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Hong Kong Case Law

Costs of attendance
  • 15 May 2012

    RE MF GLOBAL HONG KONG LTD

    Citation
    RE MF GLOBAL HONG KONG LTD
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCCW356/2011

    The court granted the provisional liquidators' application: it authorized a second interim distribution up to HK$400,000,000, authorized pooling of client money and pari passu interim payments, and held that the costs of MF Global Singapore's provisional liquidators for attending the 4 May 2012 hearing are to be taxed and paid out of client money prior to any final distribution and borne pari passu by qualifying clients, on the basis that the Singapore liquidators' attendance was reasonable and they subsequently withdrew their objection.