Zrušitve kriptovalut ustvarijo na stotine milijonov dolarjev za odvetnike

Zrušitve kriptovalut ustvarijo na stotine milijonov dolarjev za odvetnike

Časovni žig: 5. september 2023 7

Pravna industrija se je izkazala kot glavni zmagovalec med zlomom kriptovalut, kot sta FTX in Celsius, in je odvetnikom ustvarila na stotine milijonov dolarjev.

Lawyers, accountants, consultants, analysts and other professionals have zbrani 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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Pristojbine, zaračunane v primerih stečaja kriptovalut. Vir: The New York Times

Po podatkih so pravni strokovnjaki, vključeni v primer FTX, največji zmagovalci stečajev kriptovalut, ki so skupaj zaračunali 326 milijonov dolarjev. Odvetniška družba Sullivan & Cromwell, ki vodi stečaj FTX, je menda zaračunala več kot 110 milijonov dolarjev pravnih stroškov, poleg 500,000 dolarjev stroškov.

Andrew Dietderich je domnevno opozoril, da stroške povzroča zlasti pomanjkanje jasnih predpisov o kriptovalutah, zaradi česar so bili primeri bolj zapleteni in zamudni.

Kirkland & Ellis, ki se ukvarja s stečaji podjetij Celsius, Genesis in Voyager, je za svoje delo zaračunal 101 milijon dolarjev, z 2.5 milijona dolarjev stroškov, so povedali analitiki The New York Timesa. Alvarez & Marsal, podjetje za upravljanje preobratov, je menda zaračunalo več kot 125 milijonov dolarjev za svoje delo na FTX, Celsius in 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 pričati.

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