09 B 39937, 11 A 02198
Upon the Defendant’s motion to dismiss the Chapter 11 Plan Administrator’s adversary proceeding, seeking to avoid and recover as fraudulent transfers lease payments transferred from the Debtor to the Defendant that purportedly were part of fraudulent scheme, held: Based on a relationship between the party that received notice of the Original Complaint and the Defendant, and the Defendant’s past relationship with the Debtor, the Defendant should have known that it was the proper party and failed to identify itself until after the expiration of the statute of limitations. The Second Amended Complaint, adding the Defendant satisfied Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(c) and thus related back to the Original Complaint for purposes of satisfying the two-year statute of limitations imposed by 11 U.S.C. § 546.  Motion to dismiss denied.