--- type: court_doc id: "court_ctb_891_0" court: "CTB" case_no: "22-50073" doc_number: 891 doc_type: "ORDER" filed_date: "2022-09-29" lang: "en" machine_translated: false url: "https://mubeitech.com/en/court/court_ctb_891_0" json_url: "https://mubeitech.com/api/court/court_ctb_891_0" --- # Guo Wengui / Miles Guo — bankruptcy case · ORDER · ECF #891 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. 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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. 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