Recognition of trust and parallel debt in international financings
In 2006 Belvedère issued a loan of $375 million in the form of floating rate notes offered to the public and governed by the laws of New York state. The issuance contract appointed the Bank of New York Mellon as trustee, principal paying agent, account holder and transfer agent. In such capacity, the trustee held the debt loan for the benefit of bondholders in whose name it had authority to make certain decisions. In addition, Natixis and Raiffeisen Bank Polska, the French and Polish subsidiaries of the issuing company which granted security interests to secure the repayment of these bonds, were appointed principal and secondary agents under a security interest-sharing agreement (also subject to New York state law). For these purposes the banks were recognised as creditors of the bond issue, along with the debt holders of notes. As a safeguard procedure had been opened against the issuing company and its subsidiaries, the two security agents and the trustee each registered a claim for the full amount of the loan in each insolvency proceeding. Belvedère then challenged these claim registrations in order to reduce its liabilities from the bond debt amount. Claim registration in insolvency proceedings is treated as a statement of claim. As such, it is subject to the French civil procedure rules, including the need for any person registering the claim of a third party to provide proof of special authorisation (under Article 416 of the Civil Procedure Code) and to identify the real party to the court proceedings. The issue for the court was whether the capacity to register a claim was to be decided under French law as the law applicable to the open insolvency proceedings, in which case the special authorisation of each bondholder was needed, or in accordance with New York state law as the law governing the bonds issue, in which case the trustee had sole capacity .Contractual Capacity Of A Trust - News
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However, in the case at hand, the parties used a parallel debt rather than a trust in favour of the security agent. As noted by the Supreme Court, the parallel debt arose when the debtor entered into "a non-ancillary contractual commitment,
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Testator's Capacity To Execute Trust Amendment Should Be ...
, (--- Cal.Rptr.3d ----, Cal.App. 2 Dist., June 14, 2011), a court of appeal considered whether a testator’s capacity to execute trust amendments should be evaluated by the standard for testamentary capacity or the standard for contractual capacity. The court of appeal held a testator’s capacity to execute trust amendments should be evaluated pursuant to the standard for testamentary capacity.
Facts Wayne Andersen (“Wayne”) and his wife established a trust in 1992 that named their children, Stephen Andersen (“Stephen”) and Kathleen Brandt (“Kathleen”), as sole beneficiaries of the trust after their parents’ death. Wayne’s wife died in 1993. In 2003, Wayne amended the trust to leave 60 percent of his estate to his long-term romantic partner, Pauline Hunt (“Pauline”), and the remainder of the estate to Stephen, Kathleen, and Stephen’s son. Wayne had suffered from a stroke before he amended the trust. Wayne amended his trust again in 2003 and 2004, but the amendments still provided that 60 percent of his estate would be distributed to Pauline upon his death.
After Wayne died in 2006, Stephen and Kathleen brought an action to invalidate the 2003 and 2004 amendments to the trust. The probate court found Wayne lacked the capacity to execute the trust amendments.
Decision The court of appeal held the “probate court erred when it evaluated Wayne’s capacity to execute the trust amendments by the general standard of capacity set out in Probate Code sections 810 to 812, instead of the standard of testamentary capacity set out in Probate Code section 6100.5.” Probate Code section 6100.5 provides that a person is not competent to make a will if the person lacks “sufficient mental capacity to be able to (A) understand the nature of the testamentary act, (B) understand and recollect the nature and situation of the individual’s property, or (C) remember and understand the individual’s relations to living descendants, spouse, and parents, and those whose interests are affected by the will. Section 6100.5 also provides that a person is not competent to make a will if he or she “suffers from a mental disorder with symptoms including delusions or hallucinations, which delusions or hallucinations result in the individual’s devising property in a way which, except for the existence of the delusions or hallucinations, the individual would not have done.