Title 11, BankruptcyRelease 119-102
§1516 Presumptions Concerning Recognition
Title 11 › CHAPTER 15 — ANCILLARY AND OTHER CROSS-BORDER CASES › SUBCHAPTER III — RECOGNITION OF A FOREIGN PROCEEDING AND RELIEF › § 1516
Summary
Court may accept a certificate saying a proceeding and person are foreign, treat supporting documents as genuine without legalization, and assume a registered office or usual residence is the debtor’s main center.
Full Legal Text
Title 11, §1516
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(a)If the decision or certificate referred to in section 1515(b) indicates that the foreign proceeding is a foreign proceeding and that the person or body is a foreign representative, the court is entitled to so presume.
(b)The court is entitled to presume that documents submitted in support of the petition for recognition are authentic, whether or not they have been legalized.
(c)In the absence of evidence to the contrary, the debtor’s registered office, or habitual residence in the case of an individual, is presumed to be the center of the debtor’s main interests.
Legislative History
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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective 180 days after Apr. 20, 2005, and not applicable with respect to cases commenced under this title before such
Effective Date
, except as otherwise provided, see section 1501 of Pub. L. 109–8, set out as an
Effective Date
of 2005 Amendment note under section 101 of this title.
Reference
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Citation
11 U.S.C. § 1516
Title 11, Bankruptcy
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102