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(Reuters) - Four hedge funds appealed on Tuesday a ruling in the Washington Mutual Inc (Other OTC:WAMUQ.PK - News) bankruptcy that found viable claims they had engaged in insider trading, an opinion one fund called a "gross injustice."
The hedge funds sought an expedited appeal of a ruling earlier this month by Delaware Bankruptcy Judge Mary Walrath, in which she rejected Washington Mutual's plan to distribute $7 billion to creditors for a second time.
"The opinion rewrote the rules for these cases retroactively -- invoking a series of new legal standards that would radically remake federal securities and bankruptcy law," said Aurelius Capital Management LP, one of the four hedge funds, in court papers.
In addition to rejecting the plan, Walrath also ruled that shareholders, who were expected to get nothing in the reorganization, presented a viable claim that the hedge funds engaged in insider trading.
Shareholders have accused the hedge funds of using information they gleaned from their role in helping draft Washington Mutual's reorganization plan to make big profits trading the company's securities.
Walrath granted shareholders standing to pursue claims against the hedge funds, with the goal of preventing them from collecting the roughly $2 billion they are owed by Washington Mutual.
The four hedge funds -- Owl Creek Asset Management LP, Appaloosa Management LP, Centerbridge Partners LP and Aurelius -- have denied the allegations.
The funds specialize in buying large blocks of securities issued by bankrupt companies for pennies on the dollar. The funds then hire top-notch lawyers to try to influence or even control the reorganization process in a bid to beef up their payout.
The funds often band together in ad hoc committees with large cumulative positions in a company's debt. Walrath found such committees have a fiduciary duty to other creditors, a finding legal experts said could make it harder for large bankrupt companies to reorganize.
In their papers, the funds also said the ruling could make bankruptcy courts a favored venue for bringing types of securities litigation that has been criticized as frivolous and which Congress has been trying to discourage.
Washington Mutual has lingered in bankruptcy since September 2008, when regulators seized its savings and loan operation in the biggest bank failure in U.S. history.
The banking business was immediately sold to JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE:JPM - News) for $1.88 billion and the holding company filed for bankruptcy the next day.
The case is In re Washington Mutual, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Delaware, No. 08-12229.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...ross-rb-2680487007.html?x=0&.v=1
Gruß
Dude44
In dem zum Appeal gehörigen "Memorandum of Law" schießen die Hedgies ganz schön gegen THJMW. Dabei gefällt mir dieser Satz am besten: "Ours is a nation of laws, not judges."
Ja, ja, die Hedge Fonds als Hüter von Recht und Ordnung... 
Nun stellen sich mir folgende Fragen:
Ist es klug, dass sich die SNH's nun gegen Walrath stellen?
Machen sie das alles, um eine bessere Position gegenüber dem EC in der Mediation zu haben (frei nach dem Motto: Wenn ihr euch nicht bewegt, ziehen wird das durch...)?
Oder sind sie mittlerweile dermaßen von ihrer Arroganz zerfressen, dass sie wirklich glauben, hier ohne ein blaues Auge davonkommen zu können?
Hedge fund investors that supported Washington Mutual Inc.'s reorganization plan are appealing a Delaware bankruptcy court judge's rejection of it.
The plan is based on the settlement of several lawsuits filed after federal regulators seized WaMu's Seattle-based flagship bank in 2008 and sold its assets to JPMorgan Chase in the nation's largest bank failure ever.
The judge rejected the proposed plan this month for a second time, saying there could be merit to the claims of some equity holders that the hedge funds had traded on inside information they obtained in court. The hedge funds have denied the allegations; they filed notices of appeal on Tuesday.
The judge also said the parties must enter mediation before the equity holders can seek to have the hedge funds' bankruptcy claims disallowed.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/...kruptcy.html?syndication=rss
Gruß
Dude44
Vielen Dank für die tollen Übersetzungen und die damit verbundene Arbeit die ihr euch gemacht habt! Ganz großes Kino!
Unsere Chancen als Stammaktionäre standen wirklich noch nie so gut.......ich bin sehr gespannt auf nächste Woche und dem Beginn der Mediation....
Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Noteholders of Washington Mutual Inc., the former owner of the biggest U.S. bank to fail, is seeking a court ruling to overturn a judge’s rejection of a reorganization plan that would pay them billions of dollars.
The noteholders, four hedge funds that helped negotiate the plan, also seek to reverse a decision by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Mary Walrath in Wilmington, Delaware, that may force them to face a lawsuit accusing them of insider trading. The hedge funds filed papers yesterday asking Walrath to allow their appeals to go forward while they attend court-ordered mediation.
Giving shareholders of WaMu the right to sue the hedge funds “radically distorts securities and bankruptcy law and inflicts a gross injustice,” Aurelius Capital Management LP, the hedge fund run by attorney Mark Brodsky, said in court records.
Walrath rejected WaMu’s reorganization plan for the second time on Sept. 14, in part because she said the plan pays a higher interest rate than is legally allowed to some WaMu noteholders, including the hedge funds. Walrath also allowed shareholders, including those who are getting nothing under the plan, to try to prove their allegations of insider trading in a lawsuit that she authorized them to file.
Bank Takeover
WaMu, based in Seattle, filed for bankruptcy on Sept. 26, 2008, the day after its banking unit was taken over by regulators and sold to JPMorgan Chase & Co. for $1.9 billion. Washington Mutual Bank had more than 2,200 branches and $188 billion in deposits.
The hedge funds that hold different sets of WaMu bonds and convertible securities, shareholders and other creditors fought throughout the case over how to divide the cash, tax refunds and new stock to be issued in the only part of WaMu that will survive bankruptcy, a small reinsurance company.
WaMu has $4 billion in cash and more than $3 billion in tax refunds and other assets to distribute to creditors if the company rewrites its plan and wins Walrath’s approval, or if a higher court overturns her rejection of the current plan.
The four hedge funds accused by shareholders of receiving inside information are Aurelius Capital Management, Centerbridge Partners LP, Appaloosa Management LP and Owl Creek Asset Management LP. All four have denied using any material, non- public information to buy or sell WaMu securities.
Mediation Ordered
Walrath granted a request by a committee of shareholders to sue the hedge funds for their conduct during the bankruptcy. She said that potential lawsuit can’t immediately go forward, ordering shareholders and supporters of the rejected plan to mediation.
She rejected allegations that the hedge funds, known as the settlement noteholders, controlled WaMu and that the entire plan was proposed in bad faith. She also upheld the settlement among JPMorgan, WaMu and the hedge funds that serves as the foundation for the reorganization plan.
The company, the shareholders and the hedge funds will return to court next month to talk about how to proceed with mediation.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-09-28/...organization-plan.html
Gruß
Dude44
Moin.
Es wird immer verzwickter hier. Ok, die 4 Hedgies feuern also zurück.
Auszug aus der Aurelius-Motion:
www.kccllc.net/documents/0812229/0812229110927000000000014.pdf
Aurelius Capital Management, ..., hereby submits this motion (the “Motion”) pursuant to
28 U.S.C. § 158(a) and Rule 8003 of the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure (the
“Bankruptcy Rules”) for an order granting leave to appeal the order (the “Order”) and related
opinion (the “Opinion”) (copies of which are attached hereto as Exhibits A and B, respectively)
entered by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (the “Bankruptcy
Court”) on September 13, 2011 denying confirmation of the Debtors’ modified sixth amended
plan of reorganization (the “Modified Sixth Amended Plan” or the “Plan”) and authorizing the
Official Committee of Equity Security Holders of Washington Mutual, Inc. (the “Equity
Committee”) to commence and prosecute an action against Aurelius and certain other creditors
on behalf of the Debtors’ estates, and in support thereof respectfully states as follows...
Motion for an order granting leave to appeal the order and related opinion
bedeutet für mich, dass
a) Aurelius Berufung an einem höheren Gericht gegen die Opinion einlegen will
b) das Mary diese Berufungsmöglichkeit erst genehmigen muß?
Sehe ich das so richtig, oder lieg ich völlig falsch?
neversurrender
Ist es klug, dass sich die SNH's nun gegen Walrath stellen?
Machen sie das alles, um eine bessere Position gegenüber dem EC in der Mediation zu haben (frei nach dem Motto: Wenn ihr euch nicht bewegt, ziehen wird das durch...)?
Oder sind sie mittlerweile dermaßen von ihrer Arroganz zerfressen, dass sie wirklich glauben, hier ohne ein blaues Auge davonkommen zu können?
Meine Meinung:
Wenn die Hedgies bei der Mediation ein entsprechendes Angebot machen würden, welches das EC akzeptiert, dann wäre das auch so etwas wie eine Art Schuldeingeständis. Zwar kein Urteil in Sachen IT, aber immerhin bliebe der fade Beigeschmack, dass die HF doch Dreck am Stecken haben.
Mit der Folge, dass in zukünftigen, ähnlich gelagerten Fällen dieser Fall immer wieder als Prädezenzfall präsentiert werden würde.
Hier geht es um viel mehr für die Hedgies.
Sie müssen mit einer sauberen Weste hier rauskommen. Ansonsten werden sie es zukünftig sehr schwer haben, diese jahrelang durchgeführte Taktik, sich in Konkursfälle einzukaufen und dann selber die Richtung anzugeben, weiterzuführen.
Sie pokern deshalb so hoch, weil sie fürchten, dass diese Goldgrube für sie in Zukunft weg sein wird!
neversurrender
Den Hedgefunds geht es an den Kragen und das wissen sie - vorallem AURELIUS geht gerne einen separaten Weg.
Ein leidiger Versuch, ihre Weste nicht weiter zu beflecken, um die dann jahrelang wieder weiss waschen zu müssen. Jedoch wird ein HF schon mit einer dreckigen Weste geboren.
Sie sind jetzt das personifizierte "Verbrecherische" in der causa WAMU. Der Pferdefuß. Das schwächste Glied, auf das jetzt alle hintreten zu versuchen.
Dramatisch für die HF`s - Klasse gemacht von SUSI & Nate........
sind erstmal unser Anfang.....die Vorspeise sozusagen.....wir wollen JPM+FDIC+Co. doch nicht schon vor dem Hauptgang vom Tisch aufstehn lassen *g* Geschweige denn vor dem Dessert *ggg*
Ich bin da etwas anderer Meinung als Du: Folgt man Deiner Logik, so war bereits das erste Settlement-Angebot, das das EC schließlich abgelehnt hat, eine Art "Schuldeingeständnis" der SNH's. Eine Mediation ist dazu da, einen Konsens zu erzielen. Das könnte man denen nicht vorwerfen. Schließlich würde ein Erfolg den ganzen Prozess beenden und evtl. einen mehrjährigen, kostspieligen Rechtsstreit vermeiden. Und ich gehe jede Wette ein, dass das bei einer erfolgreichen Mediation auch das Argument der Hedgies sein würde. Selbstverständlich werden sie sich niemals "schuldig" bekennen. Im Übrigen denke ich, dass Walrath mit der erneuten Ablehnung des POR bereits eine Art Präzedenzfall geschaffen hat. Alles wie immer IMHO. ;-)
They are telling JMW that other creditors were using the same information, that wasn't public, to trade on. Better for us:)
investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx
And they also blame the Debtors for not releasing the information to the public.
"The very structure of the Confidentiality Agreements, requiring the Debtors at the end of the Confidentiality Periods to publicly disclose any material nonpublic information provided, reflects that the parties understood and expected that the Settlement Noteholders would resume unrestricted trading once those agreements terminated."
investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx
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