Guo Wengui / Miles Guo — bankruptcy case · ORDER · ECF #891

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Defendant
Guo Wengui / Miles Guo / Ho Wan Kwok
Court
CTB
Case No.
22-50073
ECF #
891
Type
ORDER
Filed
2022-09-29

FULL TEXT

AO 435 Case 22-50073 Case 22-50073 Doc 891 Doc 886 Filed 09/29/22

Filed 09/28/22 Entered 09/29/22 12:49:28

Entered 09/28/22 09:51:51 Page 1 of 10

(Rev. 04/18) ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES COURTS FOR COURT USE ONLY DUE DATE: Please Read Instructions: TRANSCRIPT ORDER

1. NAME 2. PHONE NUMBER 3. DATE Eric Henzy (203) 368-4234 9/28/2022

4. DELIVERY ADDRESS OR EMAIL 5. CITY 6. STATE 7. ZIP CODE ehenzy@zeislaw.com Bridgeport CT 06604 8. CASE NUMBER 9. JUDGE DATES OF PROCEEDINGS 22-50073 Judge Julie A. Manning 9/27/2022

9/27/2022 10. FROM 11. TO 12. CASE NAME LOCATION OF PROCEEDINGS Ho Wan Kwok Bridgeport 13. CITY 14. STATE Connecticut 15. ORDER FOR ' APPEAL ' CRIMINAL ' CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT ' BANKRUPTCY ' NON-APPEAL ' CIVIL ' IN FORMA PAUPERIS ' OTHER (Specify)

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(Interested Party)
Ho Wan Kwok
U. S. Trustee
(203)773-2210
(U.S. Trustee)
(Trustee)
(Trustee)
Office of the U.S. Trustee
Giaimo Federal Building
New Haven, CT 06510
150 Court Street, Room 302
USTPRegion02.NH.ECF@USDOJ.GOV

Zeisler & Zeisler PC 10 Middle Street 15th Floor Bridgeport, CT 06604 203-368-4234 203-367-9678 (fax) jcesaroni@zeislaw.com Assigned: 05/10/2022

Assigned: 07/14/2022 Holley L. Claiborn

Office of The United States Trustee The Giaimo Federal Building 150 Court Street, Room 302 New Haven, CT 06510 (203) 773-2210 (203) 773-2217 (fax) holley.l.claiborn@usdoj.gov Assigned: 02/28/2022

Luc A. Despins

Paul Hastings LLP 200 Park Avenue New York, NY 10166 212-318-6001 lucdespins@paulhastings.com Assigned: 07/12/2022

Luc A. Despins

Paul Hastings LLP 200 Park Avenue New York, NY 10166 212-318-6001 212-230-7771 (fax) lucdespins@pauhastings.com Assigned: 07/22/2022 LEAD ATTORNEY

David S. Forsh

Law Firm of Callari Partners, LLC One Rockefeller Plaza, 10th Floor New York, NY 10020 212-202-3050 732-243-0163 (fax) dforsh(@callaripartners.com Assigned: 03/17/2022 LEAD ATTORNEY

Peter Friedman

O'Melveny & Myers LLP 1625 Eye Street NW Washington, DC 20006 202-383-5302 pfriedman@omm.com Assigned: 02/25/2022 LEAD ATTORNEY

Irve J. Goldman Pullman & Comley 850 Main Street 8th Floor

373 Taconic Road representing Greenwich, CT 06831 (Debtor)

representing

Luc A. Despins Paul Hastings LLP 200 Park Avenue representing New York, NY 10166 212-318-6001 lucdespins@paulhastings.com

Luc A. Despins Paul Hastings LLP 200 Park Avenue representing New York, NY 10166 212-318-6001 lucdespins@paulhastings.com

representing
Rui Ma (20 Largest Creditor)
Weican Meng (20 Largest Creditor)
Zheng Wu (Creditor)
representing

Pacific Alliance Asia Opportunity Fund L.P. (20 Largest Creditor)

representing Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors (Creditor Committee)

Bridgeport, CT 06604 203-330-2000 203-576-8888 (fax) igoldman@pullcom.com Assigned: 04/05/2022

Evan S. Goldstein

Updike, Kelly & Spellacy, P.C. Goodwin Square 225 Asylum Street Ste 20th Floor Hartford, CT 06103 860-548-2609 860-548-2680 (fax) egoldstein@uks.com Assigned: 09/15/2022

Mia N. Gonzalez

O'Melveny & Myers LLP Times Square Tower 7 Times Square New York, NY 10036 212-728-5698 mgonzalez@omm.com Assigned: 04/08/2022 LEAD ATTORNEY

James C. Graham

Neubert, Pepe & Monteith, P.C. 195 Church Street, 13th Floor New Haven, CT 06510 (203)821-2000 (203)821-2009 (fax) jgraham@npmlaw.com Assigned: 07/20/2022

David V. Harbach, II

O'Melveny & Myers LLP 1625 Eye Street NW Washington, DC 20006 202-383-5127 dharbach@omm.com Assigned: 02/25/2022 LEAD ATTORNEY

Eric A. Henzy

Zeisler & Zeisler, P.C. 10 Middle Street 15th Floor Bridgeport, CT 06604 203-368-5495 203-549-0861 (fax) ehenzy@zeislaw.com Assigned: 07/14/2022

Assigned: 07/22/2022 Jeffrey L Jonas

Brown Rudnick LLP Seven Times Square New York, NY 10036 2122094800 212-209-4801 (fax) jjonas@brownrudnick.com Assigned: 04/21/2022 TERMINATED: 08/02/2022 LEAD ATTORNEY

representing
(Miscellaneous Proceeding Party)
Hing Chi Ngok
representing

Pacific Alliance Asia Opportunity Fund L.P. (20 Largest Creditor)

Paul Hastings LLP 200 Park Avenue representing New York, NY 10166 212-318-6001 lucdespins@paulhastings.com (Trustee)

Luc A. Despins
representing

Pacific Alliance Asia Opportunity Fund L.P. (20 Largest Creditor)

representing

Ho Wan Kwok 373 Taconic Road Greenwich, CT 06831 (Debtor)

representing

HK International Funds Investments (USA) Limited, LLC (Interested Party)

representing

Ho Wan Kwok 373 Taconic Road Greenwich, CT 06831 (Debtor)

Jonathan Kaplan

9/29/22, 12:00:00 22-50073 Doc 891 Filed 09/29/22 cantereed:36629622 12:49:28 Page 6 of 10

Pullman & Comley, LLC 90 State House Square Hartford, CT 06103 860-424-4379 860-424-4370 (fax) jkaplan@pullcom.com

Assigned: 04/05/2022 (Creditor Committee)

Stephen M. Kindseth Zeisler & Zeisler 10 Middle Street 15th Floor Bridgeport, CT 06604 (203) 368-4234 203-367-9678 (fax) skindseth(@zeislaw.com

Assigned: 04/11/2022 representing HK International Funds Investments (USA) Limited, LLC

(Interested Party)

Assigned: 05/10/2022 representing Mei Guo

(Interested Party)

Assigned: 07/14/2022 representing Ho Wan Kwok

373 Taconic Road Greenwich, CT 06831 (Debtor) Dylan Kletter Brown Rudnick LLP 185 Asylum Street Hartford, CT 06103 860-509-6500 dkletter@brownrudnick.com Assigned: 02/15/2022

TERMINATED: 08/02/2022 representing Ho Wan Kwok

373 Taconic Road Greenwich, CT 06831 (Debtor) Patrick R. Linsey

Neubert Pepe & Monteith, P.C.

195 Church St 13th Fl New Haven, CT 06510 203-821-2000 203-821-2009 (fax) plinsey@npmlaw.com Assigned: 07/11/2022 Luc A. Despins Paul Hastings LLP 200 Park Avenue representing New York, NY 10166 212-318-6001 lucdespins@paulhastings.com (Trustee) Avram Emmanuel Luft Paul Hastings LLP 200 Park Avenue New York, NY 10166 212-318-6079 212-303-7079 (fax) aviluft@paulhastings.com Assigned: 07/22/2022 LEAD ATTORNEY Luc A. Despins Paul Hastings LLP 200 Park Avenue representing New York, NY 10166 212-318-6001 lucdespins@paulhastings.com (Trustee) Steven E. Mackey Office of the U.S. Trustee The Giaimo Federal Building 150 Court Street, Room 302 New Haven, CT 06510 (203) 773-2210

Assigned: 03/22/2022 representing U. S. Trustee

Office of the U.S. Trustee Giaimo Federal Building 150 Court Street, Room 302 New Haven, CT 06510 (203)773-2210 USTPRegion02.NH.ECF@USDOJ.GOV (U.S. Trustee) Kristin B. Mayhew McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter 30 Jeliff Lane Southport, CT 06890 (203) 319-4011

203-259-0251 (fax) representing Rui Ma (20 Largest Creditor)

kmayhew@mdmc-law.com Assigned: 03/15/2022

> Weican Meng (20 Largest Creditor)
Zheng Wu (Creditor) Timothy D. Miltenberger

Cohn Birnbaum & Shea P.C. 100 Pearl Street 12th Floor Hartford, CT 06103 860-493-2200 Tmiltenberger@cbshealaw.com Assigned: 03/31/2022 TERMINATED: 08/17/2022

Aaron A Mitchell

Lawall & Mitchell, LLC 55 Madison Ave Suite 400 Morristown, NJ 07960 973-285-3280 aaron@lmesq.com Assigned: 07/11/2022

James M. Moriarty Zeisler & Zeisler, P.C. 10 Middle Street Bridgeport, CT 06604 203-368-4234 203-549-0907 (fax) jmoriarty@zeislaw.com Assigned: 07/20/2022

Sara Pahlavan

O'Melveny & Myers LLP Two Embarcadero Center 28th Floor San Francisco, CA 94111-3823 415-984-8953 spahlavan@omm.com Assigned: 05/05/2022 LEAD ATTORNEY

Lucas Bennett Rocklin

Neubert, Pepe, Monteith, P.C. 195 Church Street,13th Floor New Haven, CT 06510 203-821-2000 203-821-2009 (fax) lrocklin@npmlaw.com Assigned: 07/15/2022

Aaron Romney

Zeisler & Zeisler PC 10 Middle Street 15th Floor Bridgeport, CT 06604 203-368-4234 203-367-9678 (fax) aromney@zeislaw.com Assigned: 04/11/2022

Assigned: 05/10/2022
Assigned: 07/14/2022

Golden Spring (New York) LTD representing (Interested Party) PRO SE

representing

Ho Wan Kwok 373 Taconic Road Greenwich, CT 06831 (Debtor)

representing

373 Taconic Road Greenwich, CT 06831 (Debtor)

Ho Wan Kwok
representing

Pacific Alliance Asia Opportunity Fund L.P. (20 Largest Creditor)

Luc A. Despins Paul Hastings LLP 200 Park Avenue representing New York, NY 10166 212-318-6001 lucdespins@paulhastings.com (Trustee)

representing

HK International Funds Investments (USA) Limited, LLC (Interested Party)

representing
Mei Guo (Interested Party)

representing Ho Wan Kwok 373 Taconic Road Greenwich, CT 06831 (Debtor)

Scott D. Rosen

Cohn Birnbaum & Shea P.C.

100 Pearl Street 12th Floor Hartford, CT 06103-4500 (860) 493-2200 860-727-0361 (fax) srosen(a)cb-shea.com Assigned: 03/28/2022

TERMINATED: 08/17/2022 Golden Spring (New York) LTD

representing (Interested Party) PRO SE

Assigned: 08/12/2022 representing Cohn Birnbaum & Shea, P.C.

(Attorney) Thomas J. Sansone Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey LLP 195 Church Street P.O. Box 1950 New Haven, CT 06509-1950 (203) 784-3100 203-784-3199 (fax) tsansone@carmodylaw.com

Assigned: 06/24/2022 representing Chong Shen Raphanella

(Creditor) Rong Zhang (Creditor) Xiaodan Wang (Creditor)

Assigned: 07/15/2022 representing Michael S. Weinstein

(Attorney) Stuart M. Sarnoff O'Melveny & Myers LLP Times Square Tower 7 Times Square New York, NY 10036 202-326-2293 ssarnoff(@omm.com Assigned: 02/25/2022

LEAD ATTORNEY representing Pacific Alliance Asia Opportunity Fund L.P.

(20 Largest Creditor) Bennett Silverberg Brown Rudnick LLP Seven Times Square New York, NY 10036 212-209-4800 212-209-4801 (fax) bsilverberg@brownrudnick.com Assigned: 03/01/2022 TERMINATED: 08/02/2022 LEAD ATTORNEY representing Ho Wan Kwok 373 Taconic Road Greenwich, CT 06831 (Debtor) Douglas S. Skalka Neubert, Pepe, and Monteith 195 Church Street, 13th Floor New Haven, CT 06510 (203) 821-2000 203-821-2009 (fax) dskalka(@npmlaw.com Assigned: 07/14/2022 Luc A. Despins Paul Hastings LLP 200 Park Avenue representing New York, NY 10166 212-318-6001 lucdespins(a)paulhastings.com (Trustee) Annecca H. Smith Robinson & Cole, LLP 280 Trumbull Street Hartford, CT 06103

860-275-8325 representing Pacific Alliance Asia Opportunity Fund L.P.

(20 Largest Creditor)
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Honorable Julie A. Manning
Tuesday September 27 2022

02:00 PM 22- 50073 Ch: 11 Ho Wan Kwok Trustee: Luc A. Despins

Matter: HYB #707 Continued Status Conference

02:00 PM 22- 50073 Ch: 11 Ho Wan Kwok
Trustee: Luc A. Despins

Matter: HYB #807; Application to Employ Filed by Luc A. Despins on behalf of Luc A. Despins, Trustee

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