Tag: Robert Cohen

• Thursday, October 29th 2015 - 06:31 UTC

  Argentina: Holdouts dispute, a Cristina Fernandez legacy for the next government

  

  US District Judge Thomas Griesa of New York on Wednesday urged Argentina to resume talks to settle bondholder litigation flowing from its $100 billion default in 2002. The judge made the remarks as creditors suing over defaulted bonds urged him to expand to nearly $8 billion the amount Argentina must pay them to service its restructured debts.

• Tuesday, October 7th 2014 - 00:53 UTC

  Holdouts insist they want to negotiate with Argentina a solution to bonds dispute

  

  Lawyer Robert Cohen representing NML, the main holdout fund in litigation with Argentina, insisted that his client is prepared and willing “to negotiate” but also questioned the government of President Cristina Fernandez attitude during the court hearings in New York over the restructured debt.

• Thursday, September 11th 2014 - 04:48 UTC

  Judge Griesa will wait for appeals court ruling before acting on holdouts' Citibank subpoena

  

  US district judge Thomas Griesa has said he would wait for a decision on a pending appeal before ordering Citigroup to comply with a subpoena served by holdout investors seeking details of any threats from Argentina to process payments the court had blocked.

• Friday, August 22nd 2014 - 07:17 UTC

  Griesa leaves Argentina 'in contempt' ledge; warns any change of jurisdiction was 'lawless'

  

  US District Judge Thomas Griesa declared on Thursday that an Argentine plan to change the 'jurisdiction' of restructured foreign debt was illegal, while resisting holdout investors' demands that Argentina be held in contempt of court for attempting to change the site of payment to Buenos Aires.

• Thursday, June 19th 2014 - 02:26 UTC

  Griesa does not trust Cristina Fernandez and condemns the word “extortionist”

  

  US Judge Tomas Griesa said on Wednesday that the televised speech delivered by President Cristina Fernández on Monday after the US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by Argentina in its battle against the holdouts was “a problem” for negotiations and implied he did not trust the Argentine leader.

• Wednesday, March 26th 2014 - 05:54 UTC

  NML Capital targets Argentina's contract for satellite launches with private US company

  

  An Argentine bondholder seeking to collect on hundreds of millions of dollars in judgments stemming from the country's historic 2002 default filed a lawsuit on Tuesday aiming to take control of the country's rights under a contract for satellite launches with a private US firm.