Bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi has requested the courtroom to dismiss a chapter case filed by Sam Bankman-Fried’s (SBF) Emergent Know-how firm over a tussle to regulate 55 million Robinhood shares.
Disgraced FTX founder SBF owned 90% of shares in Emergent Know-how — an organization he co-founded with Gary Wang solely to buy Robinhood shares.
SBF reportedly used the Robinhood shares to safe a $600 million mortgage from BlockFi. Following FTX’s collapse, the Robinhood shares — price $455 million — had been seized by the U.S. authorities.
Emergent Know-how filed for chapter on Feb. 3, claiming that the 55 million Robinhood shares pledged to BlockFi belonged to its property.
Nevertheless, BlockFi filed a counter-motion on Feb. 16, arguing that Emergent’s chapter case was futile.
BlockFi argued that Emergent is ineligible for chapter safety beneath the chapter code as a result of it has no property within the United States.
“Emergent has no staff, no earnings, and no enterprise; its sole belongings had been shares in Robinhood Markets Inc.”
BlockFi claimed that Emergent’s chapter case was engineered to complement its joint provisional liquidators — Angela Barkhouse and Toni Shukla — who’re searching for to take over the Robinhood shares.
BlockFi has requested the U.S. chapter courtroom to dismiss Emergent’s chapter case provided that the corporate has no property to qualify for chapter safety.
