---
kind: "section"
citation: "11 U.S.C. § 1523"
title: "11"
title_heading: "Bankruptcy"
number: "1523"
heading: "Actions to avoid acts detrimental to creditors"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/11/1523"
units:
  - "Chapter 15 — Ancillary and Other Cross-Border Cases"
  - "Subchapter III — Recognition of a Foreign Proceeding and Relief"
---

# §1523. Actions to avoid acts detrimental to creditors

- (a) Upon [recognition](/usc/11/1502.md?p=7) of a [foreign proceeding](/usc/11/101.md?p=23), the [foreign representative](/usc/11/101.md?p=24) has standing in a case concerning the [debtor](/usc/11/1502.md?p=1) pending under another chapter of this title to initiate actions under sections [522](/usc/11/522.md), [544](/usc/11/544.md), [545](/usc/11/545.md), [547](/usc/11/547.md), [548](/usc/11/548.md), [550](/usc/11/550.md), [553](/usc/11/553.md), and [724(a)](/usc/11/724.md?p=a).
- (b) When a [foreign proceeding](/usc/11/101.md?p=23) is a [foreign nonmain proceeding](/usc/11/1502.md?p=5), the court must be satisfied that an action under [subsection (a)](#a) relates to assets that, under [United States](/usc/11/101.md?p=55) law, should be administered in the [foreign nonmain proceeding](/usc/11/1502.md?p=5).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 109–8, title VIII, § 801(a), Apr. 20, 2005, 119 Stat. 142.)

## Notes

### 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.