Guo Wengui / Miles Guo — bankruptcy case · ORDER · ECF #561-1

Case 22-50073 Doc 561-1 Filed 07/15/22 Entered 07/15/22 16:45:27 Page 2 of 4

UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT BRIDGEPORT DIVISION In Re \* Case No. 22-50073 (JAM) \* HO WAN KWOK, \* Bridgeport, Connecticut \* July 8, 2022 Debtor. \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* TRANSCRIPT OF APPLICATION FOR ORDER APPROVING APPOINTMENT OF CHAPTER 11 TRUSTEE BEFORE THE HONORABLE JULIE A. MANNING UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY JUDGE APPEARANCES: For the Debtor: WILLIAM R. BALDIGA, ESQ. Brown Rudnick, LLP Seven Times Square New York, NY 10036 For the Creditor, Pacific PETER FRIEDMAN, ESQ. Alliance Asia Opportunity STUART M. SARNOFF, ESQ. Fund L.P.: O'Melveny & Myers LLP Times Square Tower 7 Times Square New York, NY 10036 PATRICK BIRNEY, ESQ. Robinson & Cole 28 Trumbull Street Hartford, CT 06103 Proceedings recorded by electronic sound recording, transcript produced by transcription service. Fiore Reporting and Transcription Service, Inc. 4 Research Drive, Suite 402 Shelton, Connecticut 06484 (203)929-9992

address the Court and explain. And, again, that will be followed by a supplemental disclosure that will be filed with the Court as soon as possible in the hope that that is within a matter of just a day or two. So, with that, Your Honor, if I could ask Mr. Despins to address the Court about the supplemental disclosures that are not yet before the Court in writing? THE COURT: Yes, please. Go right ahead. MR. DESPINS: Good morning, Your Honor. As I stated in paragraph 11 of my declaration, I said that to the extent we learned of new connections that were not known to us at the time I submitted the declaration, we would update our disclosure statement and I will do that in writing. But I wanted to make sure today that I mentioned to the Court that we discovered last night that we have in the past represented entities that have -- that are -- have the acronym PAG in them, P-A-G. Unbeknownst to our conflict system, PAG means Pacific Asia Group. And those entities -- and, again, as I said, these are representations that were completed, but these entities are unrelated to the Kwok matter in any way. However, PAX is probably managed by a similar or a PAG entity of some kind. We're trying to figure out exactly which one.

Case 22-50073 Doc 561-1 Filed 07/15/22 Entered 07/15/22 16:45:27 Page 4 of 4 1 Trustee's application for an order approving the appointment 2 of a Chapter 11 trustee is granted and the proposed order 3 will enter. 4 MS. CLAIBORN: Thank you, Your Honor. 5 THE COURT: All right. Thank you, all. 6 MR. DESPINS: Thank you, Your Honor. 7 THE COURT:

8 calendar this morning, so court is adjourned.

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