ALBANY — Despite the relative obscurity of New York’s champerty statute, legislative efforts to amend it have ignited a fierce struggle among major players in the state’s booming market in domestic and international debt.
The ancient doctrine of champerty prohibits the buying and selling of legal claims and, as codified in Judiciary Law �489, it bars investors from purchasing debt obligations “with the intent and for the purpose of bringing an action” to collect.
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