States, as nearly all matters directly concerning individual citizens, was a subject of state law. However, there were several short-lived federal bankruptcy laws before the Act of 1898: the Bankruptcy Act of 1800, [3] which was repealed in 1803; the Act of 1841, [4] which was repealed in 1843; and the Act of 1867, [5] which was amended in 1874 [6] and ...

  4. Insolvency - Wikipedia

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    Cash-flow insolvency involves a lack of liquidity to pay debts as they fall due. Balance sheet insolvency involves having negative net assets—where liabilities exceed assets. Insolvency is not a synonym for bankruptcy, which is a determination of insolvency made by a court of law with resulting legal orders intended to resolve the insolvency.

  5. List of largest United States–based law firms by head count

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    Palo Alto, California: 1267 808 328 23 King & Spalding: Atlanta: 1261 565 488 $1,138 24 ... List of largest United Kingdom-based law firms by revenue;

  6. Securities Investor Protection Corporation - Wikipedia

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    Should that process fail, the insolvent firm will be liquidated. [12] In order to state a claim, the investor is required to show that their economic loss arose because of the insolvency of their broker-dealer and not because of fraud, [13] misrepresentation, [14] or bad investment decisions. In certain circumstances, securities or cash may not ...

  7. Solvency - Wikipedia

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    Solvency, in finance or business, is the degree to which the current assets of an individual or entity exceed the current liabilities of that individual or entity. [1] Solvency can also be described as the ability of a corporation to meet its long-term fixed expenses and to accomplish long-term expansion and growth. [ 2 ]

  8. Financial distress - Wikipedia

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    Financial distress is a term in corporate finance used to indicate a condition when promises to creditors of a company are broken or honored with difficulty.If financial distress cannot be relieved, it can lead to bankruptcy.

  9. List of largest law firms by revenue - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the world's largest law firms based on the AmLaw Global 200 Rankings. [1] Firms marked with "(verein)" are structured as a Swiss association.