Anwar et al v. Fairfield Greenwich Limited et al

Filing 1209

JOINDER to join re: #1208 Memorandum of Law in Opposition to Motion,. Document filed by CITCO Bank Nederland N.V. Dublin Branch, CITCO Fund Services (Europe) B.V., Citco Canada Inc., Citco Fund Services (Bermuda) Limited, Citco Global Custody N.V., Citco Group Limited.(Gordon, Andrew)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
ANWAR, et al.,
Plaintiffs,

Master File No. 09-CV-0118 (VM)

v.
FAIRFIELD GREENWICH LIMITED, et al.,
Defendants.
This Document Relates To: All Actions

THE CITCO DEFENDANTS’ JOINDER IN THE LIMITED OBJECTION OF
PWC CANADA AND PWC NETHERLANDS TO PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR
FINAL APPROVAL OF THE GLOBEOP SETTLEMENT
Defendants, Citco Fund Services (Europe) B.V., Citco (Canada) Inc., Citco Bank
Nederland N.V. Dublin Branch, Citco Global Custody N.V., Citco Fund Services (Bermuda)
Limited, and The Citco Group Limited (collectively, the “Citco Defendants”), hereby join in
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PwC Canada”) and PricewaterhouseCoopers Accountants
N.V.’s (“PwC Netherlands”) (together, the “PwC Defendants”) Limited Objection to Plaintiffs’
Motion for Final Approval of the GlobeOp Settlement (“the PwC Defendants’ Objection”) (Dkt.
#1208).
For the reasons set forth in the PwC Defendants’ Objection, the Citco Defendants
object to Paragraph 15 of the Preliminary Approval Order (Dkt. #1189), to the extent that this
provision is to be included in the Court’s Final Approval Order.
The Citco Defendants, like the PwC Defendants, made this same objection to the
prior partial settlement involving the Fairfield Greenwich Group (“FGG”) Defendants, which
contained the same problematic provision. (FGG Preliminary Approval Order, Dkt. #1008 at

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¶ 17.)1 For the same reasons set forth in the PwC Defendants’ Objection, it is inequitable to
permit investors to reap the benefits of a settlement by one set of defendants in this action
without submitting to the jurisdiction of this Court and being bound by all aspects of this
litigation. Paragraph 15 of the Preliminary Approval Order, to the extent it is incorporated into
any final order, would unfairly preclude that argument in this Court.
The Citco Defendants further object to the Preliminary Approval Order’s unusual
jurisdictional provision because the funds GlobeOp Financial Services LLC (“GlobeOp”)
provided services to, Greenwich Sentry Partners L.P. and Greenwich Sentry L.P., were domestic
funds. Therefore, the vast majority of investors are United States residents. Some of Settlement
Class Members who submit a Request for Exclusion and take advantage of Paragraph 15 of the
Preliminary Approval Order are already in New York and subject to this Court’s jurisdiction.
These investors should not be able to take advantage of this provision to argue that they are not
subject to this Court’s jurisdiction. In addition, it would undermine the purpose of the class
action device to allow any of the Settlement Class Members located throughout the United States
to accept the benefits from the United States court system, without submitting to the jurisdiction
of this Court.
The Citco Defendants, like the PwC Defendants, expressly incorporate their prior
objection to the FGG settlement, and the filings and arguments made in connection therewith

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Both the PwC and Citco Defendants also previously objected to the inclusion of Paragraph 21 of the FGG
Preliminary Approval Order (Dkt. #1008 at ¶ 21), which improperly allowed members of the Settlement Class
to participate in the Proposed Settlement confidentially and under seal without disclosure to any other party in
this litigation. Subsequently, this Court approved an agreement between all parties to allow production of
proofs of claim and supporting documents, and documents sufficient to identify the opt-outs from the
settlement, so long as these were treated confidentially as per the terms of the agreed-upon Confidentiality
Order. (Dkt. #1153.) The Citco Defendants object to Paragraph 19 of the GlobeOp Preliminary Approval
Order for the same reasons as given previously regarding the FGG Preliminary Approval Order’s Paragraph 21.
The Citco Defendants note, however, that their objections can be solved by following the same type of proofs of
claim production procedure used for the FGG settlement.

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before this Court and the Court of Appeals. Similarly, the Citco Defendants also request that the
Court defer final approval of the GlobeOp settlement until the Court of Appeals decides the PwC
and Citco Defendants’ pending appeal of this issue in connection with the FGG settlement. As
noted by the PwC Defendants, if the Court does grant final approval to the GlobeOp settlement,
the Citco Defendants request that it do so mindful that the pending appeal may necessitate a
modification to the terms of the final order as it relates to the Court’s jurisdiction over settlement
class members who participate in the settlement process.
Accordingly, and for the additional reasons set out in the PwC Defendants’
Objection, the Citco Defendants respectfully submit that any Order issued by the Court
approving the proposed settlement should not contain the language proposed in Paragraph 15 of
the Preliminary Approval Order.

Dated: October 21, 2013

PAUL, WEISS, RIFKIND, WHARTON &
GARRISON LLP

New York, New York
/s/ Andrew G. Gordon
Brad S. Karp
Allan J. Arffa
Leslie Gordon Fagen
Andrew G. Gordon
Patrick J. Somers
1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10019-6064
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