FTX loses $53K every hour on ‘bankruptcy fees,’ latest filings show


Within the three months ending Oct. 31, defunct crypto trade FTX has been burning by roughly $53,000 each hour on chapter attorneys and advisers, the newest spherical of compensation filings present. 

Court docket filings from Dec. 5 to Dec. 16 present that the chapter attorneys have charged at the least $118.1 million between Aug. 1 and Oct. 31. Over the 92 days, this quantities to $1.3 million per day or $53,300 per hour.  

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The most important invoice got here from the administration consulting agency Alvarez and Marshall, which charged $35.8 million for its companies for the three months.

Alvarez and Marshall charged a complete of $35.8 million in charges to the FTX property. Supply: CourtListener

Coming in second place was world legislation agency Sullivan & Cromwell, which charged $31.8 million for its companies. The hourly fee for Sullivan & Cromwell’s companies averaged $1,230 per hour.

Sullivan and Cromwell’s companies value FTX collectors $1,230 per hour. Supply: CourtListener

World consulting agency AlixPartners charged $13.3 million within the interval for skilled companies referring to forensic investigations. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan charged $10.4 million in the identical interval, whereas a number of different billings from smaller advisory companies added as much as over $26.8 million.

Figures shared by a pseudonymous FTX creditor in a Dec. 17 put up on X (previously Twitter) recommend the full authorized charges which have been absolutely paid since the FTX bankruptcy case began is roughly $350 million.

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In the meantime, an earlier report filed on Dec. 5 by the court-appointed charge examiner, Katherine Stadler, recognized “important areas of concern” with the billings submitted by the bigger advisory companies, together with Sullivan & Cromwell, Alvarez & Marshall and others between Might 1 and June 31.

“The Price Examiner recognized apparently top-heavy staffing, apparently extreme assembly attendance, charges associated to non-working journey time, and numerous technical and procedural deficiencies with respect to a while entries (together with obscure and lumped entries),” states the report relating to the billings submitted by Alvarez & Marshall.

Advisory companies had been criticized for over-billing by the instances’ Price Examiner. Supply: CourtListener

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