{"id":"court_ctb_3255_0","court":"CTB","case_no":"22-50073","doc_number":3255,"sub_number":0,"doc_type":"ORDER","filed_date":"2024-06-18","title":"UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT BRIDGEPORT DIVISION |                      | o wo and and and and","summary_zh":"重新审议并修改此前裁定（ECF 3244）的动议 —— Ho Wan Kwok 破产案（郭文贵 / Guo Wengui / Miles Guo），CTB 22-50073 ECF #3255（2024-06-18立案）。第 11 章受托人 Luc Despins 申请修改法院于 2024 年 6 月 12 日签署的清算 VCTR 股票及收益分配裁定，补入此前提交时疏漏的两个段落，包括受托人在收到净收益后 5 个工作日内提交报告以及美林证券（Merrill Lynch）的免责条款。","summary_en":"Motion to Reconsider and Amend Prior Order (ECF No. 3244) — In re Ho Wan Kwok (Miles Guo / Guo Wengui), CTB 22-50073 ECF #3255 (filed 2024-06-18). Chapter 11 Trustee Luc Despins moves to amend the June 12, 2024 order approving the liquidation of VCTR shares and proceeds distribution, requesting to restore two ordinal paragraphs inadvertently omitted from the proposed order regarding reporting requirements for net proceeds within 5 business days and Merrill Lynch liability protections.","body_en":"# UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT BRIDGEPORT DIVISION\n\n|                      | o wo and and and and and suit for has but have not the are now and and and and any and |                         |\n|----------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------|\n|                      |                                                                                        |                         |\n| In re:               |                                                                                        | Chapter 11              |\n|                      |                                                                                        |                         |\n| HO WAN KWOK, et al.1 |                                                                                        | Case No. 22-50073 (JAM) |\n|                      |                                                                                        |                         |\n| Debtor.              |                                                                                        | (Jointly Administered)  |\n|                      | 1                                                                                      |                         |\n\n# MOTION TO RECONSIDER AND AMEND PRIOR ORDER OF THIS COURT (ECF NO. 3244) APPROVING LIQUIDATION OF VCTR SHARES, DISTRIBUTION OF PROCEEDS, AND RELATED RELIEF TO INCLUDE TWO ORDINAL PARAGRAPHS MISTAKENLY OMITTED FROM THE PROPOSED ORDER SUBMITTED FOR COURT CONSIDERATION ON JUNE 11, 2024 AND ENDORSED BY THE COURT ON JUNE 12, 2024\n\nLuc A. Despins (hereinafter, the Trustee), in his capacity as Chapter 11 Trustee of Ho Wan Kwok (the \"Debtor\"), hereby moves to amend (the \"Motion to Amend\") this Court's January 12, 2024 Order Pursuant to Sections 105(a), 363(b), 541, and 542 of the Bankruptcy Code Approving Liquidation of VCTR Shares, Distribution Proceeds, and Related Relief (ECF No. 3244) to include two ordinal paragraphs that were inadvertently and mistakenly omitted from the form of order submitted by Trustee to the Court and subsequently entered in this case. In support of this motion, Trustee states the following grounds.\n\n<sup>1</sup> The Debtors in these chapter 11 cases are Ho Wan Kwok (also known as Guo Wengui, Miles Guo, and Miles Kwok, as well as numerous other aliases) (last four digits of tax identification number: 9595), Genever Holdings I.L.C (last four digits of tax identification number: 8202) and Genever Holdings Corporation. The mailing address for the Trustee, Genever Holdings LLC, and the Genever Holdings Corporation is Paul Hastings LLP, 200 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10166 c/o Luc A. Despins, as Trustee for the Estate of Ho Wan Kwok (solely for purposes of notices and communications).\n\n## Background and Relevant Facts\n\n1. VCTR Shares, Distribution of Proceeds, and Related Relief' (the \"Original Motion\") relating to this Chapter 11 Estate's interest, including cash and securities held in a Merrill Lynch account, in the private equity fund known as Reverence Capital Partners Opportunities Fund I (Cayman) L.P. (the \"Reverence Fund\"). See ECF No. 3203. Attached to Trustee's Original Motion was a proposed order (the \"Initial Proposed Order\"): (i) authorizing liquidation of the VCTR securities held by the Reverence Fund and distribution of the proceeds, as well other distributions due or to become due on account of this Estate's interest in the Reverence Fund, to the Trustee; (ii) addressing the process and procedures for implementing and reporting on the disposition; (iii) providing certain safeguards to parties engaged in the liquidation and distributions; and (iv) providing for this Court's continuing jurisdiction over matters arising from or related to the implementation, interpretation and enforcement of the order.\n\n2. hearing on the Original Motion for June 10, 2024, and directing that service be made by May 28, 2024 with objections, if any, to be filed by June 6, 2024.\n\n3. Trustee and Merrill Lynch, the Trustee filed a \"Notice of Revised Proposed Order\", with said order (the \"Revised Proposed Order\") attached. ECF No. 3212. The Revised Proposed Order added the following two (2) ordinal paragraphs at the request of the Office of the United States Trustee and Merrill Lynch, respectively, to the Trustee's Initial Proposed Order:\n\nORDERED, that within five (5) business days of receipt of the Net Proceeds. the Trustee shall file a report in the Chapter 11 case disclosing ( i ) the date on which the VCTR shares were sold, (ii) the sale price of the VCTR shares, (iii) the\n\namount of the Gross Proceeds, (iv) the amount of the Expenses deducted, and the amount of the Net Proceeds received by the Trustee; and it is further\n\nORDERED, that Merrill Lynch shall not have liability for actions taken in compliance with this order; And it is further\n\nIn all other respects, the Revised Proposed Order was identical in substance to the Initial Proposed Order as submitted with the Original Motion.\n\n4. On May 28, 2024, Trustee filed a Certificate of Service confirming timely service of the Original Motion (ECF 3203), the Order on Motion to Expedite Hearing (ECF 3211) and the Notice of Revised Proposed Order (ECF 3212) upon all parties entitled to receive service. See ECF No. 3217.\n\n5. objection to Trustee's Original Motion. ECF No. 3234. Lamp's objection was addressed solely to its assertion that the order granting the relief contemplated by the Original Motion should specify in detail the scope of Lamp Capital's rights should it be successful in its pending appeal of the judgment entered by this Court in Despins, Trustee v. Lamp Capital LLC, et al, Adversary Proceeding 23-05023 (finding Lamp to be the alter-ego of the debtor in this Chapter 11 debtor case and any property held by Lamp to be property of this Chapter 11 Estate.) (the \"Lamp Adversary\").\n\n6. Motion and Lamp's limited objection. Present were counsel representing the Office of the United States Trustee, the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors, the creditor Pacific Alliance Asia Opportunity Fund, Lamp Capital, the Reverence Fund, and Merrill Lynch, as well as the Trustee and his counsel.\n\n7. At the hearing, the Trustee recounted the Estate's recent discovery of the assets that were the subject of the Original Motion and the arrangements negotiated with the Reverence Fund and Merrill Lynch for liquidation of those assets. Trustee further observed that certain minor revisions to the proposed order to allow Trustee for the exercise of reasonable discretion regarding the timing of stock disposition would be both prudent and advantageous to the Estate. With respect to Lamp Capital's limited objection, Trustee stated that he had no objection to including in the order a provision that reserved in general whatever rights and remedies were available to Lamp Capital in the event it prevailed in its pending appeal of the judgment rendered against it in the Lamp Adversary, but opposed Lamp Capital's apparent desire 2 to characterize, and essentially fix in advance, the specific legal effect of any favorable appellate ruling, irrespective of whether such ruling was limited in scope, conditional, or non-final.\n\n8. J Lamp Capital conceded that it had not obtained a stay of the judgment against it in the Lamp Adversary and asserted that it was not seeking to impede liquidation of the securities in question or the turnover to and use by the Estate of the subject assets. Nonetheless, it contended that any reservation of rights relating to its appeal of the decision in the Lamp Adversary must articulate those rights in specific terms as defined by it.\n\n9. After hearing argument, the Court determined that the Original Motion should be granted, subject to entry of an appropriate order. The Court directed Trustee\n\n<sup>2</sup> Attached as Exhibit A to Lamp Capital's limited objection was a blackline of the Original Proposed Order reflecting Lamp's proposed revisions to that form of order.\n\nand Lamp Capital to submit for the Court's consideration, by 5:00 p.m. the next day, June 11, 2024, either a joint proposed order or, if they were unable to agree, competing orders.\n\n10. Trustee and Lamp Capital were unable to agree on the form of order, and competing orders (ECF Nos. 3240 and 3241, respectively) were submitted by the parties. The Trustee's form of order reflected the changes generally described by the Trustee at the hearing (i.e., respecting the \"sale trigger\" language and a general reservation of such rights as the parties may have with respect to the Lamp Adversary). Lamp Capital proposed more specific reservation of rights language.\n\n11. On June 12, 2024, the Court entered its order (ECF No. 3244) granting the Original Motion in the form of order submitted by the Trustee.\n\n12. Subsequently, it was brought to Trustee's attention by the Office of the United States Trustee that the Order endorsed by the Court did not reflect the ordinal paragraph requested by the U.S. Trustee's office (i.e., respecting reporting the results of the stock sale) that had been incorporated into the Revised Order submitted by Trustee on May 23, 2024 (ECF No. 3212).\n\n13. Upon investigation, counsel for the Trustee realized that, in preparing a new proposed order to address the matters discussed at the June 10 hearing (i.e., the revised \"sale trigger\" and the reservation of rights) for submission to the Court on June 11, he had inadvertently marked up a Microsoft Word document reflecting the earlier, Initial Proposed Order instead of the subsequent Revised Proposed Order. In consequence, the two paragraphs3 that had been added at the request of the Office of the United States Trustee and Merrill Lynch were unintentionally omitted from of\n\n<sup>3</sup> The full text of the omitted paragraphs is set forth in Paragraph 3 hereinabove.\n\norder submitted to the Court for its consideration. Counsel promptly telephoned counsel for each of the Office of the United States Trustee and Merrill Lynch to apologize for the error and to indicate that he would seek appropriate relief.\n\n## Discussion and Relief Requested\n\n14. Trustee submits that relief in the form of entry of an amended order that includes the two omitted paragraphs is warranted here.\n\n15. As a threshold matter, it should be appreciated that the omitted paragraphs provide for additional transparency in reporting the results of the contemplated liquidation and reasonable protections for parties required to implement the proposed transactions. They are, therefore, reasonable and appropriate in substance.\n\n16. Moreover, the provisions are demonstrably uncontroversial. All parties entitled to service of Trustee's underlying May 21, 2024 Original Motion were in fact served with a copy of the Original Motion, the Notice of Hearing, and the Revised Proposed Order containing the two omitted paragraphs. See ECF No. 3217 (Certificate of Service). The only objection to the Original Motion was that of Lamp Capital, whose limited objection did not in any way implicate the matters referenced in the omitted paragraphs. Accordingly, all interested parties were on notice of the specific provisions that had been added to the operative proposed order at the request of the Office of the United States Trustee and Merrill Lynch. No objection was raised to those provisions.\n\n17. Ample legal authority exists for the Court to grant the requested relief. First, the Court's June 12 Order specified, at page 4, that the \"... Court shall retain jurisdiction with respect to all matters arising from or related to the implementation, interpretation, and enforcement of this Order,\" an express acknowledgment of the\n\nCourt's inherent power to reconsider, modify or vacate the order. See, e.g., In re Renaissance Stone Works, L.L.C., 373 B.R. 817, 822 (E.D. Mich. 2007) (under 11 U.S.C. \\$ 105(a), bankruptcy courts may, sua sponte, exercise their inherent power to reconsider, modify or vacate prior orders).\n\n18. Apart from that, Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(1), made applicable in bankruptcy cases pursuant to Bankruptcy Rule 9024, provides that a court may on \"just terms\" relieve a party or its legal representative from a final judgment, order or proceeding for reason of mistake, inadvertence, surprise or excusable neglect. Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b)(1). Here, the omission of two salutary, uncontroversial, and unobjected-to paragraphs contained in the duly noticed Revised Proposed Order was an unintentional oversight- essentially a scrivener's error -- the correction of which mistake is both beneficial to administration of the Estate and wholly without prejudice to any party in interest.\n\n19. And, as one court aptly observed:\n\n... the \"ability of a court to review and modify its own orders is well recognized. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(6), made applicable to this case by Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure 9024, allows the court to grant relief from an order, in addition to the grounds set out in Rule 60(b)(1)-(5), for 'any other reason that justifies relief.\" And ... it \"is axiomatic that a court can reconsider its own orders in appropriate circumstances.\" Id .; see, e.g., Fed. R. Civ. P. 60. Moreover, bankruptcy courts, \"as courts of equity, have the power to reconsider, modify or vacate their previous orders so long as no intervening rights have become vested in reliance on the orders.\" Meyer v. Lenox (In re Lenox), 902 F.2d 737, 739-40 (9th Cir. 1990), quoted in In re Phillips, 553 B.R. 536, 544 (Bankr. E.D. N.C. 2016) ...\n\nNew Bern Riverfront Dev., LLC v. Weaver Cooke Constr., LLC (In re New Bern Riverfront Dev., LLC), 2019 Bankr. LEXIS 167, at \\*25-\\*26, 2019 WL 325803 (E.D. N.C. 2019)(allowing reconsideration and amendment of prior order). These principles too augur in favor of granting the relief requested here.\n\n20. 9 Accordingly, Trustee respectfully requests that the Court enter an order amending the order docketed under ECF No. 3244 in this bankruptcy case to include the two ordinal paragraphs set forth in the Revised Proposed Order filed on May 23, 2024 (ECF No. 3212) that were mistakenly omitted from the proposed order submitted by Trustee for the Court consideration on June 11, 2024 and endorsed by the Court on June 12, 2024. A proposed form of amended order is attached hereto as Exhibit A, with a blacklined version comparing the new proposed order to the existing order attached as Exhibit B.\n\n## Conclusion\n\nFor all the forgoing reasons, Trustee prays that his motion to amend the June 12, 2024 Order docketed in this case as ECF No. 3244 be granted.\n\nDated: June 18, 2024 New Haven, Connecticut LUC DESPINS, as appointed Chapter 11 Trustee for HO WON KWOK\n\nBy: /s/ James C. Graham James C. Graham (ct06064) NEUBERT, PEPE & MONTEITH, P.C. 195 Church Street, 13th Floor New Haven, Connecticut 06510 (203) 781-2889 jgraham(anpmlaw.com\n\n# UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT BRIDGEPORT DIVISION\n\n| . X                  |  |\n|----------------------|--|\n| In re:               |  |\n| HO WAN KWOK, et al.1 |  |\n| Debtor.              |  |\n|                      |  |\n\nChapter 11\n\nCase No. 22-50073 (JAM)\n\n(Jointly Administered)\n\n# PROPOSED\n\n# AMENDED ORDER PURSUANT TO SECTIONS 105(a), 363(b), 541, AND 542 OF THE BANKRUPTCY CODE APPROVING LIQUIDATION OF VCTR SHARES, DISTRIBUTION OF PROCEEDS, AND RELATED RELIEF (AMENDING ECF NO. 3244)\n\nUpon the Motion of Luc A. Despins, as chapter 11 trustee (the \"Trustee\") for the estate of\n\nHo Wan Kwok (the \"Debtor\"), to Amend Prior Order of This Court (ECF No. 3244) Approving Liquidation of VCTR Shares, Distribution of Proceeds, and Related Relief to Include Two Ordinal Paragraphs Mistakenly Omitted from the Proposed Order Submitted For Court Consideration on June 11, 2024 and Endorsed By The Court On June 12, 2024 (the \"Motion to Amend\") to reconsider and amend the June 12, 2024 order of this Court (ECF No. 3244) granting Trustee's Motion (ECF No. 3203, dated May 21, 2024) Pursuant to Sections 105(a), 363(b), 541, and 542 of the Bankruptcy Code Approving the Liquidation of the VCTR Shares and the Distribution of their Proceeds to the Trustee for the Estate, and for Related Relief (the\n\n<sup>4</sup> The Debtors in these chapter 11 cases are Ho Wan Kwok (also known as Guo Wengui, Miles Guo, and Miles Kwok, as well as numerous other aliases) (last four digits of tax identification number: 9595), Genever Holdings LLC (last four digits of tax identification number: 8202) and Genever Holdings Corporation. The mailing address for the Trustee, Genever Holdings LLC, and the Genever Holdings Corporation is Paul Hastings LLP, 200 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10166 c/o Luc A. Despins, as Trustee for the Estate of Ho Wan Kwok (solely for purposes of notices and communications).\n\n<sup>2</sup> All capitalized terms not expressly defined herein shall adopt the definitions set forth in the Original Motion and the Motion to Amend.\n\n\"Original Motion\"), due and sufficient notice having been given, and good cause appearing for the relief sought by the Motion to Amend, it is hereby\n\nORDERED, that the Motion to Amend is granted as set forth herein; and it is further\n\nORDERED, that within two business days of receiving a written notice to sell the VCTR Shares from the Trustee (which notice may direct disposition by market order or limit order), the Reverence Fund shall direct Merrill Lynch to liquidate the VCTR Shares in accordance with Trustee's express instructions and Merrill Lynch's ordinary course of business for such transactions (including, where required, the Reverence Fund's verbal confirmation of such order) and distribute the proceeds to the Trustee pursuant to the terms of this Order; and it is further\n\nORDERED, that within five business days of receiving direction to sell the VCTR Shares from the Reverence Fund, Merrill Lynch shall liquidate the VCTR Shares on the stock market as directed by the Reverence Fund; and it is further\n\nORDERED, that Merrill Lynch may deduct its Expenses from Gross Proceeds of the liquidation, which Expenses shall be capped at three thousand dollars (\\$3,000.00) and shall not include Merrill Lynch's attorney's fees; and it is further\n\nORDERED, that within seven business days of receiving direction to sell the VCTR Shares from the Reverence Fund, Merrill Lynch shall distribute the Net Proceeds to the Trustee; and it is further\n\nORDERED, that the L.P. Interest is property of the Estate and, given the nature of the L.P Interest and the circumstances under which it is held, as described in the Motion including ¶¶ 6 and 37-39 thereof, the Trustee is hereby authorized to hold the L.P. Interest for the benefit of the Estate pending further order of the Court; and is further\n\nORDERED, that the Reverence Fund and the Trustee will negotiate and discuss in good faith the steps required, if any, to memorialize the Trustee's ownership of the L.P. Interest; and is further\n\nORDERED, that any Distributions on account of the L.P. Interest whether presently payable or at such time as they may become payable in the future shall be made to the Trustee or otherwise distributed at the direction of the Trustee; and it is further\n\nORDERED, that effective as of the date of entry of this Order, that the Reverence Fund and each of its respective affiliates and subsidiaries shall be absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably released and forever discharged and acquitted from any and all obligations, claims, counterclaims, defenses, offsets, demands, debts, accounts, contracts, liabilities, responsibilities, disputes, remedies, indebtedness, obligations, rights, assertions, actions, suits, controversies, proceedings, losses, damages, injuries, attorney's fees, costs, expenses, judgments of every type, and causes of action arising from, or related to, the distribution and liquidation of the VCTR shares pursuant to the terms of this Order; any steps taken to memorialize the Trustee's ownership of the L.P. Interest as agreed with the Trustee or as approved by the Court; and/or from any future Distributions made pursuant to the terms of this Order to or at the direction of the Trustee on account of the L.P. Interests; and it is further\n\nORDERED, that the Trustee and the Reverence Fund reserve their respective rights in connection with the Reverence Action, including arguments by Reverence Fund that by receiving the L.P. Interest and Distributions associated with the L.P. Interest, the Trustee may not also recover the value of the initial transfers that created the L.P. Interest; and it is further\n\nORDERED, that any and all rights and remedies at law or in equity that the Trustee and Lamp Capital LLC, respectively, may have in connection with the adversary proceeding\n\ndenominated Luc A. Despins, Trustee v. Lamp Capital LLC, et al., U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Connecticut, Adv. Pro. 23-05023, and any post-judgment or appellate proceedings relating thereto, are expressly reserved, and it is further\n\nORDERED, that within five (5) business days of receipt of the Net Proceeds, the Trustee shall file a report in the Chapter 11 Case disclosing (i) the date on which the VCTR Shares were sold, (ii) the sale price of the VCTR Shares, (iii) the amount of the Gross Proceeds, (iv) the amount of the Expenses deducted, and (v) the amount of the Net Proceeds received by the Trustee; and it is further\n\nORDERED, that the Trustee is authorized to take all actions necessary or appropriate to effectuate this Order; and it is further\n\nORDERED, that within five business days of the entry of this Order, the Trustee shall provide Merrill Lynch with a completed W-9 form, a copy of a government-issued identification card, wire instructions, and any other documentation that Merrill Lynch reasonably requests in order to cause payment of the Net Proceeds to the Trustee; and it is further\n\nORDERED, that Merrill Lynch is not and shall not be deemed to be responsible for any taxes or tax consequences associated with or caused by the liquidation and/or transfer and/or distribution of the VCTR Shares or the Net Proceeds, as applicable; and it is further\n\nORDERED, that Merrill Lynch shall not have liability for actions taken in compliance with this order; and it is further\n\nORDERED, that this Order shall be immediately enforceable upon entry pursuant to Bankruptcy Rule 6004(h); and it is further\n\n|  |  |  | Case 22-50073    Doc 3255    Filed 06/18/24    Entered 06/18/24 13:50:03      Page 16 of 22 |  |\n|--|--|--|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--|\n|--|--|--|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--|\n\n### UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT BRIDGEPORT DIVISION\n\n-----------.\n\n.\n\n.\n\n:\n\n---------\n\nIn re:\n\nChapter 11\n\nHO WAN KWOK, et al.1\n\nCase No. 22-50073 (JAM)\n\nDebtor.\n\n(Jointly Administered)\n\n## [PROPOSED-AMENDED] AMENDED ORDER PURSUANT TO SECTIONS 105(a), 363(b), 541, AND 542 OF THE BANKRUPTCY CODE APPROVING LIQUIDATION OF VCTR SHARES, DISTRIBUTION OF PROCEEDS, AND RELATED RELIEF \\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_ (AMENDING ECF NO. 3244)\n\nUpon the metion-Motion (the \"Motion\") of Luc A. Despins, as chapter 11 trustee (the \"Trustee\") for the estate of Ho Wan Kwok (the \"Debtor\"), to Amend Prior Order of This Court - - ' (ECF No. 3244) Approving Liquidation of VCTR Shares, Distribution of Proceeds, and Related Relief to Include Two Ordinal Paragraphs Mistakenly Omitted from the Proposed Order Submitted For Court Consideration on June 11, 2024 and Endorsed By The Court On June 12, 2024 (the \"Motion to Amend\") to reconsider and amend the priorthe June 12, 2024 -order of this Court (ECF No. 3244) granting Trustee's Motion (ECF No. 32443203, dated June 12, 2024)dated May 21, 2024) Pursuant to seetions Sections 105(a), 363(b), 541, and 542 of the Bankruptcy Code epproving-Approving the liquidation-Liquidation of the VCTR Shares and the distribution\n\n2 All capitalized terms not expressly defined herein shall adopt the definitions set forth in the Original Motion and the Motion to Amend.\n\n| 1 Formatted: Font: Italic |\n|---------------------------|\n| 1 Formatted: No underline |\n| 1 Formatted: No underline |\n|                           |\n\n| · Formatted: Underline      |\n|-----------------------------|\n| Formatted: Font: Italic     |\n|                             |\n| . 1 Formatted: Font: Italic |\n| Formatted: Font: Italic     |\n| Formatted: Font: Italic     |\n| Formatted: Font: Italic     |\n| Formatted: Font: Italic     |\n| Formatted: Font: Italic     |\n\n<sup>1</sup> The Debtors in these chapter 11 cases are Ho Wan Kwok (also known as Guo Wengui, Miles Guo, and Miles Kwok, as well as numerous other aliases) (last four digits of tax identification number: 9595), Genever Holdings LLC (last four digits of tax identification number: 8202) and Genever Holdings Corporation. The mailing address for the Trustee, Genever Holdings LLC, and the Genever Holdings Corporation is Paul Hastings LLP, 200 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10166 c/o Luc A. Despins, as Trustee for the Estate of Ho Wan Kwok (solely for purposes of notices and communications).\n\nDistribution of their proceeds to the Trustee for the benefit Benefit of the Estate, and for related-Related relief .- (the \"Original Motion\"), due and sufficient notice having been given, and good cause appearing for the relief sought by the Motion to Amend, it is hereby\n\nORDERED, that the Motion to Amend is granted as set forth herein; and it is further ORDERED, that within two business days of receiving a written notice to sell the VCTR Shares from the Trustee (which notice may direct disposition by market order or limit order), the Reverence Fund shall direct Merrill Lynch to liquidate the VCTR Shares in accordance with Trustee's express instructions and Merrill Lynch's ordinary course of business for such transactions (including, where required, the Reverence Fund's verbal confirmation of such order) and distribute the proceeds to the Trustee pursuant to the terms of this Order; and it is further\n\nORDERED, that within five business days of receiving direction to sell the VCTR Shares from the Reverence Fund, Merrill Lynch shall liquidate the VCTR Shares on the stock market as directed by the Reverence Fund; and it is further\n\nORDERED, that Merrill Lynch may deduct its Expenses from Gross Proceeds of the liquidation, which Expenses shall be capped at three thousand dollars (\\$3,000.00) and shall not include Merrill Lynch's attorney's fees; and it is further\n\nORDERED, that within seven business days of receiving direction to sell the VCTR Shares from the Reverence Fund, Merrill Lynch shall distribute the Net Proceeds to the Trustee; and it is further\n\nORDERED, that the L.P. Interest is property of the Estate and, given the nature of the L.P Interest and the circumstances under which it is held, as described in the Motion including ¶¶ 6 and 37-39 thereof, the Trustee is hereby authorized to hold the L.P. Interest for the benefit\n\n| 1 Formatted: Font: Italic |\n|---------------------------|\n| Formatted: Font: Italic   |\n| Formatted: Font: Italic   |\n| Formatted: Font: Italic   |\n| Formatted: Font: Italic   |\n| Formatted: Underline      |\n|                           |\n\nof the Estate pending further order of the Court: and is further\n\nORDERED, that the Reverence Fund and the Trustee will negotiate and discuss in good faith the steps required, if any, to memorialize the Trustee's ownership of the L.P. Interest; and is further\n\nORDERED, that any Distributions on account of the L.P. Interest whether presently payable or at such time as they may become payable in the future shall be made to the Trustee or otherwise distributed at the direction of the Trustee; and it is further\n\nORDERED, that effective as of the date of entry of this Order, that the Reverence Fund and each of its respective affiliates and subsidiaries shall be absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably released and forever discharged and acquitted from any and all obligations, claims, counterclaims, defenses, offsets, demands, debts, accounts, contracts, liabilities, responsibilities, disputes, remedies, indebtedness, obligations, rights, assertions, actions, suits, controversies, proceedings, losses, damages, injuries, attorney's fees, costs, expenses, judgments of every type, and causes of action arising from, or related to, the distribution and liquidation of the VCTR shares pursuant to the terms of this Order; any steps taken to memorialize the Trustee's ownership of the L.P. Interest as agreed with the Trustee or as approved by the Court; and/or from any future Distributions made pursuant to the terms of this Order to or at the direction of the Trustee on account of the L.P. Interests; and it is further\n\nORDERED, that the Trustee and the Reverence Fund reserve their respective rights in connection with the Reverence Action, including arguments by Reverence Fund that by receiving the L.P. Interest and Distributions associated with the L.P. Interest, the Trustee may not also recover the value of the initial transfers that created the L.P. Interest; and it is further\n\nORDERED, that any and all rights and remedies at law or in equity that the Trustee and\n\nLamp Capital LLC, respectively, may have in connection with the adversary proceeding denominated Luc A. Despins, Trustee v. Lamp Capital LLC, et al., U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Connecticut, Adv. Pro. 23-05023, and any post-judgment or appellate proceedings relating thereto, are expressly reserved, and it is further\n\nORDERED. that within five (5) business days of receipt of the Net Proceeds, the Trustees ... . [ Formatted: Fort: 12 pt shall file a report in the Chapter 11 Case disclosing (i) the date on which the VCTR Shares were sold. (ii) the sale price of the VCTR Shares, (iii) the amount of the Gross Proceeds, (iv) the amount of the Expenses deducted, and (v) the amount of the Net Proceeds received by the Trustee: and it is further\n\nORDERED, that the Trustee is authorized to take all actions necessary or appropriate to effectuate this Order; and it is further\n\nORDERED, that within five business days of the entry of this Order, the Trustee shall provide Merrill Lynch with a completed W-9 form, a copy of a government-issued identification card, wire instructions, and any other documentation that Merrill Lynch reasonably requests in order to cause payment of the Net Proceeds to the Trustee; and it is further\n\nORDERED, that Merrill Lynch is not and shall not be deemed to be responsible for any taxes or tax consequences associated with or caused by the liquidation and/or transfer and/or distribution of the VCTR Shares or the Net Proceeds, as applicable; and it is further\n\nORDERED, that Merrill Lynch shall not have liability for actions taken in compliance with this order: and it is further\n\nFormatted: Font: 12 pt Formatted: Justified, Indent: Left: 0.05\", Right: 0.1\", Line spacing: Exactly 27.6 pt, Don't allow hanging punctuation, Adjust space between Latin and Asian text, Adjust space between Asian text and numbers, Font Alignment: Baseline Formatted: Font: Bold Formatted: Line spacing: Double\n\nORDERED, that this Order shall be immediately enforceable upon entry pursuant to Bankruptcy Rule 6004(h); and it is further\n\n4\n\nFormatted: Line spacing: Double\n\n## CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE\n\nThe undersigned hereby certifies that a true and correct copy of the foregoing Motion to Amend, together with exhibits A and B, was filed via CM/ECF and sent to all parties appreating in the above-captioned chapter 11 case (the \"Chapter 11 Case\") automatically upon filing via email by operation of CM/ECF.\n\nIn addition, a true and correct copy of the foregoing was sent via email and mailed via U.S. first class mail to each of the following notice parties on June 18, 2024 :\n\nCasey McGushin KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP 333 West Wolf Point Plaza Chicago, IL 60654 casey.mcgushin@kirkland.com Counsel for Reverence Capital Partners Opportunities Fund I (Cayman) L.P.\n\nShawn R. Fox McGuireWoods LLP 1251 Avenue of the Americas 20th Floor New York, NY 10020-1104 sfox@mcguirewoods.com Counsel for Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated\n\nLax & Neville LLP Attn: Barry Lax, Robert J. Grand, Robert Miller and Jordan W. Schur Empire State Building 350 Fifth Avenue Suite 4640 New York, NY 10118 blax(@laxneville.com, rgrand(@laxneville.com, rmiller@laxneville.com, schur(@houser-law.com Counsel that appeared for Lamp Capital LLC in Despins ex rel. Kwok v. Lamp Capital LLC (In re Kwok), Case No. 22-50073 (JAM), Adv. P. No. 23-05023 (JAM)\n\nIn addition, a true and correct copy of the foregoing was mailed on June 18, 2024 by U.S. first class mail to each of the following manual service parties at the address noted below:\n\nAffiliated Adjustment Group, Ltd. 3000 Marcus Avenue, Suite 3W3 Lake Success, NY 11042\n\nBravo Luck Limited P.O. Box 957 Offshore Incorporations Centre Road Town\n\nTortola, British Virgin Islands\n\nChao-Chih Chiu, Keyi Zilkie, Yunxia Wu, and Huizhen Wang c/o TroyGould PC 1801 Century Park East, 16th Floor Attn: Christopher A. Lilly Los Angeles, CA 90067-2367\n\nGregory A. Coleman Coleman Worldwide Advisors, LLC PO Box 2839 New York, NY 10008-2839\n\nCorporate Creations Network, Inc. 801 US Highway 1 North Palm Beach, FL 33408\n\nDundon Advisers LLC 10 Bank Street, Suite 1100 White Plains, NY 10606\n\nEdmiston and Company Limited 2 Marina Plaza Newport, RI 02840\n\nEisner Advisory Group LLC 111 Wood Avenue South Iselin, NJ 08830-2700\n\nIvey, Barnum & O'Mara LLC 170 Mason Street Greenwich CT 06830\n\nXiaoxiao Lin 24 Sonrisa Irvine, CA 92620\n\nXiaoming Liu 5-16-50 Nemotomachi Tajimi City Gifu Prefecture, 5070065\n\nYuanlin Liu 192 Pendleton Dr. Amherst, VA 24521\n\nStretto 410 Exchange, Suite 100 Irvine, CA 92602\n\nNing Zhao 3611 Summer Ranch Dr. Katy, TX 77694\n\n/s/ James C. Graham\n\nJames C. Graham","body_zh":"美国康涅狄格联邦破产法院布里奇波特分院\n\n关于：　第11章\n\nHO WAN KWOK（郭文贵）等人1　案号：22-50073 (JAM)\n\n债务人。　（合并管理）\n\n请求复议并修改本院先前裁定（ECF No. 3244）的动议；该裁定批准清算VCTR股份、分配所得款项及相关救济，以纳入两项编号段落，该等段落在2024年6月11日提交法院审议并于2024年6月12日获法院签署的拟议裁定中被错误遗漏\n\nLuc A. Despins（卢克·A·德斯平斯，下称“受托人”）作为Ho Wan Kwok（郭文贵）（下称“债务人”）的第11章受托人，特此请求修改（下称“修改动议”）本院于2024年1月12日作出的、依据《破产法典》第105(a)、363(b)、541及542条批准清算VCTR股份、分配所得款项及相关救济的裁定（ECF No. 3244），以纳入受托人提交法院并随后在本案中录入的裁定文本中因疏忽和错误而遗漏的两项编号段落。为支持本动议，受托人陈述下列理由。\n\n1 本第11章案件中的债务人为Ho Wan Kwok（郭文贵）（亦称Guo Wengui、Miles Guo及Miles Kwok，以及其他众多别名）（税务识别号码后四位：9595）、Genever Holdings I.L.C（税务识别号码后四位：8202）及Genever Holdings Corporation。受托人、Genever Holdings LLC及Genever Holdings Corporation的邮寄地址为：Paul Hastings LLP，200 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10166，转交Luc A. Despins，作为Ho Wan Kwok破产财产的受托人（仅限通知及通信用途）。\n\n背景及相关事实\n\n1. 受托人就本第11章破产财产在名为Reverence Capital Partners Opportunities Fund I (Cayman) L.P.（Reverence资本合伙机会基金一期（开曼）有限合伙企业，下称“Reverence基金”）的私募股权基金中所持权益，包括存放于Merrill Lynch（美林证券）账户内的现金和证券，提出了关于VCTR股份、所得款项分配及相关救济的动议（下称“原动议”）。见ECF No. 3203。受托人原动议附有一份拟议裁定（下称“初始拟议裁定”）：(i) 授权清算由Reverence基金持有的VCTR证券，并将所得款项，以及因本破产财产在Reverence基金中所持权益而应付或将应付的其他分配款项，分配给受托人；(ii) 规定实施及报告该等处置的程序和步骤；(iii) 为参与清算和分配的当事人提供某些保障；以及(iv) 规定本院对因实施、解释及执行该裁定而产生或与之有关事项的持续管辖权。\n\n2. 本院安排于2024年6月10日就原动议举行听证，并指示须于2024年5月28日前完成送达，任何异议须于2024年6月6日前提交。\n\n3. 在受托人与Merrill Lynch协商后，受托人提交了《修订拟议裁定通知》，并附上该裁定（下称“修订拟议裁定”）。ECF No. 3212。应United States Trustee（美国受托人办公室）及Merrill Lynch分别提出的请求，修订拟议裁定在受托人的初始拟议裁定中增加了以下两（2）项编号段落：\n\n兹命令，受托人应于收到净所得款项后五（5）个营业日内，在第11章案件中提交报告，披露：(i) VCTR股份出售的日期；(ii) VCTR股份的出售价格；(iii)\n\n总所得款项金额；(iv) 扣除的费用金额，以及受托人收到的净所得款项金额；并进一步\n\n兹命令，Merrill Lynch对于遵守本裁定所采取的行动不承担责任；并进一步\n\n在其他所有方面，修订拟议裁定在实质内容上与随原动议提交的初始拟议裁定相同。\n\n4. 2024年5月28日，受托人提交了送达证明，确认已及时向所有有权接受送达的当事人送达原动议（ECF 3203）、加速听证动议裁定（ECF 3211）及修订拟议裁定通知（ECF 3212）。见ECF No. 3217。\n\n5. Lamp Capital（兰普资本）对受托人的原动议提出异议。ECF No. 3234。Lamp的异议仅针对其主张：批准原动议所设想救济的裁定，应当详细说明，若Lamp Capital在其就本院于Despins, Trustee v. Lamp Capital LLC, et al（Despins受托人诉Lamp Capital LLC等人）、对抗性程序23-05023中作出的判决提出的未决上诉中胜诉，其权利的范围。该判决认定Lamp为本第11章债务人案件中债务人的另我，且Lamp持有的任何财产均为本第11章破产财产的财产。（下称“Lamp对抗性程序”）。\n\n6. 2024年6月10日，本院就原动议及Lamp的有限异议举行听证。出席者包括代表United States Trustee、Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors（无担保债权人官方委员会）、债权人Pacific Alliance Asia Opportunity Fund（太平洋联盟亚洲机会基金）、Lamp Capital、Reverence基金及Merrill Lynch的律师，以及受托人及其律师。\n\n7. 在听证会上，受托人陈述了破产财产近期发现作为原动议标的的资产，以及与Reverence基金和Merrill Lynch就清算该等资产所协商的安排。受托人进一步指出，对拟议裁定作出某些细微修订，以允许受托人就股票处置时机行使合理裁量权，将既审慎又有利于破产财产。关于Lamp Capital的有限异议，受托人表示，他不反对在裁定中纳入一项条款，概括保留若Lamp Capital在其就Lamp对抗性程序中对其作出的判决提出的未决上诉中胜诉时可获得的任何权利和救济，但反对Lamp Capital显然希望2对任何有利上诉裁决的具体法律效力作出界定，并实质上预先固定该效力，而不论该裁决是否范围有限、附带条件或尚未终局。\n\n8. Lamp Capital承认，其未能取得对Lamp对抗性程序中针对其作出的判决的中止执行令，并主张其并不寻求阻碍清算所涉证券，或阻碍破产财产接收和使用涉案资产。然而，其主张，任何与其就Lamp对抗性程序裁决提出的上诉有关的权利保留，均须按照其所界定的具体措辞阐明该等权利。\n\n9. 在听取辩论后，本院认定应当批准原动议，但须录入适当裁定。本院指示受托人\n\n2 Lamp Capital的有限异议附录A载有初始拟议裁定的修订对照稿，反映Lamp对该裁定文本提出的修订建议。\n\n及Lamp Capital于次日，即2024年6月11日下午5:00前，向本院提交一份供审议的联合拟议裁定；如双方无法达成一致，则分别提交相互竞争的裁定。\n\n10. 受托人与Lamp Capital未能就裁定文本达成一致，当事人分别提交了相互竞争的裁定（ECF Nos. 3240和3241）。受托人的裁定文本反映了受托人在听证会上概述的变更（即关于“出售触发条件”措辞及概括保留各方就Lamp对抗性程序可能享有的权利）。Lamp Capital提出了更为具体的权利保留措辞。\n\n11. 2024年6月12日，本院以受托人提交的裁定文本录入裁定（ECF No. 3244），批准原动议。\n\n12. 随后，United States Trustee办公室向受托人指出，本院签署的裁定未反映美国受托人办公室所请求的编号段落（即关于报告股票出售结果），该段落已纳入受托人于2024年5月23日提交的修订裁定（ECF No. 3212）。\n\n13. 经调查，受托人的律师意识到，在准备一份新的拟议裁定以处理2024年6月10日听证中讨论的事项（即修订后的“出售触发条件”和权利保留）并于6月11日提交本院时，他无意中修订了一份反映较早的初始拟议裁定的Microsoft Word文件，而非其后的修订拟议裁定。因此，应United States Trustee办公室及Merrill Lynch请求而增列的两项段落3，被无意中从提交本院审议的\n\n3 被遗漏段落的全文载于本文件上文第3段。\n\n裁定中遗漏。该律师随即致电United States Trustee办公室及Merrill Lynch各自的律师，就该错误致歉，并表示将寻求适当救济。\n\n讨论及请求的救济\n\n14. 受托人主张，以录入包含两项遗漏段落的修订裁定形式给予救济，在本案中具有正当依据。\n\n15. 作为门槛问题，应当注意的是，遗漏的段落规定对拟议清算结果进行额外透明的报告，并为被要求实施拟议交易的当事人提供合理保护。因此，其在实质上合理且适当。\n\n16. 此外，该等规定显然不存在争议。所有有权接受受托人2024年5月21日原动议送达的当事人，事实上均获送达原动议、听证通知以及载有两项遗漏段落的修订拟议裁定副本。见ECF No. 3217（送达证明）。对原动议提出的唯一异议是Lamp Capital的异议，而其有限异议绝未涉及遗漏段落中提及的事项。因此，所有利害关系人均已知悉应United States Trustee办公室及Merrill Lynch请求而加入现行拟议裁定的具体规定。无人对该等规定提出异议。\n\n17. 本院具有充分的法律依据准许所请求的救济。首先，本院2024年6月12日的裁定在第4页规定：“……本院应保留对因实施、解释及执行本裁定而产生或与之有关的所有事项的管辖权”，这明确承认了本院复议、修改或撤销该裁定的固有权力。见，例如，In re Renaissance Stone Works, L.L.C.（关于Renaissance Stone Works, L.L.C.案），373 B.R. 817, 822 (E.D. Mich. 2007)（根据11 U.S.C. § 105(a)，破产法院可依职权行使其固有权力，以复议、修改或撤销先前裁定）。\n\n18. 除此以外，根据Bankruptcy Rule 9024（破产程序规则第9024条）适用于破产案件的Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(1)（《联邦民事诉讼规则》第60(b)(1)条）规定，法院可基于错误、疏忽、意外或可宽恕的过失，以“公正条件”免除一方当事人或其法定代表人受终局判决书、裁定或程序约束。Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b)(1)。在本案中，经适当通知的修订拟议裁定中所载两项有益、无争议且无人反对的段落被遗漏，属于非故意的疏漏——实质上是文书错误——纠正该错误既有利于破产财产的管理，亦完全不会损害任何利害关系人的利益。\n\n19. 并且，正如一法院恰当地指出：\n\n……法院“审查并修改其自身命令的权力已得到充分承认。经由《联邦破产程序规则》9024适用于本案的《联邦民事诉讼规则》60(b)(6)，除规则60(b)(1)-(5)所列理由外，允许法院基于‘任何其他足以证明救济正当的理由’给予命令救济。”并且……“不言而喻，法院可在适当情形下重新考虑其自身命令。”同上；参见，例如，Fed. R. Civ. P. 60。此外，破产法院“作为衡平法院，只要未有任何中间权利因信赖该等命令而确定，即有权重新考虑、修改或撤销其先前命令。”Meyer v. Lenox（In re Lenox），902 F.2d 737, 739-40 (9th Cir. 1990)，引自 In re Phillips，553 B.R. 536, 544 (Bankr. E.D. N.C. 2016)……\n\nNew Bern Riverfront Dev., LLC（新伯尔尼滨河开发有限责任公司）v. Weaver Cooke Constr., LLC（韦弗·库克建筑有限责任公司）（In re New Bern Riverfront Dev., LLC），2019 Bankr. LEXIS 167, at *25-*26, 2019 WL 325803 (E.D. N.C. 2019)（允许重新考虑并修订先前命令）。这些原则同样支持准予此处所请求的救济。\n\n20. 9 因此，受托人谨请求法院作出命令，修订本破产案件中以 ECF No. 3244 登记的命令，以纳入于 May 23, 2024 提交的《修订拟议命令》（ECF No. 3212）所载的两个序数段落；该两个段落因疏忽未被纳入受托人于 June 11, 2024 提交供法院审议并由法院于 June 12, 2024 批准的拟议命令中。修订命令的拟议文本作为附件 A 随附于此，其中附有将新拟议命令与现有命令进行比较的黑线版本，作为附件 B。\n结论\n\n基于上述所有理由，受托人请求准予其修订本案中以 ECF No. 3244 登记的 June 12, 2024 命令之动议。\n\n日期：June 18, 2024\n康涅狄格州纽黑文\nLUC DESPINS（卢克·德斯平斯），作为 HO WON KWOK（郭文贵）的指定 Chapter 11 受托人\n\n签署人：/s/ James C. Graham\nJames C. Graham（ct06064）\nNEUBERT, PEPE & MONTEITH, P.C.（纽伯特、佩佩及蒙泰斯专业公司）\n195 Church Street, 13th Floor\nNew Haven, Connecticut 06510\n(203) 781-2889\njgraham(anpmlaw.com\nUNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT BRIDGEPORT DIVISION（美国康涅狄格地区破产法院布里奇波特分院）\n\n. X\n\n关于：\n\nHO WAN KWOK（郭文贵）等人1\n债务人。\n\nChapter 11\n\n案号：22-50073 (JAM)\n\n（合并管理）\n拟议\n依据《破产法典》第 105(a)、363(b)、541 及 542 条批准清算 VCTR 股份、分配所得款项及相关救济的修订命令（修订 ECF NO. 3244）\n\n鉴于 Luc A. Despins（卢克·A·德斯平斯）作为 Ho Wan Kwok（郭文贵）（“债务人”）财产的 Chapter 11 受托人（“受托人”）提出动议，请求修订本院先前命令（ECF No. 3244）——该命令批准清算 VCTR 股份、分配所得款项及相关救济——以纳入两个因疏忽未被纳入于 June 11, 2024 提交供法院审议并由法院于 June 12, 2024 批准的拟议命令中的序数段落（“修订动议”），从而重新考虑并修订本院 June 12, 2024 命令（ECF No. 3244），该命令准予受托人依据《破产法典》第 105(a)、363(b)、541 及 542 条提出的动议（ECF No. 3203，日期为 May 21, 2024），批准清算 VCTR 股份并将其所得款项分配给受托人以供该财产使用，以及给予相关救济（“原动议”）；鉴于已作出适当且充分的通知，且存在准予修订动议所请求救济的正当理由，现据此\n\n4 本 Chapter 11 案件中的债务人为 Ho Wan Kwok（亦称 Guo Wengui、Miles Guo、Miles Kwok，以及众多其他别名）（税务识别号码后四位：9595）、Genever Holdings LLC（杰纳维尔控股有限责任公司）（税务识别号码后四位：8202）及 Genever Holdings Corporation（杰纳维尔控股公司）。受托人、Genever Holdings LLC 及 Genever Holdings Corporation 的邮寄地址为 Paul Hastings LLP（保罗·黑斯廷斯律师事务所），200 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10166，转交 Luc A. Despins，作为 Ho Wan Kwok 财产的受托人（仅为通知及通信之目的）。\n\n2 本文中未明确定义的所有首字母大写术语，均采用《原动议》和《修订动议》中所载的定义。\n\n命令如下：依本文所述准予修订动议；并进一步\n\n命令如下：Reverence Fund（瑞弗伦斯基金）在收到受托人关于出售 VCTR 股份的书面通知后两个营业日内（该通知可指示以市价单或限价单处置），应指示 Merrill Lynch（美林证券）按照受托人的明确指示以及美林证券对此类交易的正常营业惯例（包括在必要时由瑞弗伦斯基金对该指令作出口头确认）清算 VCTR 股份，并依本命令条款将所得款项分配给受托人；并进一步\n\n命令如下：美林证券在收到瑞弗伦斯基金出售 VCTR 股份的指示后五个营业日内，应按照瑞弗伦斯基金的指示在股票市场清算 VCTR 股份；并进一步\n\n命令如下：美林证券可从清算的总所得款项中扣除其费用，该等费用上限为三千美元（$3,000.00），且不得包括美林证券的律师费；并进一步\n\n命令如下：美林证券在收到瑞弗伦斯基金出售 VCTR 股份的指示后七个营业日内，应将净所得款项分配给受托人；并进一步\n\n命令如下：L.P. 权益属于该财产的财产，并且鉴于该 L.P. 权益的性质及其持有情形，如动议中所述，包括其中第 6 及 37-39 段，特此授权受托人为该财产利益持有该 L.P. 权益，直至法院另行命令；并进一步\n\n命令如下：瑞弗伦斯基金与受托人将本着诚信协商和讨论为确认受托人对 L.P. 权益的所有权所需的步骤（如有）；并进一步\n\n命令如下：就 L.P. 权益作出的任何分配，无论现时应付或于未来任何时间到期应付，均应支付给受托人，或以其他方式按照受托人的指示分配；并进一步\n\n命令如下：自本命令登记之日起，瑞弗伦斯基金及其各自关联方和子公司，就因根据本命令条款分配及清算 VCTR 股份；为确认按与受托人约定或经法院批准的受托人对 L.P. 权益的所有权而采取的任何步骤；及/或根据本命令条款就 L.P. 权益向受托人或按受托人指示作出的任何未来分配而产生或与之相关的任何及全部义务、请求权、反请求权、抗辩、抵销、要求、债务、账目、合同、责任、职责、争议、救济、负债、义务、权利、主张、诉讼、诉讼请求、争议、程序、损失、损害、伤害、律师费、成本、费用、各类判决及诉因，均被绝对、无条件且不可撤销地免除、永久解除及免责；并进一步\n\n命令如下：受托人和瑞弗伦斯基金各自保留与 Reverence Action（瑞弗伦斯诉讼）相关的权利，包括瑞弗伦斯基金提出的以下主张：受托人在获得 L.P. 权益及与该 L.P. 权益相关的分配后，不得同时追偿创设该 L.P. 权益的初始转让价值；并进一步\n\n命令如下：受托人和 Lamp Capital LLC（蓝普资本有限责任公司）各自在对抗程序中可能享有的任何及全部普通法或衡平法上的权利和救济，\n\n该对抗程序名称为 Luc A. Despins, Trustee v. Lamp Capital LLC, et al., U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Connecticut（美国康涅狄格地区破产法院）, Adv. Pro. 23-05023，以及与此相关的任何判决后程序或上诉程序，均被明确保留；并进一步\n\n命令如下：受托人在收到净所得款项后五（5）个营业日内，应在 Chapter 11 案件中提交报告，披露：(i) VCTR 股份出售日期，(ii) VCTR 股份的售价，(iii) 总所得款项金额，(iv) 已扣除费用的金额，及 (v) 受托人收到的净所得款项金额；并进一步\n\n命令如下：授权受托人采取执行本命令所必需或适当的一切行动；并进一步\n\n命令如下：受托人应在本命令登记后五个营业日内，向美林证券提供填写完整的 W-9 表格、政府签发身份证件副本、电汇指示，以及美林证券为促使向受托人支付净所得款项而合理要求的任何其他文件；并进一步\n\n命令如下：美林证券不对与 VCTR 股份或净所得款项的清算及/或转让及/或分配相关或由其引起的任何税款或税务后果承担责任，亦不得被视为承担该等责任；并进一步\n\n命令如下：美林证券对为遵守本命令而采取的行动不承担责任；并进一步\n\n命令如下：本命令应依据《破产规则》6004(h)于登记后立即可执行；并进一步\n\n案号 22-50073    文件 3255    提交日期 06/18/24    登记日期 06/18/24 13:50:03      第 16 页，共 22 页\n\nUNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT BRIDGEPORT DIVISION（美国康涅狄格地区破产法院布里奇波特分院）\n\n-----------.\n\n.\n\n.\n\n关于：\n\nChapter 11\n\nHO WAN KWOK（郭文贵）等人1\n\n案号：22-50073 (JAM)\n\n债务人。\n\n（合并管理）\n［拟议修订］依据《破产法典》第 105(a)、363(b)、541 及 542 条批准清算 VCTR 股份、分配所得款项及相关救济的修订命令____________________________________________________________________________________________________________（修订 ECF NO. 3244）\n\n鉴于 Luc A. Despins（卢克·A·德斯平斯）作为 Ho Wan Kwok（郭文贵）（“债务人”）财产的 Chapter 11 受托人（“受托人”）提出的动议（“动议”），请求修订本院先前命令（ECF No. 3244）——该命令批准清算 VCTR 股份、分配所得款项及相关救济——以纳入两个因疏忽未被纳入于 June 11, 2024 提交供法院审议并由法院于 June 12, 2024 批准的拟议命令中的序数段落（“修订动议”），从而重新考虑并修订本院先前的 June 12, 2024 命令（ECF No. 3244），该命令准予受托人动议（ECF No. 3244 3203，日期为 June 12, 2024）日期为 May 21, 2024），依据《破产法典》第 105(a)、363(b)、541 及 542 条批准清算 VCTR 股份及分配\n\n2 本文中未明确定义的所有首字母大写术语，均采用《原动议》和《修订动议》中所载的定义。\n\n1 格式：字体：斜体\n\n1 格式：无下划线\n1 格式：无下划线\n\n· 格式：下划线\n\n格式：字体：斜体\n\n. 1 格式：字体：斜体\n格式：字体：斜体\n格式：字体：斜体\n格式：字体：斜体\n格式：字体：斜体\n格式：字体：斜体\n\n1 本第11章案件中的债务人为 Ho Wan Kwok（郭文贵，亦称 Guo Wengui、Miles Guo 和 Miles Kwok，以及众多其他别名）（税务识别号码后四位：9595）、Genever Holdings LLC（Genever 控股有限责任公司）（税务识别号码后四位：8202）及 Genever Holdings Corporation（Genever 控股公司）。受托人、Genever Holdings LLC 及 Genever Holdings Corporation 的邮寄地址为：Paul Hastings LLP（保罗·黑斯廷斯律师事务所），200 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10166，转交 Luc A. Despins（Luc A. Despins），作为 Ho Wan Kwok 遗产财产的受托人（仅为通知和通信之目的）。\n\n将其所得款项分配给受托人，以惠及遗产财产，并给予相关救济（“原动议”）；鉴于已给予适当且充分的通知，并且有充分理由支持修改动议所请求的救济，现据此\n\n命令：准予本修改动议，如本命令所述；并进一步命令：Reverence Fund（Reverence 基金）在收到受托人发出的出售 VCTR 股份的书面通知后两（2）个营业日内（该通知可指示以市价单或限价单处置），应指示 Merrill Lynch（美林证券）根据受托人的明确指示以及美林证券就此类交易的通常业务程序（包括在需要时 Reverence 基金对该订单作出口头确认）清算 VCTR 股份，并依照本命令的条款将所得款项分配给受托人；并进一步\n\n命令：Merrill Lynch 在收到 Reverence 基金出售 VCTR 股份的指示后五（5）个营业日内，应按照 Reverence 基金的指示在证券市场上清算 VCTR 股份；并进一步\n\n命令：Merrill Lynch 可从清算所得总款项中扣除其费用，该等费用上限为三千美元（$3,000.00），且不得包括 Merrill Lynch 的律师费；并进一步\n\n命令：Merrill Lynch 在收到 Reverence 基金出售 VCTR 股份的指示后七（7）个营业日内，应将净所得款项分配给受托人；并进一步\n\n命令：该有限合伙权益为遗产财产，且鉴于该有限合伙权益的性质及其持有情形，如动议（包括其第 6 段及第 37 至 39 段）所述，现授权受托人为遗产财产之利益持有该有限合伙权益，直至法院作出进一步命令；并进一步\n\n命令：Reverence 基金与受托人将本着诚信协商和讨论为记载受托人对该有限合伙权益的所有权而需要采取的步骤（如有）；并进一步\n\n命令：就该有限合伙权益作出的任何分配，无论目前应付或将来应付，均应支付给受托人，或依受托人的指示予以分配；并进一步\n\n命令：自本命令录入之日起，Reverence 基金及其各关联公司和子公司，就因下列事项产生或与之有关的一切义务、索赔、反诉、抗辩、抵销、要求、债务、账目、合同、责任、职责、争议、救济、欠款、义务、权利、主张、诉讼、诉讼请求、争议事项、程序、损失、损害、伤害、律师费、成本、费用、各类判决及诉因，均获绝对、无条件且不可撤销地免责、永久解除责任及免于追究：根据本命令条款对 VCTR 股份进行分配和清算；经与受托人协议或经法院批准而为记载受托人对有限合伙权益的所有权所采取的任何步骤；和/或根据本命令条款就有限合伙权益向受托人或依受托人指示作出的任何未来分配；并进一步\n\n命令：受托人和 Reverence 基金各自保留其与 Reverence Action（Reverence 诉讼）有关的权利，包括 Reverence 基金提出的如下主张：受托人如取得有限合伙权益及与该有限合伙权益相关的分配，则不得同时追回设立该有限合伙权益的初始转让的价值；并进一步\n\n命令：受托人和 Lamp Capital LLC（Lamp 资本有限责任公司）各自在题为 Luc A. Despins, Trustee v. Lamp Capital LLC, et al.、于 U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Connecticut（美国康涅狄格州联邦破产法院）审理的对抗程序 Adv. Pro. 23-05023 中，以及与其有关的任何判决后程序或上诉程序中，可能享有的一切法律或衡平法上的权利和救济，均明确予以保留；并进一步\n\n命令：受托人在收到净所得款项后五（5）个营业日内，应在第11章案件中提交一份报告，披露：(i) 出售 VCTR 股份的日期；(ii) VCTR 股份的售价；(iii) 所得总款项数额；(iv) 扣除的费用数额；以及 (v) 受托人收到的净所得款项数额；并进一步\n\n命令：授权受托人采取一切必要或适当行动以执行本命令；并进一步\n\n命令：在本命令录入后五（5）个营业日内，受托人应向 Merrill Lynch 提供填妥的 W-9 表格、政府签发的身份证件副本、电汇指示，以及 Merrill Lynch 为向受托人支付净所得款项而合理要求的任何其他文件；并进一步\n\n命令：Merrill Lynch 不负责且不得被视为负责与 VCTR 股份或净所得款项的清算和/或转让和/或分配有关或由此导致的任何税款或税务后果（视情况而定）；并进一步\n\n命令：Merrill Lynch 对为遵守本命令而采取的行动不承担责任；并进一步\n\n命令：本命令应依《破产程序规则》6004(h)于录入后立即可执行；并进一步\n\n送达证明\n\n下述签署人特此证明：上述修改动议连同附件 A 和 B 的真实、准确副本，已通过 CM/ECF 提交，并在提交时通过 CM/ECF 的自动电子邮件功能发送给在上述第11章案件（“第11章案件”）中出庭的所有当事人。\n\n此外，上述文件的真实、准确副本已于 June 18, 2024 通过电子邮件发送，并通过美国一级邮件邮寄给下列各通知当事人：\n\nCasey McGushin\nKIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP\n333 West Wolf Point Plaza\nChicago, IL 60654\ncasey.mcgushin@kirkland.com\nReverence Capital Partners Opportunities Fund I (Cayman) L.P. 的律师\n\nShawn R. Fox\nMcGuireWoods LLP\n1251 Avenue of the Americas\n20th Floor\nNew York, NY 10020-1104\nsfox@mcguirewoods.com\nMerrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated 的律师\n\nLax & Neville LLP\n收件人：Barry Lax、Robert J. Grand、Robert Miller 和 Jordan W. Schur\nEmpire State Building\n350 Fifth Avenue\nSuite 4640\nNew York, NY 10118\nblax@laxneville.com, rgrand@laxneville.com, rmiller@laxneville.com, schur@houser-law.com\n在 Despins ex rel. Kwok v. Lamp Capital LLC (In re Kwok), Case No. 22-50073 (JAM), Adv. P. No. 23-05023 (JAM) 一案中代表 Lamp Capital LLC 出庭的律师\n\n此外，上述文件的真实、准确副本已于 June 18, 2024 通过美国一级邮件邮寄给下列手工送达当事人，地址如下：\n\nAffiliated Adjustment Group, Ltd.\n3000 Marcus Avenue, Suite 3W3\nLake Success, NY 11042\n\nBravo Luck Limited\nP.O. Box 957\nOffshore Incorporations Centre\nRoad Town\nTortola, British Virgin Islands\n\nChao-Chih Chiu、Keyi Zilkie、Yunxia Wu 和 Huizhen Wang\nc/o TroyGould PC\n1801 Century Park East, 16th Floor\n收件人：Christopher A. Lilly\nLos Angeles, CA 90067-2367\n\nGregory A. Coleman\nColeman Worldwide Advisors, LLC\nPO Box 2839\nNew York, NY 10008-2839\n\nCorporate Creations Network, Inc.\n801 US Highway 1\nNorth Palm Beach, FL 33408\n\nDundon Advisers LLC\n10 Bank Street, Suite 1100\nWhite Plains, NY 10606\n\nEdmiston and Company Limited\n2 Marina Plaza\nNewport, RI 02840\n\nEisner Advisory Group LLC\n111 Wood Avenue South\nIselin, NJ 08830-2700\n\nIvey, Barnum & O'Mara LLC\n170 Mason Street\nGreenwich CT 06830\n\nXiaoxiao Lin\n24 Sonrisa\nIrvine, CA 92620\n\nXiaoming Liu\n5-16-50 Nemotomachi\nTajimi City\nGifu Prefecture, 5070065\n\nYuanlin Liu\n192 Pendleton Dr.\nAmherst, VA 24521\n\nStretto\n410 Exchange, Suite 100\nIrvine, CA 92602\n\nNing Zhao\n3611 Summer Ranch Dr.\nKaty, TX 77694\n\n/s/ James C. Graham\n\nJames C. Graham","key_entities":["Kwok","Je","Ho Wan Kwok","Despins","Guo","Miles Guo","Paul Hastings","Luc Despins"],"ecf_references":[{"doc_number":3203,"court":"CTB"},{"doc_number":3211,"court":"CTB"},{"doc_number":3212,"court":"CTB"},{"doc_number":3217,"court":"CTB"},{"doc_number":3234,"court":"CTB"},{"doc_number":3244,"court":"CTB"}],"word_count":5295,"status":"published","published_at":"2024-06-18 00:00:00","created_at":"2024-06-18","updated_at":"2026-08-23 18:53:49"}