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Judge freezes assets of crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital – The Washington Post

By Securities Docket on July 14, 2022, 8:00 am

A federal bankruptcy court has frozen the assets of Three Arrows Capital, the once-prominent crypto hedge fund that managed as much as $10 billion in assets until it fell into liquidation last month. In an emergency hearing Tuesday, Judge Martin Glenn of the Southern District of New York granted a motion allowing liquidators to “transfer, […]

Posted in Industry, Top | Tagged 3AC, Asset Freeze

Wyly brothers’ family fights SEC asset freeze in $550 million fraud | Dallas Morning News

By Securities Docket on June 25, 2015, 8:59 am

The Wyly brothers used gains from secret, illegal, offshore transactions “as their own personal piggybank,” the SEC had said ahead of a Wednesday appeals hearing in New York, where the family sought to lift a judge-imposed freeze on its assets. U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin’s order against 16 people, including both men’s wives and 10 […]

Posted in SEC, Top | Tagged Asset Freeze

How to Undo an SEC Asset Freeze: Write a Check

How to Undo an SEC Asset Freeze: Write a Check

By Securities Docket on July 29, 2011, 12:07 pm

One way to get out from under an asset freeze: write a check!

Posted in SEC, Top | Tagged Asset Freeze

SEC Obtains Asset Freezes Within Days of Alleged Insider Trading by Three Swiss Entities

SEC Obtains Asset Freezes Within Days of Alleged Insider Trading by Three Swiss Entities

By Securities Docket on July 19, 2011, 12:07 pm

SEC files complaint within days of the alleged insider trading.

Posted in SEC, Top | Tagged Asset Freeze

Madoff Family Members Agree to Asset Freeze

Madoff Family Members Agree to Asset Freeze

By Amanda Harding on February 7, 2010, 8:01 am

Madoff family members will have assets frozen pending current litigation.

Posted in Criminal | Tagged Asset Freeze, Madoff

FOX Business Video: Stanford Lawyer Permitted to Withdraw, Leaving Him With Public Defender

FOX Business Video: Stanford Lawyer Permitted to Withdraw, Leaving Him With Public Defender

By Securities Docket on September 15, 2009, 3:48 pm

Allen Stanford was back in court today on his attorney’s motion to withdraw as counsel.

Posted in Criminal | Tagged Asset Freeze, Stanford Financial

UK: SFO Reveals Asset Freeze on $100 Million of Stanford’s Assets

By Securities Docket on June 30, 2009, 9:34 am

The UK’s Serious Fraud Office disclosed today that it has frozen $100 million worth of assets linked to Allen Stanford.  The restraining order freezing the assets was requested by the US Department of Justice on more than $100 million “believed to be held at certain London financial institutions,” the Times Online reports. The SFO said […]

Posted in Global | Tagged Asset Freeze, Features, Stanford Financial

Step 1: Obtain $2.8 Billion Judgment; Step 2: Seek Asset Freeze

By Securities Docket on June 22, 2009, 2:07 pm

On Friday, attorneys for HealthSouth shareholders asked Alabama Circuit Judge Allwin E. Horn to freeze the assets of former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy, against whom they obtained a massive nearly $2.9 billion judgment last week. One of the attorneys acknowledged that there was no expectation of getting the full judgment from Scrushy, but said that […]

Posted in Class Actions | Tagged Asset Freeze, Derivative Actions | 3 Responses

SEC Opposes Stanford’s Motion to Unfreeze $10 Million for Legal Fees

By Securities Docket on May 4, 2009, 4:11 pm

In late April, following the SEC successfully obtaining a Preliminary Injunction freezing his assets, R. Allen Stanford’s moved to modify the Preliminary Injunction Order to permit him access to $10 million of the frozen funds to pay attorneys’ fees.   Today the SEC filed an Opposition to that motion, arguing that Stanford is not entitled […]

Posted in SEC | Tagged Asset Freeze, Features

Appeal of SEC’s Freeze of UK Citizen’s Assets Dismissed by UK Court

By Securities Docket on January 28, 2009, 11:20 pm

The SEC announced on Wednesday that the Supreme Court of Judicature Court of Appeal in the United Kingdom dismissed the appeal of Glenn Manterfield, a UK citizen, of an order by a British court freezing Manterfield’s assets. The High Court of Justice in London had previously issued the order freezing assets held in the United […]

Posted in SEC | Tagged Asset Freeze, UK

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