{"id":"court_ctb_999_0","court":"CTB","case_no":"22-50073","doc_number":999,"sub_number":0,"doc_type":"ORDER","filed_date":null,"title":"UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT BRIDGEPORT DIVISION | -------------------------------------------","summary_zh":null,"summary_en":null,"body_en":"# **UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT BRIDGEPORT DIVISION**\n\n| ------------------------------------------------------X |                                   |\n|---------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|\n| In re:                                                  | :<br>:<br>Chapter 11              |\n| HO WAN KWOK,1                                           | :<br>:<br>Case No. 22-50073 (JAM) |\n| Debtor.                                                 | :<br>:<br>:<br>:                  |\n|                                                         | :<br>:                            |\n| ------------------------------------------------------X |                                   |\n\n# **MOTION TO EXPEDITE HEARING ON MOTION BY BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP FOR APPROVAL OF PROCEDURE FOR PRODUCTION IN RESPONSE TO SUBPOENA**\n\nPursuant to Fed. R. Bankr. P. 9006(c)(1), Baker & Hostetler LLP (\"B&H\") hereby moves (the \"Motion to Expedite\") this Court for an order scheduling an expedited hearing on October 21, 2022, at 10:00 a.m., or at time that is more convenient for the Court, to consider the *Motion by Baker & Hostetler LLP for Approval of Procedure for Production in Response to Subpoena* (the \"Production Procedure Motion\"). In support of the Motion to Expedite, B&H respectfully states as follows:\n\n# **JURISDICTION, VENUE AND STATUTORY BASIS**\n\n1. The United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Connecticut (the \"Court\") has jurisdiction over this matter pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 157 and 1334 and the Standing Order of Reference from the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (as amended). The\n\n<sup>1</sup> The Debtor is known by the following names: Guo Wengui; Miles Guo; Miles Kwok; and Ho Wan Kwok.\n\nProduction Procedure Motion and this Motion to Expedite are core proceedings within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 157(b).\n\n2. Venue in this District is proper pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1408 and 1409.\n\n3. The basis for relief sought by this Motion to Expedite is Fed. R. Bank. P. 9006(c)(1).\n\n# **RELEVANT FACTUAL BACKGROUND**\n\n4. On February 15, 2022, Ho Wan Kwok (the \"Debtor\") filed for relief under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code\n\n5. Prior to the petition date, B&H represented the Debtor in six lawsuits (the \"Pre-Petition Litigation\").<sup>2</sup> The Pre-Petition Litigation was stayed by the Debtor's filing of the abovecaptioned bankruptcy case.\n\n6. On or about August 22, 2022, the Chapter 11 Trustee (\"Trustee\") served B&H with a Rule 2004 Subpoena (Doc. No. 37, Ex. C-1) (the \"Subpoena\").\n\n7. After conferring with the Trustee's counsel and receiving extensions to the initial Subpoena deadline, B&H timely served its response and objections to the Subpoena on October 10, 2022 (the \"Response Deadline\")<sup>3</sup> and is working diligently to review and produce documents\n\n<sup>2</sup> The Pre-Petition Lawsuits are: (a) *Wu and Lan v. Kwok*, Index No. 152123/2018 in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York; (b) *Tang and Geng v. Kwok et al.*, Civil Action No. 1:17-cv-09031-JFK in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York; (c) *Fu v. Kwok et al.*, 7:20-cv-257-DC in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas (Midland/Odessa Division); (d) *Huang v. Kwok*, Index No. 156552/2017 in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York; (e) *Meng and Boxun Inc. v. Kwok*, Index No. 159636/2017 in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York; and (f) *Pacific Alliance Asia Opportunity Fund L.P. v. Kwok et al.*, Index No. 652077/2017 in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York.\n\n<sup>3</sup> For the avoidance of doubt, nothing herein is intended to waive or amend B&H's response to the Subpoena.\n\nby its extended production deadline of October 21, 2022 (the \"Production Deadline\"), to which the Trustee consented.\n\n8. B&H is working diligently to review and produce documents to the Trustee. As of the date of this Motion, B&H has more than fifty (50) professionals reviewing the approximately 60,000 documents that were identified as potentially responsive to the Subpoena using agreedupon search terms negotiated with the Trustee's counsel. B&H anticipates that the vast majority of responsive documents will be produced on the Production Deadline.\n\n9. Counsel for B&H and the Debtor's bankruptcy counsel have engaged in numerous discussions on the Debtor's \"personal harm\" privilege retained by the Debtor under Paragraph 7 of the *Consent Order Regarding Control of Attorney-Client Privilege and Work Product Protection Related to Rule 2004 Subpoenaed Documents and Information* (Doc. No. 856) (the \"Privileges Consent Order\").\n\n10. As a result of those discussions, B&H through the Production Procedure Motion, requests entry of an order permitting B&H to produce documents responsive to the Subpoena to the Trustee and the Debtor in accordance with the Privileges Consent Order under the procedure set forth in the Production Procedure Motion, to which the Debtor does not object:\n\n#### **RELIEF REQUESTED**\n\n11. Bankruptcy Rule 9006(c)(1) provides that the Court may reduce the notice period when requested by motion upon cause shown.\n\n12. B&H seeks to comply with the Subpoena, the Privileges Consent Order and uphold its ethical obligations to its client. As the Production Deadline is October 21st, B&H respectfully asserts that it is imperative that the Court swiftly adjudicate the Production Procedure Motion to\n\nreduce the risk of subsequent disputes regarding compliance with the Subpoena and the Privileges Consent Order.\n\n13. Thus, cause exists for the Court to grant this Motion to Expedite and to schedule an expedited hearing on the Production Procedure Motion.\n\n14. B&H requests that a hearing on the Production Procedure Motion be scheduled on October 21, 2022 at 10:00 a.m., or at time that is more convenient for the Court.\n\n15. B&H further requests that the Court direct that service of the Production Procedure Motion, proposed order, and the Court's order granting this Motion to Expedite, be served on all parties-in-interest appearing in the Chapter 11 Case qualified to receive electronic notice via the Court's CM/ECF service, as well as the Debtor, the Trustee, the Committee, and the United States Trustee, and that the Court set an appropriate deadline for parties to object to the Production Procedure Motion in advance of the hearing.\n\n## **CONCLUSION**\n\nWHEREFORE, B&H respectfully requests that the Court issue an order, substantially in the form attached hereto, setting a hearing on the Production Procedure Motion, ordering notice of such hearing as set forth in the attached order, and ordering such other and further relief as is just and proper.\n\nDated this 19th day of October, 2022 at New Haven Connecticut.\n\n## GREEN & SKLARZ LLC\n\n*/s/ Kellianne T. Baranowsky* Lawrence S. Grossman (ct15790) Kellianne T. Baranowsky (ct26684) Joanna M. Kornafel (ct29199) One Audubon Street, 3rd Floor New Haven, CT 06511 Tel.: 203-285-8545 Fax: 203-823-4546 [lgrossman@gs-lawfirm.com](mailto:lgrossman@gs-lawfirm.com) [kbaranowsky@gs-lawfirm.com](mailto:kbaranowsky@gs-lawfirm.com) [jkornafel@gs-lawfirm.com](mailto:jkornafel@gs-lawfirm.com)\n\n# BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP\n\nAndrew Layden, FL Bar. No.: 86070 *Pro Hac Vice* Danielle Merola, FL Bar. No.: 120120 *Pro Hac Vice* Baker Hostetler LLP 200 South Orange Avenue, Suite 2300 Orlando, Florida 32801-3432 (407) 649-4000 [alayden@bakerlaw.com](mailto:alayden@bakerlaw.com) [dmerola@bakerlaw.com](mailto:dmerola@bakerlaw.com)","body_zh":"UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT BRIDGEPORT DIVISION（美国康涅狄格区破产法院布里奇波特分院）\n\n关于：:\n:\n第11章（Chapter 11）\nHO WAN KWOK（郭文贵），1 :\n:\n案号：22-50073 (JAM)\n债务人。:\n\n就 BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP 申请批准响应传票之文件提供程序动议申请加快听证的动议\n\n根据《联邦破产诉讼规则》（Fed. R. Bankr. P.）第 9006(c)(1) 条，Baker & Hostetler LLP（贝克豪斯泰勒律师事务所，下称“B&H”）特此向本法院提出动议（下称“加快动议”），请求作出命令，安排于 2022年10月21日 上午 10:00，或法院认为更为便利的时间举行加快听证，以审议 Baker & Hostetler LLP 申请批准响应传票之文件提供程序的动议（下称“文件提供程序动议”）。为支持加快动议，B&H 谨陈述如下：\n管辖权、审判地及法定依据\n\n1. 根据 28 U.S.C. §§ 157 及 1334 以及 United States District Court for the District of Connecticut（美国康涅狄格区联邦地方法院）的常规移送命令（经修订），United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Connecticut（美国康涅狄格区破产法院，下称“本法院”）对本事项拥有管辖权。\n\n1 债务人亦使用下列姓名：Guo Wengui（郭文贵）；Miles Guo；Miles Kwok；以及 Ho Wan Kwok。\n\n文件提供程序动议及本加快动议属于 28 U.S.C. § 157(b) 所指的核心程序。\n\n2. 根据 28 U.S.C. §§ 1408 及 1409，本司法区的审判地适格。\n\n3. 本加快动议所寻求救济的依据为 Fed. R. Bank. P. 9006(c)(1)。\n相关事实背景\n\n4. 2022年2月15日，Ho Wan Kwok（债务人）依据《破产法典》（Bankruptcy Code）第11章申请破产救济。\n\n5. 在申请日之前，B&H 在六起诉讼（下称“申请前诉讼”）中代表债务人。2 申请前诉讼因债务人提起上述标题所示破产案件而中止。\n\n6. 2022年8月22日 左右，第11章受托人（下称“受托人”）向 B&H 送达了一份第2004条传票（文件编号：Doc. No. 37，附件：Ex. C-1）（下称“传票”）。\n\n7. 在与受托人律师协商并获得对最初传票截止日期的延期后，B&H 于 2022年10月10日（下称“答辩截止日”）3 及时送达了对传票的答辩和异议，并正努力审查并提供文件，\n\n2 申请前诉讼包括：(a) Wu and Lan 诉 Kwok，纽约州最高法院纽约县分院（Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York），索引号：Index No. 152123/2018；(b) Tang and Geng 诉 Kwok 等人，United States District Court for the Southern District of New York（美国纽约南区联邦地方法院），民事案号：Civil Action No. 1:17-cv-09031-JFK；(c) Fu 诉 Kwok 等人，United States District Court for the Western District of Texas (Midland/Odessa Division)（美国德克萨斯西区联邦地方法院米德兰/敖德萨分院），案号：7:20-cv-257-DC；(d) Huang 诉 Kwok，纽约州最高法院纽约县分院，索引号：Index No. 156552/2017；(e) Meng and Boxun Inc. 诉 Kwok，纽约州最高法院纽约县分院，索引号：Index No. 159636/2017；以及 (f) Pacific Alliance Asia Opportunity Fund L.P. 诉 Kwok 等人，纽约州最高法院纽约县分院，索引号：Index No. 652077/2017。\n\n3 为免生疑问，本文件中的任何内容均无意放弃或修改 B&H 对传票的答辩。\n\n争取在其延期至 2022年10月21日 的文件提供截止日期（下称“文件提供截止日”）前完成，该延期已获受托人同意。\n\n8. B&H 正努力进行审查并向受托人提供文件。截至本动议提出之日，B&H 已有五十（50）多名专业人员在审查使用与受托人律师协商达成的一致搜索词所确定的约 60,000 份可能符合传票要求的文件。B&H 预计绝大多数符合要求的文件将在文件提供截止日予以提供。\n\n9. B&H 的律师与债务人的破产律师已就债务人根据《关于涉及第2004条传票调取文件及信息之律师-委托人保密特权及工作成果保护控制权的合意裁定》（文件编号：Doc. No. 856）（下称“特权合意裁定”）第7段所保留的“人身损害”特权进行了多次讨论。\n\n10. 基于上述讨论，B&H 通过文件提供程序动议，请求法院作出命令，允许 B&H 按照特权合意裁定并在文件提供程序动议所载程序下，向受托人及债务人提供符合传票要求的文件，债务人对此不持异议：\n所请求的救济\n\n11. 《破产规则》（Bankruptcy Rule）第 9006(c)(1) 条规定，经动议提出并释明理由后，法院可缩短通知期限。\n\n12. B&H 寻求遵守传票、特权合意裁定并履行其对客户的职业道德义务。鉴于文件提供截止日为 10月21日，B&H 谨认为，法院必须迅速对文件提供程序动议作出裁决，以\n\n降低随后发生关于遵守传票及特权合意裁定之争议的风险。\n\n13. 因此，存在充分理由支持法院批准本加快动议，并就文件提供程序动议安排加快听证。\n\n14. B&H 请求将文件提供程序动议的听证安排在 2022年10月21日 上午 10:00，或法院认为更为便利的时间。\n\n15. B&H 进一步请求法院指示，将文件提供程序动议、拟定裁定以及法院批准本加快动议的裁定送达至在本第11章案件中出庭且有资格通过法院 CM/ECF 系统接收电子通知的所有利害关系方，以及债务人、受托人、债权人委员会（the Committee）和 United States Trustee（联邦破产受托人），并请求法院设定适当的截止日期，供各方在听证前对文件提供程序动议提出异议。\n结论\n\n综上所述，B&H 谨请求法院作出大体采用本动议附件形式的裁定，确定文件提供程序动议的听证时间，按所附裁定之规定下令发出此类听证通知，并下令给予公正、适当的其他及进一步救济。\n\n日期：2022年10月19日 于康涅狄格州纽黑文。\nGREEN & SKLARZ LLC\n\n/签名/ Kellianne T. Baranowsky Lawrence S. Grossman (ct15790) Kellianne T. Baranowsky (ct26684) Joanna M. Kornafel (ct29199) One Audubon Street, 3rd Floor New Haven, CT 06511 电话：203-285-8545 传真：203-823-4546 [lgrossman@gs-lawfirm.com] [kbaranowsky@gs-lawfirm.com] [jkornafel@gs-lawfirm.com]\nBAKER & HOSTETLER LLP\n\nAndrew Layden，佛罗里达州执业律师号：86070 特许出庭律师（Pro Hac Vice） Danielle Merola，佛罗里达州执业律师号：120120 特许出庭律师（Pro Hac Vice） Baker Hostetler LLP 200 South Orange Avenue, Suite 2300 Orlando, Florida 32801-3432 (407) 649-4000 [alayden@bakerlaw.com] [dmerola@bakerlaw.com]","key_entities":["Kwok","Ho Wan Kwok","Je","Guo","Miles Guo","CIPA"],"ecf_references":[],"word_count":1108,"status":"published","published_at":null,"created_at":null,"updated_at":"2026-08-23 12:46:54"}