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PICARD v. FAIRFIELD GREENWICH LTD.

Docket Nos. 13-1289, 13-1392, 13-1785.

762 F.3d 199 (2014)

Irving H. PICARD, Trustee for the Liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, Appellant, v. FAIRFIELD GREENWICH LIMITED, et al., Defendants-Appellees, Securities & Investment Co. Bahrain, Harel Insurance Co., Ltd., AXA Private Management, St. Stephen's School, Pacific West Health Medical Center, Inc. Employee's Retirement Trust, Lead Plaintiffs-Appellees. Irving H. Picard, Trustee for the Substantively Consolidated SIPA Liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC and the Estate of Bernard L. Madoff, Appellant, Securities Investor Protection Corporation, Intervenor, v. Eric T. Schneiderman, Bart M. Schwartz, Ralph C. Dawson, J. Ezra Merkin, and Gabriel Capital Corporation, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 8, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David J. Sheehan , Baker & Hostetler LLP, New York, NY ( Deborah H. Renner , Tracy L. Cole , Keith R. Murphy , Baker & Hostetler LLP, New York, NY; David B. Rivkin, Jr. , Lee A. Casey , Mark W. DeLaquil , Andrew M. Grossman , Baker & Hostetler LLP, Washington, DC, of counsel), for Appellant Irving H. Picard.

Stuart H. Singer , Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, Ft. Lauderdale, FL ( David A. Barrett , Howard L. Vickery, II , Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, New York, NY; Robert C. Finkel , Wolf Popper LLP, New York, NY; Victor E. Stewart , Lovell Stewart Halebian Jacobson LLP, New York, NY, of counsel), for Lead Plaintiffs-Appellees Representative Anwar Plaintiffs.

Marc G. Cunha , Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, New York, NY ( Peter E. Kazanoff , Jeffrey L. Roether , Jeffrey E. Baldwin , Nicholas S. Davis , of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees Fairfield Greenwich Limited, et al.

Brian Sutherland , for Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General of the State of New York, New York, NY ( James C. McCarroll , Jordan W. Siev , Michael J. Venditto , Reed Smith LLP, New York, NY; Judith A. Archer , David L. Barrack , Jami Mills Vibbert , Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, New York, NY, of counsel), for Appellees Eric T. Schneiderman, Bart M. Schwartz, Ralph C. Dawson.

Andrew J. Levander , Dechert LLP, New York, NY ( Neil A. Steiner , of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees J. Ezra Merkin and Gabriel Capital Corporation.

Nathanael S. Kelly , Washington, DC ( Josephine Wang , Kevin H. Bell , of counsel), for Intervenor Securities Investor Protection Corporation.

Before SACK, CHIN, and DRONEY, Circuit Judges.

SACK, Circuit Judge:

Irving H. Picard (the "Trustee"), trustee for the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC ("BLMIS") and of the bankruptcy estate of Bernard L. Madoff, initiated adversary proceedings seeking to block the settlement of three lawsuits, none of which involved BLMIS or the Madoff estate as a party. The suits in question were brought by and on behalf of investors in so-called "feeder funds" — funds that channeled investments...

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