---
kind: "section"
citation: "11 U.S.C. § 1524"
title: "11"
title_heading: "Bankruptcy"
number: "1524"
heading: "Intervention by a foreign representative"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/11/1524"
units:
  - "Chapter 15 — Ancillary and Other Cross-Border Cases"
  - "Subchapter III — Recognition of a Foreign Proceeding and Relief"
---

# §1524. Intervention by a foreign representative


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) may intervene in any proceedings in a [State](/usc/11/101.md?p=52) or Federal court in the [United States](/usc/11/101.md?p=55) in which the [debtor](/usc/11/1502.md?p=1) is a party.


## 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.