PrimaLend’s Chapter 11 case is being closely watched as a key indicator of market confidence in the troubled subprime auto lending sector. The Texas-based lender gained court approval for bidding procedures last week as it attempts to sell its assets and maximize value for its loan portfolios that serve low-income auto customers.
The bankruptcies of Tricolor and PrimaLend marked the first major insolvencies that the U.S. auto lending industry had seen in years. According to industry observers, they serve as a wake-up call for lenders that may have grown too comfortable with minimal oversight and few consequences.
Deportation policies and due diligence blind spots are exposing hidden risks in the U.S. consumer ABS market. The market is facing a new kind of crisis — not of defaulting borrowers, but of disappearing ones. As mass deportations and tightening immigration enforcement under the Trump administration continue, lenders are grappling with the fallout: when borrowers are suddenly deported or lose...
With the recent bankruptcy filing by Tricolor Holdings, many industry leaders are attempting to predict how this will impact subprime auto finance for the remainder of the year and beyond. Joseph Cioffi and Nicole Zatserkovniy, attorneys in the Bankruptcy, Creditors’ Rights + Finance Practice Group at Davis+Gilbert, were extensively quoted in SubPrime Auto Finance News following their analysis...
Joseph Cioffi, Davis+Gilbert’s Chief Operating Partner and Bankruptcy, Creditors’ Rights + Finance Practice Group Chair who has worked on large crypto bankruptcies and forfeiture proceedings, was quoted in Cryptopolitan commenting on the effect of the verbal agreement made by the founders of Dough Financial to compensate users following a hack of the platform. As noted, post-hack promises are not...
July 2024, Dough Finance — a crypto startup trading platform that made it easy to make risky bets using borrowed funds — suffered a major hack, resulting in the theft of substantial assets belonging to its users. Following the collapse of Dough Finance, the founders launched a new venture — World Liberty Financial — in partnership with Donald Trump and his three sons. One investor, Jonathan...
In this Law360 article, Joseph Cioffi provides his thoughts on the fairness of distributing forfeited funds to preferred shareholders in the FTX bankruptcy, while creditors are arguably not being paid in full based on today’s crypto values.
