Voyager bankruptcy plan approved, customers may recover 35.7% of claims initially

Crypto brokerage Voyager’s bankruptcy plan was permitted by the USA Bankruptcy Court docket for the Southern District of New York on May 17, in line with a Reuters report. Decide Michael Wiles’ order approving the process was published by the court docket a day earlier. 

The so-called third bankruptcy plan was proposed on May 5 after Binance.US backed out of plans to purchase $1 billion price of Voyager belongings on April 25. That deal had overcome resistance from the U.S. authorities earlier than Binance.US’ last-minute reversal. Voyager will now liquidate — that’s, distribute its belongings to its collectors.

Why are attorneys & executives for #Voyager not forfeiting their pay in the event that they did not do their jobs, particularly when many are working different #crypto bankruptcy circumstances?

In what different business are you able to fail at actually the whole lot & nonetheless come out with tens of millions?

Make it make sense. https://t.co/BQEu0J9h9H

— VGX Heroes (@VGX_Heroes) May 15, 2023

In September, earlier than the Binance.US deal, FTX US had received an public sale for Voyager’s belongings, bidding $1.4 billion, however that sale fell by when FTX collapsed. The FTX sale would reportedly have allowed creditors to obtain 72% of the worth of their accounts. FTX sued Voyager for $445.8 million in January, claiming mortgage repayments it made in 2022 are liable to clawback as a result of they occurred instantly previous to FTX’s bankruptcy.

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Voyager said on its web site that customers may now count on to obtain 35.72% of their claims initially, both in crypto by the Voyager app or in money after 30 days. In keeping with Voyager, it had $1.33 billion of belongings for restoration as of May 8, of which $629.8 million was out there for preliminary restoration, on claims of $1.8 billion.

Customers with crypto of their account(s) will obtain in change a mixture of the crypto of their account(s), proceeds from the 3AC restoration, widespread shares within the newly reorganized Firm, and Voyager tokens.

— Stephen Ehrlich (@Ehrls15) July 6, 2022

The dimensions of the collectors’ preliminary restoration may improve if FTX/Alameda Analysis’s declare for preferential restoration is unsuccessful. Voyager is holding again $445 million to cowl that declare. As well as, Voyager may nonetheless recover funds from bankrupt Three Arrows Capital. Voyager issued a notice of default to Three Arrows on a mortgage of 15,250 Bitcoin (BTC) and 350 million USD Coin (USDC) in late June. These belongings have been price $655 million then and roughly $768 million on the time of writing.

Voyager filed for bankruptcy on July 5.

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