Shapeways, Inc. – Preference and Fraudulent Transfer Defense Lawyer

On June 25, 2026, Alfred T. Giuliano, as the chapter 7 trustee for the bankruptcy estates of Shapeways, Inc., Shapeways Holdings, Inc., and Linear Mold & Engineering, LLC, began filing complaints seeking to avoid and recover payments made during the 90 day period prior to the bankruptcy filing, as preferential under Section 547 and/or fraudulent under Section 548 of the Bankruptcy Code.

Approximately 36 such complaints have been filed so far.

The bankruptcy case and these adversary actions are before Judge Brendan L. Shannon.

The Debtors in these cases are Shapeways, Inc., Shapeways Holdings, Inc., and Linear Mold & Engineering, LLC.

For more information as to defenses that may be available to these avoidance actions, please see our page on Preference Defense Litigation and please see our page on Defense of Fraudulent Transfer Actions.

Common Defenses in Preference Actions

The United States Bankruptcy Code provides many affirmative defenses to preference actions, contained within Section 547(c). For example, the most common defenses that may be available to a Defendant under Section 547(c) may include:

• the transfer was a contemporaneous exchange for new value given to the debtor (i.e., the debtor received something of value in exchange for the transfer); 11 U.S.C. §547(c)(1);
• after such transfer, Defendant gave new value to or for the benefit of the debtor (i.e., the Defendant extended additional credit to the Debtor after receiving the transfer) 11 U.S.C. §547(c)(4); or
• the transfer was in payment of a debt incurred by the debtor in the ordinary course of business or financial affairs of the debtor and the recipient (i.e., Defendant made the transfer under ordinary business terms). 11 U.S.C. §547(c)(2).

Common Defenses in Fraudulent Transfer Cases

Among the more common defenses that may be available are that you provided reasonably equivalent value for a transfer that is now alleged to be constructively fraudulent or in good faith provided value to the debtor in exchange for the transfer. Other defenses may be available to you by showing that the Transfer does not fit the statutory predicates.

The following Adversary Proceedings were filed in the bankruptcy of Shapeways, Inc., Case No. 24-11488-BLS on June 25 and June 26, 2026:

26-50540-BLS Giuliano v. Advance Capital Solutions LLC d/b/a ACS Factors
26-50543-BLS Giuliano v. Advanced Composites Inc.
26-50545-BLS Giuliano v. Chase Plastic Services, Inc.
26-50547-BLS Giuliano v. Consumers Energy Company
26-50551-BLS Giuliano v. Royal Bank of Canada
26-50553-BLS Giuliano v. Texture Solutions Unlimited LLC
26-50554-BLS Giuliano v. T.M. Smith Tool International Corp.
26-50561-BLS Giuliano v. Prime Packaging Solutions, LLC
26-50562-BLS Giuliano v. ITB Packaging, LLC
26-50563-BLS Giuliano v. Alberto Recchi
26-50564-BLS Giuliano v. Amazon Web Services, Inc.
26-50565-BLS Giuliano v. AON Risk Insurance Services West, Inc.
26-50566-BLS Giuliano v. Moderno Industrial, LLC D/B/A Magnum Manufacturing
26-50567-BLS Giuliano v. Avalara, Inc.
26-50568-BLS Giuliano v. Cardinal Integrated Technologies Inc.
26-50569-BLS Giuliano v. Cigna Healthcare, Inc.
26-50570-BLS Giuliano v. CriticalRiver Inc.
26-50571-BLS Giuliano v. Datasite LLC
26-50572-BLS Giuliano v. demandDrive LLC
26-50573-BLS Giuliano v. FreeFORM Manufacturing, LLC
26-50574-BLS Giuliano v. The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
26-50575-BLS Giuliano v. 823 Holdings, LLC d/b/a HC Management Solutions
26-50576-BLS Giuliano v. Gregory Kress
26-50577-BLS Giuliano v. Imaginarium Jewel Tech LLP
26-50578-BLS Giuliano v. Joseph Andrew Ned
26-50579-BLS Giuliano v. Marcum LLP
26-50580-BLS Giuliano v. Microsoft Online, Inc.
26-50581-BLS Giuliano v. Navan, Inc.
26-50582-BLS Giuliano v. Papaya Global, Inc.
26-50583-BLS Giuliano v. Prototype Hubs Ltd.
26-50584-BLS Giuliano v. Resolved LLC
26-50585-BLS Giuliano v. Spray Booth Products, Inc.
26-50586-BLS Giuliano v. Stay Clean Solutions, LLC
26-50587-BLS Giuliano v. Stretto, Inc.
26-50588-BLS Giuliano v. The Advance Group
26-50589-BLS Giuliano v. WithumSmith + Brown, P.C.