April 14, 2021
A Delaware federal judge on Tuesday appointed a retired Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP partner as special master to Crystallex's sale of Citgo's parent company, which is indirectly held by Venezuela, to enforce its $1.2 billion award against the country.
March 16, 2021
A Delaware judge has denied Venezuela's request to pause Crystallex's efforts to plan a sale of Citgo's parent company to satisfy a $1.2 billion judgment against the country, concluding Tuesday that Caracas hadn't shown it was likely to emerge victorious from an ongoing appeal at the Third Circuit.
March 01, 2021
Crystallex is pressing a Delaware federal judge to keep its efforts to sell Citgo's parent company to satisfy a $1.2 billion judgment against Venezuela on track during an ongoing appeal, arguing that the country's request for a stay marks the 13th time it's tried to delay the litigation.
February 12, 2021
Efforts by Crystallex to sell the parent company of Citgo to enforce a $1.2 billion arbitral award against Venezuela will go back to the Third Circuit, after appeals challenging a Delaware court order allowing the sale to proceed were filed.
January 14, 2021
A Delaware judge has given Crystallex the green light to forge ahead with a sale of Citgo's parent company to enforce its $1.2 billion award against Venezuela, ruling Thursday that every day the Canadian mining company goes unpaid "is arguably something of an affront to the United States judicial system."
October 26, 2020
A New York judge's order enforcing $1.68 billion in defaulted Venezuelan bonds doesn't mean that a judge in Delaware should forge ahead with a sale of Citgo's parent company so a Canadian mining company can enforce its $1.2 billion award against Caracas, the country is arguing.
October 22, 2020
Crystallex is pressing a Delaware federal judge to forge ahead with a sale of Citgo's parent company as other creditors of Venezuela begin to close in on the country's most valuable U.S. asset, pointing to a New York judge's order last week enforcing $1.68 billion in defaulted Venezuelan bonds.
September 17, 2020
Crystallex on Thursday asked a Delaware judge to set a January date for a sale of Citgo's parent company to enforce a $1.2 billion arbitral award against Venezuela, even as complicated questions relating to sanctions and U.S. national security concerns were debated during the same hearing.
August 31, 2020
The Trump administration is urging a Delaware judge to hold off from allowing Crystallex to sell shares in Citgo's parent company to enforce a $1.2 billion arbitral award against Venezuela, arguing Friday that U.S. foreign policy interests would otherwise be "needlessly imperiled."
July 17, 2020
A Delaware judge considering whether to dissolve his order allowing Crystallex to seize shares in Citgo's parent company to enforce a $1.2 billion arbitral award against Venezuela questioned on Friday whether the Third Circuit, which affirmed his decision, had left him the opportunity to do so.