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So SCO dies, but the lawsuits may live on? | 279 comments | Create New Account
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So SCO dies, but the lawsuits may live on?
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 29 2012 @ 11:17 PM EDT
Do you mean "clown"? :-)

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So SCO dies, but the lawsuits may live on?
Authored by: mpellatt on Thursday, August 30 2012 @ 06:37 AM EDT
From what I remember, the lenders thought they'd got a lien
on the litigation via their loan, but it turned out that Cahn
was even slimier and stitched them up in a later agreement.

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So SCO dies, but the lawsuits may live on?
Authored by: Steve Martin on Thursday, August 30 2012 @ 06:54 AM EDT

I think they were already purchased with the slimy loan, but I could be wrong.

I don't think they were.

According to Article VII of the loan agreement between The SCO Group and Seung Ni Capital Partners (aka the Yarro Loan Deal), the Trustee's filing for Chapter 7 constitutes a default on the loan:

In case of the happening of any of the following events (each, an "Event of Default" and together, "Events of Default"):

[...]

(i) Either of the cases constituting the Bankruptcy Case shall be dismissed (or the Bankruptcy Court shall make a ruling requiring the dismissal of either of the cases constituting the Bankruptcy Case), suspended or converted to a case under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy code, or the Borrower shall file any pleading requesting such relief; [...]

(emphasis added) So TSG has already, by definition, defaulted on the loan agreement. But the same section of the agreement goes on to say:

In the event the Debtor fails either to cure the Default or obtain a scheduled court hearing with regard ot the Default, the automatic stay provided in Section 362 of the Bankruptcy Code shall be deemed automatically vacated without further action or order of the Bankruptcy Court, and the Lender shall be entitled to exercise all of its respective rights and remedies under the Loan Documents, including all rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral; provided, however, Lender shall have no right to take any action with respect to the Litigation.

So even in default, this agreement (which both parties and the Court agreed to) appears to say that the Litigation does not automatically go to the Lenders.

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