“(Reuters) – Citigroup Inc has agreed to pay $360 million to the brokerage estate of Lehman Brothersto resolve a dispute over $1 billion in collateral that the investment bank was forced to post in the days leading up to its bankruptcy in 2008.
According to a settlement reached on Friday with the trustee liquidating Lehman Brothers’s U.S. brokerage unit, Citigroup will also relinquish its claim to $75 million that was contingently paid to the estate at the beginning of the liquidation, court documents showed.
The trustee, James Giddens, filed the claim against Citigroup and its subsidiaries early last year, arguing that the $1 billion was obtained under coercion and that the amount should be part of a general asset pool to be divided among creditors in accordance with bankruptcy law.
Citigroup had countered the trustee’s claims saying that it is entitled to keep the $1 billion under the Bankruptcy Code’s “safe harbor” provisions, which shield certain financial transactions from being included in the creditors’ asset pool.”
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