FTX Trading file schedules, financial affairs statements with court

Chicago, March 15 – FTX Trading Ltd. filed schedules of assets and liabilities and statements of financial affairs for all debtor entities involved in their Chapter 11 proceedings on Wednesday, according to a press release.

The schedules and statements describe $3.2 billion in payments and loans to founders, chiefly from Alameda Research, including approximately: $2.2 billion to Sam Bankman-Fried; $587 million to Nishad Singh; $246 million to Zixiao “Gary” Wang; $87 million to Ryan Salame; $25 million to John Samuel Trabucco and $6 million to Caroline Ellison.

The above amounts exclude over $240 million spent to purchase luxury property in the Bahamas, political and charitable donations made directly by the FTX debtors, and substantial transfers to non-debtor subsidiaries in the Bahamas and other jurisdictions.

Although some of the property purchased with the proceeds of these transfers is already in the control of the FTX debtors or governmental authorities with whom the FTX debtors are cooperating, the amount and timing of eventual monetary recoveries cannot be predicted at this time. The FTX debtors are investigating causes of action against the recipients of these transfers and their subsequent transferees.

Ongoing efforts by the FTX debtors are expected to result in the further identification of assets, liabilities and transfers, including a description of intercompany claims among the FTX debtors and their subsidiaries.

The press release noted that no stakeholder should use the schedules and statements for purposes of estimating recoveries on claims.

The FTX debtors are represented by Sullivan & Cromwell LLP as legal counsel and are assisted by Alvarez & Marsal North America, LLC as financial adviser, Perella Weinberg Partners LP as investment banker, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP as special counsel and Landis Rath & Cobb LLP as Delaware counsel. The UCC is represented by Paul Hastings LLP as legal counsel, FTI Consulting as financial adviser, Jefferies LLC as investment banker and Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP as Delaware counsel.

FTX has headquarters in the Bahamas. The company filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Nov. 11 under case number 22-11068.

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