Lehman Brothers’ brokerage ends liquidation after 14 years amid monetary disaster

The liquidation of Lehman Brothers’ brokerage unit has ended, 14 years and 13 days after its father or mother’s chapter helped set off a market freefall and international monetary disaster.

US Chapter Choose Shelley Chapman in Manhattan closed the brokerage’s property on Wednesday and awarded last funds to the trustee who oversaw its liquidation and his legislation agency. Greater than $115 billion was paid out.

Lehman’s 111,000 clients obtained all $106 billion they had been owed, and secured collectors additionally obtained full payouts.

Unsecured collectors recovered $9.4 billion, or about 41 cents on the greenback. They had been initially anticipated to get better about 20 cents on the greenback.

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc, the brokerage’s father or mother, had been Wall Avenue’s fourth-largest funding financial institution earlier than submitting what stays by far the most important U.S. chapter on Sept. 15, 2008.

Its collapse led to a lot debate over whether or not and in what circumstances firms must be allowed to fail.

Barclays Plc purchased most of Lehman’s U.S. brokerage property early within the monetary disaster. The father or mother’s Chapter 11 chapter plan was confirmed in 2011.

Lehman’s demise taught that “a failure of a big monetary establishment must be averted, however historical past tells us that it’s inevitable,” the brokerage’s trustee James Giddens stated in a press release.

Giddens’ legislation agency Hughes Hubbard & Reed was awarded $424 million as last compensation for 14 years of labor on the case.