<p>Canoo 破产案的法官已阻止一位神秘金融家干扰这家电动车初创公司的资产出售。</p>
<p>在周二的听证会上，法官 Brendan Linehan Shannon 裁定，这位名为 Charles Garson 的英国金融家没有资格请求撤销对 Canoo 自己首席执行官的出售。尽管 Garson 向法庭表示他愿意为 Canoo 的资产支付高达 2000 万美元，但他错过了正式提交该报价的截止日期。Garson 也从未明确说明他从哪里筹集这笔资金，这导致案件中的破产受托人对该报价可能被美国外国投资委员会阻止表示担忧。</p>
<p>对资产出售的最后一个挑战来自 Harbinger Motors，这是一家由几位前 Canoo 员工创建的商业电动卡车初创公司。Harbinger 在四月出售最终确定之前对该交易提出了异议。法官驳回了 Harbinger 的异议，但该公司随后对此决定提出了上诉。</p>
<p>Garson 的律师 Jason Angelo 将其客户试图干扰出售的行为描述为 “戴维与歌利亚的较量”。Angelo 在听证会上试图说明，Garson 与破产受托人的对话——这些对话以密封方式提交给法庭——让他相信他有直到四月底的时间来正式提交报价。他还重申了 Garson 在原始申请中提出的关于出售不公平的主张，因为资产最终归 Canoo 的首席执行官 Anthony Aquila 所有。</p>
<p>“我认为在这里允许重新进行是有意义的，” Angelo 说，并提到他客户的 “真诚和认真”。“我知道这要求很多，我知道。”</p>
<p>代表破产受托人的律师 Mark Felger 不同意，表示争议不大，谈判是公平的。</p>
<p>“我们认为就事实而言，这非常明确。没有谁说了什么，” 他对法官说。“尊敬的法官，所有内容都在电子邮件中。我已经读过很多次。我没有看到任何误解。我没有看到任何欺骗。我们进行的方式很清楚。他知道在九号有出售听证会，但他选择不提交任何文件。”</p>
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<p>关于出售过程的公平性，Felger 说他和受托人 “对这次内部出售 [给首席执行官] 感到担忧。”</p>
<p>“但他们是主动出击的人，我们进行了艰苦的谈判。我们在那份协议上来回讨论了十几次，” 他说。Felger 还重申了受托人在早期文件和证词中提出的主张，即维护 Canoo 资产——尤其是其电池组——的成本太高。他表示，出售过程拖得太久可能会损害遗产的价值。</p>
<p>Shannon 法官在听取了 Angelo、Felger 和 Aquila 律师的论点后，迅速裁定 Garson 败诉。他表示，Garson 没有资格正确地提出撤销出售的动议，因为他并不欠 Canoo 任何钱，也没有在截止日期之前提交正式报价。</p>
<p>“我对 Garson 先生对我所感受到的挫败感表示同情，并且我相信他确实有兴趣提供更优的报价并购买这些资产，” Shannon 说。“但这是一个由第七章受托人管理的复杂过程，我认为 Garson 先生并没有完全掌握这个过程的具体情况，以及完全参与该过程所需的条件。”</p>
<p>Shannon 还指出，从一开始就明确告知受托人 Aquila 的身份，单凭他作为首席执行官的角色并不妨碍他购买自己公司的资产。</p>

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<p>一名法官在破产听证会上拒绝了英国金融家查尔斯·加尔森（Charles Garson）阻止 Canoo 资产出售给其首席执行官安东尼·阿奎拉（Anthony Aquila）的请求。加尔森声称他愿意出价 2000 万美元，但错过了提交正式报价的截止日期，并未澄清其资金来源。法官裁定加尔森缺乏资格，强调出售过程是公平和透明的。唯一剩下的挑战来自哈宾杰汽车（Harbinger Motors），该公司对之前针对其反对出售的裁决提出了上诉</p>

<p>The judge in Canoo’s bankruptcy case has blocked an attempt by a mysterious financier to disrupt the sale of the EV startup’s assets.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>Canoo 破产案的法官已阻止一位神秘金融家干扰这家电动车初创公司的资产出售。</p>
</div><p>In a hearing Tuesday, Judge Brendan Linehan Shannon ruled the financier, a UK-based man named Charles Garson, lacked standing to request the sale to Canoo’s own CEO be vacated. While Garson had told the court he was willing to pay as much as $20 million for Canoo’s assets, he missed the deadline to formally submit that bid. Garson also never made it clear where he was sourcing that money from, causing the bankruptcy trustee in the case to raise concerns the bid could get blocked by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>在周二的听证会上，法官 Brendan Linehan Shannon 裁定，这位名为 Charles Garson 的英国金融家没有资格请求撤销对 Canoo 自己首席执行官的出售。尽管 Garson 向法庭表示他愿意为 Canoo 的资产支付高达 2000 万美元，但他错过了正式提交该报价的截止日期。Garson 也从未明确说明他从哪里筹集这笔资金，这导致案件中的破产受托人对该报价可能被美国外国投资委员会阻止表示担忧。</p>
</div><p>The last remaining challenge to the asset sale comes from Harbinger Motors, a commercial electric trucking startup created by a handful of former Canoo employees. Harbinger objected to the sale before it was finalized in April. The judge denied Harbinger’s objection, but the company has since appealed that decision.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>对资产出售的最后一个挑战来自 Harbinger Motors，这是一家由几位前 Canoo 员工创建的商业电动卡车初创公司。Harbinger 在四月出售最终确定之前对该交易提出了异议。法官驳回了 Harbinger 的异议，但该公司随后对此决定提出了上诉。</p>
</div><p>Jason Angelo, a lawyer for Garson, framed his client’s attempt to disrupt the sale as a “David versus Goliath type matter.” Angelo tried to make the case during the hearing that Garson’s conversations with the bankruptcy trustee — which were submitted to the court under seal — led him to believe he had until the end of April to formalize a bid. He also repeated the claims made in Garson’s original filing about the sale allegedly being unfair because the assets ultimately went to Canoo’s CEO Anthony Aquila.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>Garson 的律师 Jason Angelo 将其客户试图干扰出售的行为描述为 “戴维与歌利亚的较量”。Angelo 在听证会上试图说明，Garson 与破产受托人的对话——这些对话以密封方式提交给法庭——让他相信他有直到四月底的时间来正式提交报价。他还重申了 Garson 在原始申请中提出的关于出售不公平的主张，因为资产最终归 Canoo 的首席执行官 Anthony Aquila 所有。</p>
</div><p>“I think it would make sense here to allow a redo, so to speak,” Angelo said, citing “the sincerity and earnestness” of his client. “I know that is asking a lot, I do.”</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>“我认为在这里允许重新进行是有意义的，” Angelo 说，并提到他客户的 “真诚和认真”。“我知道这要求很多，我知道。”</p>
</div><p>Mark Felger, the lawyer representing the bankruptcy trustee, disagreed by saying there was little in dispute and the negotiations were fair.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>代表破产受托人的律师 Mark Felger 不同意，表示争议不大，谈判是公平的。</p>
</div><p>“We think it’s pretty clear-cut in terms of the facts. There’s no he said, she said,” he told the judge. “Your Honor, it’s all in the emails. I’ve read them over many, many times. I don’t see any miscommunication. I don’t see any deception. It was clear how we were proceeding. He knew there was a sale hearing on the ninth, and he chose not to file anything.”</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>“我们认为就事实而言，这非常明确。没有谁说了什么，” 他对法官说。“尊敬的法官，所有内容都在电子邮件中。我已经读过很多次。我没有看到任何误解。我没有看到任何欺骗。我们进行的方式很清楚。他知道在九号有出售听证会，但他选择不提交任何文件。”</p>
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</div><p>Regarding the fairness of the sale process, Felger said he and the trustee “were concerned about this insider sale [to the CEO].”</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>关于出售过程的公平性，Felger 说他和受托人 “对这次内部出售 [给首席执行官] 感到担忧。”</p>
</div><p>“But they’re the ones who stepped up, right and we negotiated hard. We went back and forth a dozen times on that agreement,” he said. Felger also repeated the trustee’s claims, made in earlier filings and testimony, that the cost of maintaining Canoo’s assets — especially its battery packs — was costing too much money. Letting a sale process drag out for too long could damage the value of the estate, he said.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>“但他们是主动出击的人，我们进行了艰苦的谈判。我们在那份协议上来回讨论了十几次，” 他说。Felger 还重申了受托人在早期文件和证词中提出的主张，即维护 Canoo 资产——尤其是其电池组——的成本太高。他表示，出售过程拖得太久可能会损害遗产的价值。</p>
</div><p>Judge Shannon, after hearing the arguments from Angelo, Felger, and a lawyer for Aquila, ruled swiftly against Garson. He said the financier lacked standing to properly argue his motion to vacate the sale, since he is not owed any money by Canoo and did not submit a formal bid before the deadline.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>Shannon 法官在听取了 Angelo、Felger 和 Aquila 律师的论点后，迅速裁定 Garson 败诉。他表示，Garson 没有资格正确地提出撤销出售的动议，因为他并不欠 Canoo 任何钱，也没有在截止日期之前提交正式报价。</p>
</div><p>“I am sympathetic to Mr. Garson’s frustration at what I sense and am satisfied is a genuine interest to provide a superior bid and purchase these assets,” Shannon said. “But it was a complex process run by the chapter seven trustee that I don’t think Mr. Garson had a full handle on exactly what the process was, and what was necessary in order to fully engage in that process.”</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>“我对 Garson 先生对我所感受到的挫败感表示同情，并且我相信他确实有兴趣提供更优的报价并购买这些资产，” Shannon 说。“但这是一个由第七章受托人管理的复杂过程，我认为 Garson 先生并没有完全掌握这个过程的具体情况，以及完全参与该过程所需的条件。”</p>
</div><p>Shannon also pointed out it was made clear to the trustee from the beginning who Aquila was, and that his role as CEO alone did not preclude him from buying his company’s assets.</p>
<div class="lb-trans"><p>Shannon 还指出，从一开始就明确告知受托人 Aquila 的身份，单凭他作为首席执行官的角色并不妨碍他购买自己公司的资产。</p>
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神秘投资者试图阻止 Canoo 资产出售的努力被法官驳回