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Feb 18, 2021 04:45AM
Crystallex International Corporation is a Canadian-based gold company with a successful record of developing and operating gold mines in Venezuela and elsewhere in South America
Mostly just bickering about the appointment of the "special master" that will be appointed to sell the shares.
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As directed by the Court, the parties and ConocoPhillips exchanged their respective lists of potential candidates on February 4, 2021. Following multiple meet and confer sessions as well as separate conversations with several of the proposed special masters, the parties and ConocoPhillips were unable to reach agreement on a single candid ate. They have, however, agreed to limit the number of candidates put forward to this Court to one nominee from Crystallex, Judge Sue L. Robinson (ret.), and two nomin ees jointly from the Republic of Venezuela, PDVSA, PDVH, CITGO, and ConocoPhillips, Robert Pincus and David Schulte.
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Supplemental Position of the Republic, PDVSA, PDVH, and CITGO
On February 12, 2021, the Republic, PDVSA, PDVH, and CITGO filed Notices of Appeal of the Court’s January 14 Order, D.I. 239, 240, 241, and jointly filed a motion to stay the sale proceedings in the District Court pending the appeal, D.I. 242 , 243. Thus, the special master proposals in this letter are made subject to the appeal and the motion to stay. Assuming the sale process goes forward, as Crystallex has been repeatedly advised, the Republic, PDVSA, PDVH, and CITGO will do everything they can to support the special master and a reasonable sale process. Indeed, it is in their best interest to do so. Although rates for Messrs. Pincus and Schulte have been proposed, payment for financial and legal advisors to the special master must still be determined. During the meet and confer process, PDVH a nd CITGO raised with Crystallex that its $1 million advancement offer would likely be insufficient, that PDVH and CITGO were discussing how and to what extent they would contribute, and that the parties should meet and confer to further address payment of the special master. PDVH and CITGO are willing to consider advancing at least a portion of these fees in order to ensure the most professional sales process and to maximize the value of the sale of PDVH shares, and request that the parties continue to meet and confer, on a schedule ordered by the Court, over payment of the special master and the special master’s advisors, including allocation of the advancements amongst the interested parties.