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Lakah et al v. UBS AG et al

  1. May 27, 2016

    No More Delays For $100M Egypt Bond Debt Trial

    A July trial on whether businessmen Ramy and Michel Lakah can be held liable in arbitration to debt investors including UBS AG for $100 million in bonds issued to businesses the Egyptian brothers controlled is going forward regardless of Ramy Lakah's purported trouble in obtaining a visa, a Manhattan federal judge said Friday.

  2. May 23, 2016

    Mintz Levin Attys Fight Sanctions Bid In $100M Bond Suit

    Bondholders fighting to arbitrate a dispute with two Egyptian businessmen over $100 million in defaulted bonds issued by their companies asked a New York federal judge Friday to refrain from imposing sanctions on their lawyers at Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo PC and elsewhere for refiling a thrice-rejected "ambush deposition."

  3. May 18, 2016

    Egyptian Bros. Seek Atty Sanctions For Refiled 'Ambush' Depo

    Two Egyptian businessmen trying to avoid being pulled into arbitration over $100 million in defaulted bonds issued by their companies urged a New York federal judge on Tuesday to sanction the bondholders' lawyers at Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo PC and elsewhere for refiling a thrice-rejected "ambush deposition."

  4. April 22, 2016

    Egyptian Brothers Can't Revisit Some Evidence In $100M Row

    Two Egyptian business owners accused of failing to pay $100 million in bond debt cannot relitigate a finding that certain evidence is admissible at an upcoming trial on their bid to stay arbitration proceedings in the dispute, a New York federal judge has ruled.

  5. April 12, 2016

    Bondholders Say Lakahs Ignored Rules In Evidence Dispute

    Bondholders looking to drag Egyptian businessmen Ramy and Michel Lakah into arbitration over $100 million in defaulted debt told a New York federal court Monday that the brothers' request to admit hundreds of facts years after discovery was closed was filed in bad faith, came too late and should be denied on several grounds.

  6. March 14, 2016

    Lakahs Reviving Old Arguments In Evidence Row, Court Told

    Bondholders looking to drag Egyptian businessmen Ramy and Michel Lakah into international arbitration over $100 million in defaulted debt told a New York federal court Monday that the brothers are rehashing old arguments in their bid to exclude certain Egyptian government reports and other documents from an upcoming trial.

  7. March 10, 2016

    UBS Says 2011 Depositions Not Off Limits In Egypt Bond Case

    UBS AG and other financial institutions seeking to arbitrate their claims in the nonpayment of $100 million in bonds by Egyptian business owners told a New York federal judge Thursday that the owners have no legal basis for objecting to the introduction of witness testimony in an upcoming trial.

  8. March 09, 2016

    UBS Wants Evidence Challenge Axed In Egypt Bond Case

    UBS AG and other holders of Egyptian corporate debt who seek to drag the companies' owners into arbitration asked a New York federal judge Thursday to toss the owners' objections to evidence they may present at trial, which the owners say contains forgeries and unauthenticated government reports that amount to "hearsay within hearsay."

  9. February 09, 2016

    Visa Trouble Could Delay $100M Egypt Bond Trial, Judge Told

    A long-awaited trial in a New York federal lawsuit between bondholders including UBS AG and Egyptian businessmen Ramy and Michel Lakah over whether the brothers must arbitrate over $100 million in defaulted debt guaranteed by their companies could be delayed by bureaucratic snags, according to letters filed Monday and Tuesday.

  10. February 04, 2016

    UBS Blasts Shifting Arguments In $100M Egypt Bond Case

    UBS AG and other banks seeking to drag two Egyptian brothers into arbitration over $100 million in defaulted bond debt asked a New York federal judge Thursday to prevent Michel and Ramy Lakah from asserting at trial arguments they allegedly disclaimed at the outset of the case.