Publication Date: 2024-09-10
Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
Industry: Legal Services | Retail
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Fioravanti
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Adam Hiller, Hiller Law, LLC, Wilmington, DE for assignee.
for defendant: Daniel K. Astin, Ryan M. Ernst, Ciardi Ciardi & Astin, Wilmington, DE; Albert A. Ciardi III, Walter W. Gouldsbury III, Ciardi Ciardi & Astin, Philadelphia, PA; Frederick B. Rosner, The Rosner Law Group LLC, Wilmington, DE; Marc J. Kurzman, Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey LLP, Stamford, CT for creditors.
Case Number: 2019-0650-PAF
Court denied assignee's motion for final distribution and removed assignee upon finding that it had failed to comply with the requirements of the ABC statute and had engaged in apparent self-dealing, including structuring compensation from expenses and then hiring its affiliates to provide seemingly unnecessary services to the trust, such that the assignee failed to act in creditors' best interests.