October 11, 2024
The fact that former customers of defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX will recover their full claims, plus interest, does not mean they are happy about it, showing that even the best-case outcome in an impossibly complicated bankruptcy can still leave creditors feeling bruised.
October 10, 2024
This week, FTX Trading Ltd. won confirmation of its bankruptcy plan that clears a path for it to start repaying as much as $16.5 billion to creditors, including former customers who had cryptocurrency at the exchange when it unraveled in 2022 under the weight of founder Sam Bankman-Fried's fraud.
October 08, 2024
Former FTX insider Caroline Ellison agreed to give up "substantially all of her assets" and cooperate with the FTX bankruptcy estate in a deal to resolve the claims against her in an adversary proceeding that sought to recover hundreds of millions of dollars from the collapsed crypto exchange's former leadership.
October 07, 2024
A Delaware bankruptcy judge said he would confirm the Chapter 11 reorganization plan of FTX Trading Ltd. after overruling several objections Monday, beginning a process of distributing billions of dollars to customers less than two years after the cryptocurrency exchange collapsed.
October 07, 2024
FTX will start repaying customers using up to $16.5 billion in assets that the fallen cryptocurrency company has recovered since filing for bankruptcy in November 2022, after a Delaware bankruptcy judge blessed FTX's reorganization plan at a hearing Monday.
October 04, 2024
Nearly two years after it collapsed financially, FTX is hoping to secure confirmation of its Chapter 11 plan in Delaware bankruptcy court Monday. The debtor says that under its proposal, the company will repay former customers in full, with interest, for the billions of dollars they lost, but the insolvent cryptocurrency business faces a slew of objections from the U.S. Trustee's Office and others.
October 03, 2024
Beleaguered crypto exchange FTX Trading Ltd. will seek a Delaware bankruptcy judge's approval Monday for the debtor's Chapter 11 plan after a bankruptcy process that has seen its counsel questioned, the legitimacy of its plan challenged and a bevy of disputes settled. At the hearing it will rely on the expertise of a legal team uniting lawyers from Landis Rath & Cobb LLP and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP.
October 01, 2024
FTX CEO John J. Ray III does not have to sit for a deposition requested by Virgin Islands-based LayerZero Labs Ltd. to answer questions about why it was not included in a Chapter 11 settlement with the debtor, a Delaware bankruptcy judge said Tuesday, as FTX pursues confirmation of its bankruptcy plan.
September 30, 2024
Johnson & Johnson and the Justice Department are set to face off in a dispute over whether the consumer products giant was justified in putting a talc unit into bankruptcy in Texas this month, after the U.S. Trustee's Office accused J&J of "forum-shopping" its third Chapter 11 filing.
September 26, 2024
FTX Trading Ltd. has asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge for permission to enact a settlement with plaintiffs and counsel it's facing in multidistrict litigation in Florida, saying the proposed deal would prevent potentially costly legal tussles and bring the plaintiffs on board to support FTX's Chapter 11 plan.