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They moved the brand to the Cayman Islands. Then filed for bankruptcy.

J.Crew owed $1.7 billion in debt. Before the filing, private equity moved the brand offshore. The creditors got what was left.

Blockbuster had 9,000 stores. One phone call ended everything.

Netflix offered to sell itself for $50 million. Blockbuster laughed them out of the room. What happened next took fifteen years.

They moved the money before the company died. The courts came for it anyway.

Fraudulent conveyance is the legal mechanism that lets bankruptcy courts reach back in time and claw assets back. Here is how it works—and how executives get caught.