November 04, 2013
Former MF Global Holdings Ltd. CEO Jon S. Corzine urged a New York bankruptcy court on Friday to toss an amended suit launched by the brokerage's bankruptcy trustee, who alleged Corzine and other executives masterminded a scheme to inflate MF Global's stock price and ultimately caused the company's downfall.
October 31, 2013
MF Global Holdings Ltd. on Wednesday sued a unit of private equity firm J. C. Flowers & Co. and a group of unidentified investors over $20 million in dividends they reaped before the brokerage descended into bankruptcy.
October 29, 2013
Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP and Proskauer Rose LLP on Tuesday received a bankruptcy judge's approval of their request for a combined $8.8 million in attorneys' fees for their work on MF Global Holdings Ltd.'s case over the objections of the fallen brokerage's plan administrator.
October 22, 2013
The Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan administrator for MF Global Holdings Ltd. told a New York bankruptcy court on Tuesday that the $5 million in attorney fees requested by Proskauer Rose LLP and Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP are exorbitant and should be trimmed.
September 23, 2013
Former MF Global Holdings Ltd. workers on Friday challenged a bankruptcy judge's reasoning for dismissing their Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act putative class action, including his finding that their pleadings did not include enough detail with respect to which MF Global entity they were employed by.
September 06, 2013
Workers who said they were terminated without proper warning after MF Global Holdings Ltd. went bankrupt in 2011 said Friday they are challenging a New York bankruptcy judge's dismissal of their Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act class action.
August 23, 2013
A New York bankruptcy judge on Friday tossed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification class action against MF Global Holdings Ltd., faulting the plaintiffs for relying on the "single employer" doctrine instead of identifying which specific MF Global entity employed them.
July 29, 2013
An attorney for MF Global Holdings Ltd.'s trustee urged a bankruptcy judge Monday to throw out a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification class action, saying the plaintiffs' second amended complaint failed to identify which MF Global entity actually employed the workers.
July 25, 2013
MF Global Holdings Ltd. and JPMorgan Chase Bank NA asked a New York bankruptcy court Wednesday to approve a new settlement under which MF Global's estate will get a share of what the bank recovers from the collapsed brokerage's Chapter 11 trustee.
July 23, 2013
Former MF Global Holdings Ltd. CEO Jon Corzine on Monday urged a bankruptcy court in Manhattan to throw out the lawsuit accusing him and two other former executives of sinking the company through a dodgy trading strategy, arguing they are protected by the business judgment rule.