<p>破产电动车初创公司 Canoo 的资产出售给其首席执行官已获得负责该案件的法官批准。在评估了一些有限的反对意见后，布伦丹·香农法官在周三的听证会上表示，他认为这一过程是公平的，除了 Canoo 首席执行官安东尼·阿奎拉，没有其他人提出竞标。</p>
<p>香农的决定一旦正式化，将为阿奎拉以约 400 万美元现金购买电动车初创公司大部分资产铺平道路。阿奎拉计划向 NASA 和国防部等客户提供服务，这些客户在公司破产前购买了一些 Canoo 的车辆，律师表示。</p>
<p>Canoo 是最近一波电动车初创公司申请破产的最新失败者，名单中还包括 Fisker、Lordstown Motors 和 Nikola。</p>
<p>Canoo 并不是唯一一家有首席执行官试图收购资产的公司。Lordstown Motors 的创始人兼前首席执行官在破产中购买了他公司大部分资产，而现在新获得特赦的 Nikola 创始人兼前首席执行官特雷弗·米尔顿也在尝试以同样方式处理他的初创公司。</p>
<p>阿奎拉并不是唯一对 Canoo 资产感兴趣的人。</p>
<p>Canoo 的律师马克·费尔格在听证会上表示，除了阿奎拉外，还有多达八方其他参与者签署了保密协议并评估了待售资产。他表示，只有少数几方接近提出竞标，其中包括一个被破产受托人表示可能会引起美国外国投资委员会关注的团体，因为其（未具体说明的）“外国所有权”。</p>
<p>几乎竞标 Canoo 资产的最显著方是 Harbinger，一家电动卡车初创公司，最近对出售提出了异议，并声称 Canoo 在隐瞒潜在买家的资产。</p>
<p>Harbinger 的创始团队和许多早期员工于 2021 年从 Canoo 分离出来创建了新初创公司。Canoo 在 2022 年底提起的诉讼中指控这些创始人在离开时挪用了商业机密，该诉讼仍在进行中。</p>
<p>该诉讼的结果成为 Canoo 资产出售的核心。受托人认为，Canoo 在案件中的胜利可能带来一大笔资金，并可能对 Harbinger 使用任何这些商业机密发出禁令。</p>
<p>Harbinger 的律师约翰·莫里斯在听证会上强调，尽管在法庭上已经进行了两年，但除了阿奎拉之外，没有人知道所谓的商业机密究竟是什么。Canoo 从未具体说明，即使在保密情况下，也没有说明他们认为 Harbinger 涉嫌盗取的内容。</p>
<p>Harbinger 对出售的异议部分涉及此事，声称受托人或评估公司因此无法正确评估遗产——这意味着潜在竞标者并未完全知情。</p>
<p>莫里斯还提出了出售协议中一个特定条款的问题，该条款赋予阿奎拉对与 Canoo 的诉讼任何潜在和解的最终批准权。</p>
<p>莫里斯辩称，受托人通过将可能存在利益冲突的阿奎拉赋予最终决定权，放弃了对遗产的信托责任。香农最终不同意这一观点。</p>
<p>香农提到受托人的证词，称与阿奎拉的谈判持续了数周，并涉及多项报价和还价，作为出售经过适当考虑的证据。他表示，阿奎拉与公司的关系得到了适当披露。</p>
<p>“受托人进行了一个导致重大报价的过程，” 他表示，出售 “以诚信进行”。</p>
<p>对出售的其他异议主要来自与 Canoo 有未偿余额的公司或仍在持有设备的公司。费尔格在周三告诉法庭，大多数，甚至所有这些问题都在解决过程中。</p>

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<p>一名法官已批准将破产电动车初创公司 Canoo 的资产以约 400 万美元的价格出售给其首席执行官安东尼·阿奎拉（Anthony Aquila）。法官认为这一过程是公平的，并指出没有其他竞标。阿奎拉计划为包括 NASA 和国防部在内的客户提供服务。尽管其他方，包括 Harbinger，对该资产表示了兴趣，但也提出了关于商业机密和潜在外国所有权的担忧。法官确认，尽管债权人和其他利益相关方提出异议，销售过程仍是在诚信的基础上进行的</p>

<p>The sale of bankrupt EV startup Canoo’s assets to its CEO has been okayed by the judge overseeing the case. After evaluating a number of limited objections to the sale, Judge Brendan Shannon said in a hearing Wednesday he believes the process was fair, and that no one else but Canoo CEO Anthony Aquila made a bid.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>破产电动车初创公司 Canoo 的资产出售给其首席执行官已获得负责该案件的法官批准。在评估了一些有限的反对意见后，布伦丹·香农法官在周三的听证会上表示，他认为这一过程是公平的，除了 Canoo 首席执行官安东尼·阿奎拉，没有其他人提出竞标。</p>
</div><p>Shannon’s decision, once formalized, paves the way for Aquila to buy most of the assets of the EV startup for around $4 million in cash. Aquila plans to offer services to customers such as NASA and the Department of Defense, which purchased a few Canoo vehicles before the company went under, according to lawyers representing the CEO.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>香农的决定一旦正式化，将为阿奎拉以约 400 万美元现金购买电动车初创公司大部分资产铺平道路。阿奎拉计划向 NASA 和国防部等客户提供服务，这些客户在公司破产前购买了一些 Canoo 的车辆，律师表示。</p>
</div><p>Canoo is the latest failure in a wave of EV startups to file for bankruptcy, a list that includes Fisker, Lordstown Motors, and Nikola.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>Canoo 是最近一波电动车初创公司申请破产的最新失败者，名单中还包括 Fisker、Lordstown Motors 和 Nikola。</p>
</div><p>Canoo is also not the only one of these companies to have had a CEO try to buy up the assets. Lordstown Motors’ founder former CEO bought most of the assets of his company in bankruptcy, and now newly-pardoned Nikola founder and former CEO Trevor Milton is trying to do the same with his startup.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>Canoo 并不是唯一一家有首席执行官试图收购资产的公司。Lordstown Motors 的创始人兼前首席执行官在破产中购买了他公司大部分资产，而现在新获得特赦的 Nikola 创始人兼前首席执行官特雷弗·米尔顿也在尝试以同样方式处理他的初创公司。</p>
</div><p>Aquila was not the only one interested in Canoo’s assets.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>阿奎拉并不是唯一对 Canoo 资产感兴趣的人。</p>
</div><p>Mark Felger, a lawyer for Canoo, said during the hearing that as many as eight parties other than Aquila signed NDAs and evaluated what was for sale. Only a handful of those came close to making a bid, he said, including one group that the bankruptcy trustee said could raise concerns with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States because of its (unspecified) “foreign ownership.”</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>Canoo 的律师马克·费尔格在听证会上表示，除了阿奎拉外，还有多达八方其他参与者签署了保密协议并评估了待售资产。他表示，只有少数几方接近提出竞标，其中包括一个被破产受托人表示可能会引起美国外国投资委员会关注的团体，因为其（未具体说明的）“外国所有权”。</p>
</div><p>Most notable of the parties that nearly bid on the assets was Harbinger, an electric truck startup that recently objected to the sale and claimed Canoo was hiding assets from potential buyers.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>几乎竞标 Canoo 资产的最显著方是 Harbinger，一家电动卡车初创公司，最近对出售提出了异议，并声称 Canoo 在隐瞒潜在买家的资产。</p>
</div><p>Harbinger’s founding team and many of its earliest employees split off from Canoo to create the new startup in 2021. Canoo accused those founders of misappropriating trade secrets on the way out in a lawsuit filed in late 2022, which is still ongoing.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>Harbinger 的创始团队和许多早期员工于 2021 年从 Canoo 分离出来创建了新初创公司。Canoo 在 2022 年底提起的诉讼中指控这些创始人在离开时挪用了商业机密，该诉讼仍在进行中。</p>
</div><p>The outcome of that lawsuit became a centerpiece of the sale of Canoo’s assets. The trustee believes that a Canoo victory in the case could bring in a big hunk of money and also a potential injunction against Harbinger using any of those trade secrets.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>该诉讼的结果成为 Canoo 资产出售的核心。受托人认为，Canoo 在案件中的胜利可能带来一大笔资金，并可能对 Harbinger 使用任何这些商业机密发出禁令。</p>
</div><p>John Morris, a lawyer for Harbinger, stressed in the hearing that, despite two years in court, no one outside Aquila even knows what trade secrets were supposedly misappropriated. Canoo never specified, even under seal, what it believes Harbinger allegedly stole.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>Harbinger 的律师约翰·莫里斯在听证会上强调，尽管在法庭上已经进行了两年，但除了阿奎拉之外，没有人知道所谓的商业机密究竟是什么。Canoo 从未具体说明，即使在保密情况下，也没有说明他们认为 Harbinger 涉嫌盗取的内容。</p>
</div><p>Harbinger’s objection to the sale partially dealt with this, claiming that the trustee or the appraisal firm could therefore not properly value the estate — meaning potential bidders weren’t fully informed.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>Harbinger 对出售的异议部分涉及此事，声称受托人或评估公司因此无法正确评估遗产——这意味着潜在竞标者并未完全知情。</p>
</div><p>Morris also raised the issue of a specific clause in the sale agreement that gives Aquila the ultimate approval over any potential settlement in the lawsuit with Canoo.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>莫里斯还提出了出售协议中一个特定条款的问题，该条款赋予阿奎拉对与 Canoo 的诉讼任何潜在和解的最终批准权。</p>
</div><p>Morris argued the trustee had abandoned his fiduciary duty to the estate by giving a possibly conflicted Aquila final say over any settlement. Shannon ultimately disagreed.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>莫里斯辩称，受托人通过将可能存在利益冲突的阿奎拉赋予最终决定权，放弃了对遗产的信托责任。香农最终不同意这一观点。</p>
</div><p>Shannon referenced the trustee’s testimony that negotiations with Aquila took weeks and involved a number of offers and counteroffers as evidence the sale was properly considered. He said Aquila’s relationship to the company was properly disclosed.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>香农提到受托人的证词，称与阿奎拉的谈判持续了数周，并涉及多项报价和还价，作为出售经过适当考虑的证据。他表示，阿奎拉与公司的关系得到了适当披露。</p>
</div><p>“The trustee has run a process that has resulted in a significant offer,” and the sale has been “proceeding in good faith,” he said.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>“受托人进行了一个导致重大报价的过程，” 他表示，出售 “以诚信进行”。</p>
</div><p>Other objections to the sale mostly came from companies that either have outstanding balances with Canoo or are still holding onto equipment. Felger told the court Wednesday that most, if not all, of those are in the process of being resolved.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>对出售的其他异议主要来自与 Canoo 有未偿余额的公司或仍在持有设备的公司。费尔格在周三告诉法庭，大多数，甚至所有这些问题都在解决过程中。</p>
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