On Friday, the OTS closed La Jolla Bank, FSB, headquartered in La Jolla, California, and the FDIC was named receiver.
On Friday, the Minnesota Department of Commerce closed St. Stephen State Bank, headquartered in St. Stephens, Minnesota, and the FDIC was named receiver. As receiver, the FDIC entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with First State Bank of St. Joseph, headquartered in St. Joseph, Minnesota, to assume all of the deposits of St. Stephen State Bank.
Yesterday, the bankrupt estate of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. (Lehman) sued Barclays Capital, Inc.
Yesterday, the OCC closed Southern Colorado National Bank, headquartered in Pueblo, Colorado, and the FDIC was named as receiver. As receiver, the FDIC entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with Legacy Bank, headquartered in Wiley, Colorado, to assume all of the deposits of Southern Colorado National Bank for a 1% premium.
Earlier today, First Coweta Bank, headquartered in Newnan, Georgia, was closed by the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance, and the FDIC was named as receiver.
As required by the terms of the emergency assistance provided by Treasury last December, General Motors Corp.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Wellness International Network Ltd. v. Sharif confirms the long-held and common sense belief that “knowing and voluntary consent” is the key to the exercise of judicial authority by a bankruptcy court judge.1 In short, the Supreme Court held that a litigant in a bankruptcy court can consent—expressly or impliedly through waiver—to the bankruptcy court’s final adjudication of claims that the bankruptcy court otherwise lacks constitutional authority to finally decide.
In In re Cook, 2014 Bankr. LEXIS 67 (B.A.P. 8th Cir. Jan.
On June 25, 2013, the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (the “Court”) issued a memorandum decision in the Lehman Brothers SIPA proceeding1 holding that claims asserted by certain repurchase agreement (“repo”) counterparties (the “Representative Claimants”) did not qualify for treatment as customer claims under SIPA.