Prăbușirile criptografice generează sute de milioane de dolari pentru avocați

Prăbușirile criptografice generează sute de milioane de dolari pentru avocați

Industria juridică a devenit un câștigător major pe fondul colapsurilor criptomonedelor precum FTX și Celsius, generând sute de milioane de dolari pentru avocați.

Lawyers, accountants, consultants, analysts and other professionals have adunat at least $700 million in fees from the bankruptcies of major crypto firms over the past year, according to a report and an analysis by The New York Times.

The calculated amount includes the costs charged as part of the crypto bankruptcy cases of five crypto firms — FTX, Celsius Network, Voyager Digital, BlockFi and Genesis Global — between July 5, 2022, and July 31, 2023. The figure is likely to grow significantly as the cases unfold in the near future, with Sam Bankman Fried’s trial coming in October.

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Taxele percepute în cazurile de faliment cripto. Sursa: The New York Times

Potrivit datelor, experții juridici implicați în cazul FTX sunt cei mai mari câștigători ai falimentelor în criptomonede, percepând un total de 326 de milioane de dolari. Firma de avocatură Sullivan & Cromwell, care gestionează falimentul FTX, a perceput taxe legale de peste 110 milioane de dolari, în plus față de cheltuieli de 500,000 de dolari.

Andrew Dietderich a remarcat că costurile sunt determinate în special de lipsa unor reglementări clare privind criptomoneda, ceea ce a făcut cazurile mai complexe și mai consumatoare de timp.

Kirkland & Ellis, care se ocupă de falimentele Celsius, Genesis și Voyager, a facturat 101 milioane de dolari pentru munca sa, cu cheltuieli de 2.5 milioane de dolari, au declarat analiștii The New York Times. Alvarez & Marsal, o firmă de management de redresare, a perceput peste 125 de milioane de dolari pentru munca sa pe FTX, Celsius și Genesis.

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Some of the initial reports indicating that firms such as Sullivan & Cromwell would reap a fortune from their crypto bankruptcy work surfaced in January 2023. The firm reportedly had more than 150 people working on the FTX case at the time, including 30 partners with rates exceeding $2,000 per hour.

Amid concerns over high legal fees, the United States bankruptcy court appointed Katherine Stadler as fee examiner for the FTX case. In June, Stadler reported that the team working on FTX had requested more than $200 million in fees since the November bankruptcy, stating that the fees were reasonable.

Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried’s legal team is continuing to fight against the United States Department of Justice, asking the court on Sept. 1 to deny all recent requests by the authority. As previously reported by Cointelegraph, one of the DOJ’s requests included an appeal to ban all of SBF’s seven expert witnesses from testifying in court. Some of the witnesses could cost SBF up to $1,200 per hour to testify.

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