MATTER OF UNI-RTY CORP. v. NEW YORK GUANGDONG FIN., INC.

Index No. 157621/12. Appeal No. 14881. Case No. 2021-01833.

203 A.D.3d 498 (2022)

160 N.Y.S.3d 877

2022 NY Slip Op 01525

In the Matter of Uni-Rty Corporation et al., Respondents, v. New York Guangdong Finance, Inc., et al., Appellants.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.

Decided March 10, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cooley LLP, New York ( William J. Schwarz of counsel), for New York Guangdong Finance, Inc., Guangdong Building Inc., The Estate of Joseph Chu, Alexander Chu, Centre Plaza, L.L.C. and Eastbank, N.A., appellants.

White & Case LLP, New York ( Jacqueline L. Chung of counsel), for China Construction Bank and Agricultural Bank of China, appellants.

Kaiser Saurborn & Mair, P.C., New York ( Henry L. Saurborn, Jr. of counsel), for respondents.

Concur—Kapnick, J.P., Friedman, González, Rodriguez, Pitt, JJ.


Petitioners allege that the banks and Joseph and Alexander Chu together, the individual Chus, who were all shareholders of NYGFI, engineered a 2005 settlement of shareholder derivative actions to insulate NYGFI assets from claims asserted by petitioners in a then-pending federal action against NYGFI and the individual Chus. Petitioners ultimately prevailed in the federal action and in...

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