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As we’ve previously noted, customers and other creditors of Voyager Digital Holdings face a deadline to file official “proofs of claim” setting forth the amounts they assert that Voyager owes them. The deadline is 5:00 p.m. ET on October 3, 2022. Information regarding the deadline, filing requirements, and procedures is available in the bankruptcy court’s order that established the deadline.

            The court-approved proof of claim form for customers can be found here.

            Proofs of claim can be filed electronically here.…

Continue Reading Voyager Bankruptcy Shows a Smorgasbord of Digital Assets

The bankruptcy court in the Voyager case issued an order authorizing that funds held in two specific accounts (FBO accounts) at Metropolitan Commercial Bank, which are administered by Voyager, are held for the benefit of and belong to Voyager’s customers. As a result of this order, the bank and Voyager may honor customer requests for withdrawals of such cash as of the date Voyager filed for bankruptcy.…

Continue Reading Some Voyager Creditors May Get Cash Back that is Held at Bank

Customers and creditors of Voyager Digital Holdings face a deadline to file official “proofs of claim” setting forth the amounts they assert that Voyager owes them. The deadline is 5:00 p.m. ET on October 3, 2022. Information regarding the deadline, filing requirements, and procedures is available in the bankruptcy court’s order that established the deadline.…

Continue Reading Voyager Creditors—Deadline Set for Filing Bankruptcy Proofs of Claim

The Voyager Digital Holdings bankruptcy cases, along with the Celsius Network cases, provide a unique opportunity for parties to acquire assets and/or operations of each company. The bankruptcy court approved bidding procedures in an order issued in the Voyager cases that outlines the entire process and steps to be followed by anyone interested in submitting a bid. 

In the Celsius Network case, the bankruptcy court hearing on August 8 will consider the Celsius motion to establish a very similar process that will trail Voyager’s sale process by approximately one month.…

Continue Reading Voyager, Celsius, and Possible Bidding Opportunities

As expected (and predicted), the bankruptcy judge in Dallas, Texas granted Mt. Gox’s request for an order of “recognition” that the debtor’s Tokyo insolvency action was a “foreign main proceeding.” She will also allow Mt. Gox’s bankruptcy trustee, Nobuaki Kobayahsi, to act as the “foreign representative” of the debtor in connection with whatever relief it might seek in the Chapter 15 case.
Continue Reading Mt. Gox’s Chapter 15 Case Is Officially Underway

On May 21, the bankruptcy trustee for Mt. Gox advised depositors that the bankruptcy case in Tokyo was proceeding.  The information contained in the email was limited in scope, guarded and of little use in understanding the trustee’s view of how the bankruptcy ultimately may resolve.  …
Continue Reading Mt. Gox Trustee Communicates with the Exchange’s Depositors

On April 28, in the wake of Mt. Gox’s Japanese rehabilitation proceeding having been converted to a liquidation proceeding, a proposal for selling and restarting the Mt. Gox exchange was submitted in the pending class action litigation in Illinois. The proposal was accepted by plaintiffs in the class action litigation before a class had even been certified.
Continue Reading Proposal Made for Restarting the Mt. Gox Exchange

As predicted, the court in Tokyo has ruled that Mt. Gox will be liquidated. An “Announcement of Commencement of Bankruptcy Proceedings” was posted overnight April 24 by the Japanese bankruptcy trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi on the Mt. Gox site to confirm that the company is officially in bankruptcy (liquidation) in Japan.  The Announcement also includes a “Frequently Asked Questions” section to give a very high level overview of the liquidation process.
Continue Reading Mt. Gox to be Liquidated

On April 16, Mt. Gox’s civil rehabilitation proceeding in Tokyo (something similar to a U.S. Chapter 11) was dismissed and the initial stages of a bankruptcy liquidation under Japanese law began. An Interim Administrator (Nobuaki Kobaysahi) has been named until the Japanese court decides whether the liquidation will begin and whether a different Administrator replaces the Interim Administrator. How this situation came to be is an interesting tale.
Continue Reading Mt. Gox Heads Toward Liquidation