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· 7/22/2010

In Re Fairfield Sentry Ltd.

Citations

  • 440 B.R. 60
  • 2010 Bankr. LEXIS 3789
  • 2010 WL 4455879

How courts have described this case

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  • identifying activities that may constitute an “opportunistic shift to establish COMI,” including “insider exploitation, untoward manipulation, [and] overt thwarting of third party expectations.”
  • indicating the Debtors “were established as vehicles for mainly non-U.S. persons and tax-exempt United States entities to invest with BLMIS”
  • entrusting realization of the Debtors’ assets within the U.S. to the Foreign Representatives
  • identifying concerns and explaining that courts may make a broader assessment of COMI if there has been an “opportunistic shift to establish COMI (i.e., insider exploitation, untoward manipulation, overt thwarting of third party expectations.)”
  • “[A]s the Objectors have advanced evidence in support of their position that New York is the proper COMI, the Court cannot rely solely upon this presumption, but rather must consider all of the relevant evidence.”

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Judges: Burton R. Lifland

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