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THE VIDEOGRAPHER: My name is
Marc Friedman of Veritext New York.
The date today is June 14, 2011. The
time is approximately 9:13 a.m.
This deposition is being held in
the office of Susman Godfrey located
at 560 Lexington Avenue, New York, New
York. The caption of this case is
10 Fortress VRF 1, LLC and Fortress Value
11 Recovery Fund 1, LLC versus Jeepers,
12 Inc., et al. in the JAMS arbitration
13 reference number 1425006537.
14 The name of the witness is
15 Daniel Zwirn.
16 At this time the attorneys will
17 identify themselves after which time
18 our court reporter, Wayne Hock of
19 Veritext, will swear in the witness
20 and we can proceed.
21 MR. SIFFERT: John Siffert,
22 Lankler Siffert and Wohl for the
23 witness.
24 MR. REYNOLDS: Daniel Reynolds
25 also from Lankler Siffert and Wohl.
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2 MR. LEE: Andrew Lee also from
3 Lankier Siffert and Wohl.
4 MR. SCHWARTZ: William Schwartz
5 from Cooley, LLP for the Zwirn
6 entities.
7 MR. O'BRIEN: Bill O'Brien also
8 of Cooley.
9 MR. ARFFA: I'm Allan Arffa from
10 Paul, Weis, Rifkind, Wharton and
11 Garrison, LLP. We represent the
12 claimants in this proceeding.
13 MS. SHOLL: Hannah Sholl also
14 from Paul Weiss.
15 MEGAN JOHNSON: Megan Johnson
16 from Fortress.
17 MR. SUSMAN: Steve Susman and
18 Seth Ard are here representing Jeepers
19 and FTC. And Jeffrey Epstein is here.
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22 EXAMINATION BY
23 MR. SUSMAN:
24 Q. Would you please state your full
25 name for the record.
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2 A. Daniel Bernard Zwirn.
3 Q. Mr. Zwirn, how old a man are
4 you?
5 A. Thirty-nine.
6 Q. Where do you live?
7 A. New York City.
8 Q. Where in New York City?
9 A. 3 East 84th Street, apartment
10 four.
11 Q. How long have you lived there?
12 A. About a year.
13 Q. And where did you live before
14 then?
15 A. 800 Fifth Avenue, apartment 20F.
16 Q. How long were you there?
17 A. Two years.
18 Q. Do you have any other homes
19 currently than the one on East 94th Street
20 (sic)?
21 A. No, I don't.
22 Q. You have testified I know a
23 number of times before the Securities and
24 Exchange Commission related to the matters
25 we're going to talk about today.
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2 Have you given your testimony
3 other than that before under oath either
4 in court or at deposition in any other
5 kind of matter?
6 A. Yes.
7 Q. What kind and when?
8 A. Do you want me to list them
9 or
10 Q. Yes, sir.
11 A. There was a transaction in which
12 my former firm was involved where there
13 was a leasing transaction. There was a
14 case of some two former employees of my
15 former firm. There was a lending
16 transaction in some entertainment assets
17 in which my former firm was involved.
18 Q. Excuse me, let me just stop you
19 one second.
20 A. Okay.
21 Q. The former firm, what firm are
22 you referring to?
23 A. DB Zwirn and Company. And I was
24 in the --
25 Q. DB Zwirn and Company?
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2 A. Just to be clear, in the first
3 and third situations, I was helping our
4 funds --
5 Q. I'm sorry, could you speak up a
6 little?
7 A. Sure.
8 In the first and third
9 situations I referenced, I was called to
10 help our funds. In the second one, it was
11 with regard to the management company of
12 DB Zwirn and Company.
13 Q. Give me the first one again.
14 Where was that case pending?
15 A. I don't know.
16 Q. Was it a case in court or was it
17 an arbitration?
18 A. It was two different depositions
19 regarding the leasing transaction. I'm
20 not sure -- I don't know the circumstances
21 of that sort.
22 Q. Who was the opposing party?
23 A. In the first instance within
24 that situation, I believe it was a
25 trustee, but I don't recall. And then the
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2 second instance --
3 Q. The first --
4 A. In the second instance with
5 regard to the first situation
6 Q. I'm not even sure I understand
7 what the situation was.
8 What situation were you talking
9 about?
10 A. It was a leasing transaction.
11 Q. With whom? Between whom?
12 A. Some of my -- of the entities
13 that my former firm managed had invested
14 in a lease transaction with one or two
15 businesses in New Jersey.
16 Q. What were the entities that your
17 former firm managed that were involved in
18 this leasing transaction?
19 A. I don't recall which of the
20 specific funds was invested in it or
21 accounts.
22 Q. You have no idea what those
23 entities were; is that right?
24 A. It was -- we managed several
25 different entities. I just don't recall
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2 which entities were involved. It was many
3 years ago.
4 Q. What entities did you manage?
5 A. It depends on the time.
6 Q. The firm in question, your
7 former firm was DB Zwirn and Company?
8 A. That was generally -- that's a
9 reasonable way to call the management
10 company, but there were other entities
11 that were generally referred to as the
12 management company. But DB Zwirn and
13 Company is a fair way to put it.
14 Q. And DB Zwirn and Company, is
15 that a limited partnership or an LLC?
16 A. By the way, that was -- that
17 also depends on the time. That was after
18 early '04. It was DB Zwirn and Company,
19 LP and DB Zwirn Partners, LLC. Before
20 that it was Highbridge Zwirn Capital
21 Management, LLC, I believe, and Highbridge
22 Zwirn Partners, LLC. And I was also
23 during an earlier a managing director of
24 Highbridge Capital Management.
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2 you referred to, they were -- what were
3 they leasing?
4 A. I don't recall whether it was a
5 -- what type of lease it was, but they
6 were -- the entities to which I referred
7 managed funds or other entities with
8 capital that invested in leases for
9 various types of computer equipment.
10 Q. Were these -- were the funds,
11 the entities that you were managing the
12 claimants or the plaintiffs in that
13 dispute?
14 A. In the -- in the first instance,
15 those fund entities were managed entities
16 were creditors of the estate.
17 In the second one, in the second
18 instance within that situation that was
19 more recent, I believe, they were I guess
20 Plaintiffs in the situation. I don't know
21 the legal specifics.
22 Q. Okay.
23 And when was your testimony in
24 that matter, the one involving the leasing
25 transaction?
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2 A. In the first instance, it was
3 several years ago, between three, four
4 years ago, something like that. I just
5 don't recall.
6 Q. When?
7 A. And when in the second instance
8 of that first situation, it was last week.
9 Q. You testified last week?
10 A. Uh-huh.
11 Q. Was it in court or in a
12 deposition?
13 A. Deposition.
14 Q. And that was -- was it the same
15 case?
16 A. It was regarding the same
17 ultimate borrower, but I don't think it
18 was the same case. But I just don't
19 it's been -- I don't manage the entities
20 any more. I just don't know.
21 Q. And so the testimony you were in
22 last week, who took your deposition?
23 A. An attorney.
24 Q. Which attorney?
25 A. I don't recall his name.
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2 Q. Who did he represent?
3 A. A company called Cincom.
4 Q. Spell that, please.
5 A. I don't know -- I really don't
6 recall how to spell it. C I N C O M.
7 Q. What's that?
8 A. PerhapsCINCO M.
9 Q. Cinton (sic)?
10 A. Sin come, C I N, as in Nancy, C
11 as in cat, O M, as in Mary. Again, I
12 think that's the spelling, but I just
13 don't recall.
14 MR. SIFFERT: Mr. Susman is
15 having difficulty hearing, so if you
16 could keep your voice up, that would
17 help.
18 THE WITNESS: Okay.
19 Sorry.
20 Q. Okay.
21 And the first testimony you gave
22 was in a deposition, also; correct?
23 A. Yes, I believe so.
24 Q. And what was in what year?
25 A. As I said, I just don't recall.
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2 I would guess perhaps four years ago,
3 three years ago. I just don't recall.
4 Q. Okay.
5 Those are two separate occasions
6 you've testified.
7 What's -- has there been a
8 third?
9 A. Well, going back to my previous
10 answer, there was an employee case with
11 regard to the management companies.
12 Q. Who were the employees?
13 A. Susan Chen and Todd Dittmann.
14 Q. Susan?
15 A. Chen, C H E N, and Todd
16 Dittmann, DITTMAN N.
17 Q. Who had they been employees of?
18 A. The management company of my
19 former firm.
20 Q. Of DB Zwirn and Company?
21 A. Yes, or its affiliates.
22 Q. Okay.
23 And what were they suing -- they
24 were suing that former company?
25 A. I believe so.
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2 Q. For what?
3 A. I don't recall their complaint.
4 Q. Was your testimony in a
5 deposition?
6 A. Yes, I believe so.
7 Q. When was that deposition taken?
8 A. Maybe a year and a half or two
9 years ago. Maybe more. I just don't
10 recall.
11 Q. And has there been any other
12 testimony either in a deposition or in
13 court or to an enforcement agency or
14 arbitration?
15 A. There was another lending
16 transaction that I had previously
17 referenced for a company, a series of
18 companies in the entertainment area.
19 Q. All right.
20 What can you tell us about that
21 matter?
22 A. Again, it was with regard to a
23 borrower of some of the -- of money from
24 some of the entities that I had been
25 involved in managing through the
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2 management company.
3 MR. ARFFA: Could I hold on a
4 second and take a break.
5 THE VIDEOGRAPHER: Stand by.
6 The time is 9:27. We are going
7 off the record.
8 (Whereupon a break was taken)
9 THE VIDEOGRAPHER: The time is
10 9:29. We are back on the record.
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20 MR. SUSMAN: Oh, does that solve
21 the problem? Can I then ask him about
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23 MR. ARFFA: No, because I think
24 the way the order works he's not
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2 at all.
3 MR. SUSMAN: He can't even
4 testify that he --
5 MR. ARFFA: Well, you already
6 have that, that fact.
7 MR. SUSMAN: Generally the matter
8 is? If you're making the
9 representation, Mr. Arffa, that he is
10 prevented by some confidentiality in
11 the matter by describing that he was
12 testifying in a lawsuit between A and
13 B and what that lawsuit was about, I
14 will not ask him any other questions.
15 But I will ask to see the
16 confidentiality order and then, if you
17 are wrong, we may have to talk to him
18 again.
19 MR. ARFFA: My point is I don't
20 have the order with me so I'm not sure
21 of the exact terms. I didn't have a
22 problem so far with his just saying he
23 testified and he gave you a very
24 generally description of what the
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2 MR. SUSMAN: Why don't we leave
3 at this. I'm coming back to the
4 matter after lunch, so why don't you
5 get the order for us and then that
6 will guide me on how far I can
7 inquire.
8 MR. ARFFA: I will attempt to do
9 so.
10 MR. SUSMAN: Okay. So I'll come
11 back to that.
12 Q. Was there any other matters that
13 you have testified in?
14 A. Not that I recall. Oh, oh,
15 wait, wait, auto I'm sorry. With regard
16 to 9 former CFO of our management company.
17 Q. With regard to --
18 A. There was a case regarding the
19 former CFO of our management company.
20 Q. That's Mr. Gruss?
21 A. Yes.
22 Q. You testified in that matter?
23 A. Yes.
24 Q. In a deposition?
25 A. Yes, I believe so.
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2 Q. When did -- was that testimony?
3 A. Within the last year.
4 Q. Is that lawsuit still pending or
5 has it been resolved?
6 A. Still pending, I believe.
7 Q. Any others?
8 A. Not that I can recall.
9 Q. Mr. Zwirn, where are you
10 currently employed?
11 A. I'm not.
12 Q. Are you working these days?
13 A. I spend time, you know, trying
14 to look at new opportunities sometimes or
15 talk to people about different small
16 investments or situations, but nothing
17 that -- I'm not employed or no full-time
18 commitments of any sort.
19 Q. Do you have an office outside of
20 your home?
21 A. I do.
22 Q. Where is your office located?
23 A. It's at 595 Madison,
24 thirty-third floor.
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2 A. 595 33, LLC.
3 Q. 595 --
4 A. Space 33, LLC. It's the lessee
5 of the space.
6 Q. Space 33 LL --
7 A. LLC, yes.
8 Q. What's the name on the door?
9 A. There is no actual name on the
10 door. I just assumed you meant --
11 Q. Are you the only one who offices
12 there?
13 A. No, I'm not.
14 Q. Who else offices there?
15 A. Another -- a guy called Todd
16 Meister.
17 Q. Who is Todd Meister?
18 A. He's just a guy I've known since
19 we worked together almost twenty years at
20 Lazard and there are a couple of
21 administrative -type people.
22 Q. Do you do any business with Mr.
23 Meister?
24 A. I have not, no.
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2 him to be in?
3 A. I would say he's an investor and
4 kind of intermediary of transactions or
5 something like that. I don't really know.
6 I don't really engage with him that much
7 on what he does. I just know him
8 personally.
9 Q. Okay.
10 Do you pay half the rent; is
11 that --
12 A. About half. We also sublet to
13 David Lee, a former employee of mine.
14 Q. He also what?
15 A. We also sublet an office space
16 to David Lee, a former employee of mine.
17 And he does his own stuff.
18 Q. David Lee?
19 A. Uh-huh.
20 Q. He offices there, too?
21 A. Yes.
22 MR. SCHWARTZ: Can I ask Mr.
23 Zwirn to speak up, please?
24 THE WITNESS: Sure.
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2 you?
3 A. No, he's not.
4 Q. Is he still employed by any
5 companies you have been associated with?
6 A. No, he is not. Not that I know
7 of.
8 Q. Are you in the process of
9 raising a fund?
10 A. No, I'm not.
11 Q. Is Mr. Meister, to your
12 knowledge?
13 A. Not that I know of.
14 Q. Or Mr. Lee?
15 A. I'm not sure what he's doing.
16 Q. You don't have any idea what Mr.
17 Lee is doing today for a living?
18 A. I know he talks to different
19 companies. I know he advised some sort of
20 telecom company on some capital raising
21 alternatives or something like that.
22 Q. But you -- other than that, you
23 don't know the source of his income today?
24 A. No, I don't.
25 Q. Let me show you what's been
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2 marked as -- by the way, do you have a
3 home in Quogue?
4 A. I do not own a home in Quogue.
5 Q. Do you rent one there?
6 A. No, I don't.
7 MR. O'BRIEN: Can I just ask, has
8 Exhibit 86 already been marked?
9 MR. SUSMAN: I'm told it has not
10 been marked. Mr. Ard is the one who
11 gave me that, who did the telling.
12 MR. ARD: That's correct. It's
13 on that sheet as being marked.
14 MR. SIFFERT: Shouldn't it be
15 with the real tag?
16 MR. ARD: I think he's marking it
17 now with the real tag.
18 MR. SUSMAN: I'm sorry, what I'll
19 do is I have them previously marked.
20 I'll hand them to the witness. When
21 he's done with them, he'll hand it to
22 the reporter and the reporter will put
23 a sticker on them to just save the
24 time.
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2 MR. SUSMAN: I'll try to get
3 these numbered in a way that --
4 THE WITNESS: So is this not
5 Bates stamp.
6 MR. SIFFERT: It is Bates stamped
7 but it's not been previously marked at
8 a deposition.
9 Q. Do you recognize -- this is a
10 confidential memo copy number 001 that was
11 sent to Mr. Epstein in April of 2002 by
12 Highbridge Capital Management, LLC.
13 And you recognize this document;
14 do you not, sir?
15 A. I don't recall the document
16 being sent or -- but I recognize it. It
17 looks like the original offering memo.
18 Q. Okay.
19 I'm just going to use it to ask
20 you some questions about how this all got
21 going.
22 When did you first meet Glenn
23 Dubin?
24 A. Summer of 2001.
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2 A. Summer of 2001, roughly.
3 Q. Where did you meet him?
4 A. In his office.
5 Q. What was the occasion for your
6 meeting him?
7 A. One of his employees wanted to
8 introduce me to him.
9 Q. And did you discuss with him on
10 that occasion going to work for Highbridge
11 Capital Management?
12 A. I just I don't recall the
13 specifics of the conversation.
14 Q. At the time you met with Mr.
15 Dubin for the first time where were you
16 working?
17 A. MSD Capital.
18 Q. Okay.
19 Did there come a time when you
20 joined Mr. Dubin's company?
21 A. Yes.
22 Q. When was that?
23 A. September of 2001.
24 Q. Okay.
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2 when you joined his company?
3 A. Managing director.
4 Q. And the company -- it was a
5 managing director of what company?
6 A. Highbridge Capital Management.
7 Q. And in that capacity, what did
8 you do when September of '01 and up to
9 April, '02? Let's focus on that period.
10 A. I began -- I took the securities
11 exams, seven and sixty-three, for their --
12 that they wanted employees to do. I began
13 interviewing people and began investing
14 some amount of capital from their main
15 fund.
16 Q. Their main fund being?
17 A. I believe it was called
18 Highbridge Capital Corporation.
19 Q. Now, when did -- when was it
20 decided to -- how did Highbridge Zwirn
21 Special Opportunities Fund, LP come about?
22 A. I think in early 2002 we created
23 a separate management company, Highbridge
24 Zwirn Capital Management, LLC, with a view
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2 the same types of things -- additional
3 funds that would invest in the same types
4 of things I was investing in with
5 Highbridge Capital.
6 Q. And that was created when, in
7 January, '02?
8 A. Early '02. I don't remember the
9 month.
10 Q. Highbridge Capital Management,
11 LLC, when it was set up, who was the
12 managing member?
13 A. You mean Highbridge Zwirn
14 Capital Management, LLC?
15 Q. Yes, HZCM.
16 A. HZCM.
17 I don't recall the entity's
18 structure.
19 Q. Do you recall who owned a piece
20 of it?
21 A. Me, Glenn Dubin, and Henry
22 Swieca. In their case I believe it was an
23 entity that they controlled. I don't know
24 that they were the only investors in that
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2 Q. How much did you own?
3 A. Half.
4 Q. 50/50?
5 A. I believe so, yeah.
6 Q. And were you going to be the
7 person that was going to run this
8 management company?
9 A. I was going to select
10 investments for it but strategically on
11 the strategic decisions, key hires, and
12 things of that sort and capital raising, I
13 worked mostly with Glenn.
14 Q. Now, was the Highbridge Zwirn
15 Special Opportunities Fund, LP and there
16 was a -- can we all that the onshore fund?
17 Okay?
18 A. Okay.
19 Q. There was an offshore fund, too,
20 created at the same time?
21 A. I don't know that it was exactly
22 the same time, but around that time.
23 Q. Do you know which came first?
24 A. I don't recall.
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2 fund.
3 Other than those two funds, were
4 any other funds set up in 2002 which were
5 going to be managed by HZCM?
6 A. Not that I recall, other than of
7 course the capital from Highbridge which
8 was channeled through an entity called
9 HCM/Z I forgot what. But it was a
10 subsidiary of Highbridge Capital
11 Corporation.
12 Q. Let's take a look at page JE 228
13 of the document I've just given you.
14 MR. SIFFERT: That's number
15 eighty-six.
16 A. And to be clear, you said 2002.
17 I don't recall it -- whether we began
18 investing for Highbridge Capital
19 Corporation in '01. I'm not sure when the
20 CMZ Specialty Opportunities, LLC was
21 created, '01 or '02.
22 Q. Do that again?
23 A. You asked me which -- were there
24 any other entities created other than
25 onshore fund and offshore fund in 2002.
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2 Q. Right.
3 A. So there was an entity called
4 HCM/Z Special Opportunities. I'm not sure
5 whether it was formed in 2001 or 2002. It
6 was a subsidiary of Highbridge Capital
7 Corporation or potentially another entity
8 of Highbridge called Highbridge
9 International. I don't recall. And I
10 don't recall whether it was formed in 2001
11 and 2002. Or 2002.
12 Q. But it was formed before the
13 onshore and offshore funds were formed?
14
15
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18
19
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22
23
24 Q. If you will look at the last
25 paragraph of this page you're looking at, A. We were investing on behalf of
Highbridge before that, before the onshore
and offshore funds were started. I
believe the entity, that entity was
created before that time but I couldn't be
sure. We may have invested directly into
the Highbridge funds and then Highbridge
put those investments in that entity.
Either way it was Highbridge Capital
Corporation money in some form.
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2 it says, "the fund intends to establish
3 its initial portfolio by purchasing
4 investments from HCM/Z Special
5 Opportunities, LLC, the HCC subsidiary, a
6 Cayman Islands limited liability company
7 which is a subsidiary of Highbridge
8 Capital Corporation, a collective
9 investment fund managed by HCM."
10 So it's your recollection that
11 HCM/Z Special Opportunities, LLC was --
12 how long after you -- well, let me ask
13 that.
14 You don't recall when it was set
15 up; right?
16 A. I do not. I believe 2001 or
17 2002.
18 Q. Okay.
19 And did you have any ownership
20 in that entity?
21 MR. SIFFERT: Which entity?
22 MR. SUSMAN: The HCC subsidiary.
23 A. No.
24 MR. SIFFERT: That's the HCM/Z?
25 MR. SUSMAN: Huh?
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2 MR. SIFFERT: You're referring to
3 HCM/Z.
4 MR. SUSMAN: Special
5 Opportunities, LLC.
6 MR. SIFFERT: And the question is
7 did Mr. Zwirn have any ownership
8 interest in HCM/Z?
9 MR. SUSMAN: Correct.
10 A. No.
11 Q. And did you make -- before April
12 of '02, were you making investment
13 decisions for it?
14 A. As I said, we were making
15 investments starting in late '01 on behalf
16 of Highbridge. Whether they were through
17 HCM/Z, the HCM/Z entity or not, I just
18 don't recall.
19 Q. Do you know why this HCM/Z
20 special opportunities, LLC was set up?
21 A. I don't recall.
22 Q. But you never had -- did you
23 have any kind of indirect ownership in
24 that entity?
25 A. I don't know what you mean by
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2 that.
3 Q. You owned no interest in that
4 entity?
5 A. No, I did not.
6 Q. Let's go to DB Zwirn and
7 Company, LLC.
8 MR. SIFFERT: Are we done with
9 eighty-six?
10 MR. SUSMAN: No, we're not.
11 Q. You were the managing member as
12 of April, '02?
13 A. I don't recall the structure.
14 I'm reading it here so I have no reason to
15 believe that wasn't the case.
16 Q. Okay.
17 A. But I don't know that that has
18 anything to do with what became DB Zwirn
19 and Company, LP. As I sit here today, I
20 just don't recall.
21 Q. Were there other members of DB
22 Zwirn and Company, LLC other than you?
23 A. I just don't know how that
24 worked at that time. I don't recall.
25 Q. Do you recall -- it was a
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2 company.
3 Were there any officers or
4 directors of the company other than you
5 that you recall?
6 A. When?
7 Q. Back in 2002.
8 A. We began hiring people. I don't
9 know that any of those people were
10 officers of that, but I just don't recall
11 how it was structured.
12 Q. Okay.
13 This says that DBZ was the
14 managing member of Highbridge Zwirn
15 Partners, LLC which is referred to it says
16 as HZP or as the general partner.
17 Do you see that?
18 A. Or -- I don't see that.
19 Where are you talking about?
20 Q. I'm reading from the second --
21 the middle paragraph on the page we're
22 looking at.
23 A. Okay.
24 Q. HZP or the general partner is
25 the fund's general partner.
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2 Okay?
3 A. HZP. Okay. I see that.
4 MR. O'BRIEN: Is that HZP, Z as
5 in zebra? Because I think the
6 reporter is getting it down as a C.
7 MR. SIFFERT: We're going to have
8 to show the reporter this because the
9 initialing is all wrong throughout.
10 Q. When this was set up, who were
11 the other members, who else had an
12 ownership interest in HZP other than DB
13 Zwirn and Company?
14 A. To the extent that that or the
15 other one, HZCM was managing the outside
16 funds and being compensated for doing so,
17 as a general matter in some form, Glenn
18 and Henry had half and I had half. Again,
19 I just don't recall the mechanics of this.
20 Q. Okay.
21 And did -- and then there was an
22 entity called Highbridge Zwirn Capital
23 Management, an LLC, the trading manager,
24 and again that was a 50/50 ownership, as
25 you recall?
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2 A. What I said was to the extent
3 that the outside funds were compensated
4 for being managed, my general
5 understanding is Glenn and Henry in some
6 form their entity had half and I had half.
7 Again, I don't recall how the legal
8 structure worked.
9 Q. Okay.
10 Now, did there come a time when
11 there were other owners or members added
12 to either Highbridge Zwirn Partners or
13 Highbridge Zwirn Capital Management?
14 A. I don't recall whether these
15 specific entities had additional members
16 added. As a general matter over time in
17 terms of the entities that were paid to
18 manage the outside funds, there were
19 additional people that were added as
20 owners.
21 Q. Okay.
22 So you say there were different
23 people added to the trading manager over
24 time?
25 A. Again, I don't recall. Trading
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2 manager I think was a Highbridge kind of
3 construct. I just don't recall the
4 structure. I'm just trying to make it
5 simple and say in terms of the owners of
6 the management company or companies that
7 managed the funds, additional owners were
8 added. Whether it was the trading manager
9 or not or whether it was called Highbridge
10 Zwirn Capital Management at the time or
11 not I just don't recall.
12 Q. Who was added?
13 A. In terms of people who were
14 added over time to the ownership group,
15 those people included Chris Suan, Vasan
16 Kesavan.
17 Q. Chris Suan what?
18 A. Chris Suan, S U A N, Vasan
19 Kesavan, and Perry Gruss at some point.
20 Q. And do you recall who
21 percentages of ownership each of them had?
22 A. I don't recall the specific
23 numbers. I would say probably less than
24 five.
25 Q. Less than five for each of them
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2 or collectively?
3 A. Each of them. And they may have
4 changed over time. I don't recall.
5 Q. Did you have any ownership
6 interest in Highbridge Capital
7 Corporation?
8 A. No.
9 Q. There was a -- at some point in
10 time Highbridge Zwirn Capital Management
11 or the manager, it's called here the
12 trading manager, handled a what's called a
13 managed account for Highbridge.
14 Do you know what that refers to?
15 A. There was a time I guess
16 starting in 2004 in conjunction with our
17 moving offices where Highbridge wanted to
18 change the structure because of their
19 internal reasons and at that point I
20 became -- I stopped being a managing
21 director of Highbridge and became we
22 referred to it as a senior adviser of
23 Highbridge and the capital that was
24 managed on behalf of Highbridge, instead
25 of having a portfolio manager effectively
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2 who was an employee of Highbridge which
3 would have been me, became a managing
4 account effectively of the management
5 companies that were being -- that were
6 managing the various funds that we were
7 managing.
8 Q. Well, that -- look if you will
9 at page 234 of this document eighty-six.
10 At the top of the page it says, "the
11 non-U.S. fund" -- this is the first full
12 paragraph. "The non-U.S. fund and the HZC
13 subsidiary will be managed using trading
14 strategies generally similar to those the
15 trading manager will use for the fund."
16 Do you see that?
17 A. I do.
18 Q. But the trading manager was not
19 actually managing the HZC subsidiary or
20 was it at that time?
21 A. Well, as I said, I think at that
22 time before the 2004 relocation that I
23 described, I was an employee of Highbridge
24 who was managing the subsidiary.
25 Q. Okay.
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2 A. Which was a subsidiary of the
3 Highbridge Capital Corporation.
4 Q. Right.
5 It says the next under general
6 partner, the last sentence says, "the
7 general partner's responsible for the
8 management and administration of the fund
9 generally." And then it says trading
10 manager, "the trading manager" -- last
11 sentence -- "is responsible for all
12 investment activities of the fund."
13 Now, is that, in fact, how it
14 was divided up or did that change?
15 MR. ARFFA: I object to form.
16 A. As I said, I don't recall how
17 the entities were structured at that time
18 beyond what I've said.
19 Q. Do you recall at any point in
20 time -- well, my question is the general
21 partner.
22 Was it, in fact, in practice did
23 this ever handle management and
24 administration of the fund generally
25 itself?
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2 A. I don't understand by itself.
3 Q. Well, the trading manager --
4 A. Okay.
5 Q. -- here Highbridge Zwirn Capital
6 Management is responsible for investment
7 activities of the fund; right?
8 A. I can read it, yes. Barely.
9 Q. Did -- HZCM had employees;
10 correct?
11 A. At this time I believe we were
12 hiring the employees into Highbridge.
13 Q. They were being hired by
14 Highbridge?
15 A. I believe.
16 Q. Okay.
17 Highbridge Capital Management?
18 A. I believe so.
19 Q. Okay.
20 And that's true for the general
21 partner, too, its employees were all hired
22 by Highbridge Capital Management?
23 A. I don't know that the general
24 partner as described here in this case had
25 any employees at this time. But again, I
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2 just don't recall how it was structured.
3 Q. Fair enough.
4 Now look at Exhibit 93.
5 A. Am I done with this?
6 Q. Yes.
7 MR. SIFFERT: Is this also a new
8 exhibit?
9 MR. SUSMAN: Yes.
10 MR. SIFFERT: So the reporter
11 will mark it later.
12 Q. Now, this is a redlined version
13 of a confidential offering memo from May,
14 2005 and I want you to look at page 2999
15 because obviously the structure changed
16 and this may help us discuss what changes
17 took place.
18 Okay, Mr. Zwirn?
19 A. Okay.
20 Q. If you look at the second full
21 paragraph, DB Zwirn Partners, LLC.
22 Now, that is the -- DBZP or the
23 general partner is the fund's general
24 partner.
25 Okay?
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2 A. Okay.
3 Q. And Zwirn Holdings, LLC is the
4 fund's manager. I'm sorry, DB Zwirn and
5 Company, LP was the fund's manager.
6 Do you see that?
7 A. I do see it.
8 Q. Okay.
9 And so this was just a change in
10 the entities that did these functions?
11 MR. SIFFERT: Objection as to
12 form.
13 A. I don't understand.
14 What's the question?
15 Q. Huh?
16 MR. SIFFERT: He said he didn't
17 understand the question is what he
18 said.
19 Q. Okay.
20 Under the original onshore fund,
21 the general partner was something called
22 Highbridge Zwirn Partners, LLC. Now it is
23 changed to DB Zwirn Partners, LLC.
24 Okay?
25 A. Yes. Again, I heard you say
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2 that. I don't know that that's how it
3 switched. There is a number of moving
4 parts here. I don't see -- one, I don't
5 know that this is what we ended up with
6 because this is a draft document.
7 Two, I don't see the notion of a
8 trading manager or how that works with
9 this. I just don't recall.
10 Three, there's some complexity
11 here caused by the JP Morgan transaction
12 for Highbridge where they're changing
13 around what's Swieca versus which
14 Highbridge, et cetera. I don't recall.
15 It wasn't my business; I don't recall what
16 they were doing there. I don't know that
17 you can map one to one from that document
18 to this. I don't know that you can't. I
19 just don't know.
20 Q. Daniel B. Zwirn it says is a
21 managing member of Zwirn Holdings.
22 And it says here, "Dubin and
23 Swieca Asset Management, LLC formally
24 known as Highbridge Capital Management,
25 LLC, will, for a period of time, be a
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2 minority member of the general member, a
3 minority partner of the manager, as well
4 as a minority member of the manager's
5 general partner."
6 What ownership interest did they
7 have? Was their interest the same in all
8 three?
9 A. Again, I don't recall exactly
10 the structure and I don't know that this
11 was the final structure since this is a
12 draft document.
13 As a general matter, what we
14 referred to as the firm that we had, they
15 were originally fifty percent and then
16 that changed over time.
17 Q. And how did it change over time?
18 A. It went to somewhere in the 40s
19 over a period of time, then it would have
20 gone to somewhere in the 30s, and
21 ultimately gone to zero.
22 Q. Do you recall when it went --
23 A. I don't recall the specific
24 years.
25 Q. -- that it made the change?
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2 A. I'm sorry, what was the
3 question? What change?
4 Q. Okay.
5 And this is --
6 MR. SIFFERT: I'm sorry, Mr.
7 Susman, I don't think there was an
8 answer to the question because I don't
9 think he heard the question properly.
10 He interrupted the question and said
11 he didn't understand your question.
12 A. You referred to a change. I
13 don't know what you meant.
14 Q. From fifty to forty to thirty.
15 A. It's fifty to somewhere in the
16 40s to somewhere in the 30s. I don't
17 recall the years during which that
18 happened.
19 Q. Do you recall when it went to
20 zero?
21 A. As originally scheduled, it
22 would have occurred somewhere around 2008
23 or nine, but it was ultimately -- it went
24 to zero earlier than that.
25 Q. It was ultimately what? When?
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2 A. At the time of --
3 MR. ARFFA: Asked and answered.
4 Q. When?
5 MR. SIFFERT: You may answer the
6 question of when it went to zero, if
7 you remember.
8 A. I guess in -- I believe in 2007
9 which was earlier than originally
10 scheduled.
11 Q. Now, if you will look at this
12 document -- oh, there's something here
13 called DB Zwirn Special Opportunities Fund
14 TE.
15 What was that?
16 A. Where are you looking?
17 Q. The same paragraph we've been
18 looking at but towards the bottom.
19 A. I think that was another fund
20 that was for tax exempt onshore investors.
21 Q. Why was that set up?
22 A. I believe because those people
23 had separate treatment on -- for various
24 things. I believe it was related to a
25 thing called UBTI, but I don't recall the
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2 specifics of it.
3 Q. Were you the person who decided
4 to set it up?
5 A. I don't recall how the decision
6 was made.
7 Q. Do you recall when it was set
8 up?
9 A. I don't recall.
10 Q. Now, from 2002 when the onshore
11 fund got going to two thousand -- through
12 2006, let's focus on that time frame, an
13 entity which you ran managed the onshore
14 fund; right?
15 A. I don't recall the specific
16 structure. It was a management company or
17 multiple management companies of which I
18 was originally the managing partner with a
19 different set of owners at different
20 percentages at different times over the
21 time frame that you've described.
22 Q. Because it's changed, I tried to
23 make it kind of more generic, Mr. Zwirn, I
24 said you ran it, you were the boss.
25 A. I spent the majority of my time
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2 on -- focusing on the investments.
3 Q. Okay.
4 And the -- and to make this as
5 investments for whom?
6 A. The investments that would be
7 owned by the funds that were being -- or
8 entities that were being managed.
9 Q. And what were the funds or
10 entities that were being managed during
11 the time frame May 1, 2002 through 2006?
12 MR. ARFFA: I'm going to object
13 to form.
14 Is it easier to break down the
15 management entities from the funds?
16 Q. Go ahead, you may answer the
17 question.
18 A. It changed over time.
19 Q. I want to know the complete list
20 of funds or entities that were being
21 managed by some entity with which you in
22 turn were running.
23 A. Over that period of time, there
24 were management companies of which I was a
25 partner or equivalent where my primary
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2 focus was selecting investments. I was
3 not necessarily running those entities
4 depending on the entities. The funds or
5 entities over that period of time that
6 were managed at any one point during that
7 time but not necessarily at all times to
8 my recollection would have included the
9 Highbridge subsidiary, the onshore fund,
10 the offshore fund, the TE fund, I believe
11 at some point there was a thing called an
12 offshore two. I forgot what
13 differentiated that from the offshore
14 fund. There were some managed accounted
15 associated with individual investors.
16 There was an
17 Q. Who would those have been?
18 MR. ARFFA: Let the record
19 reflect the witness was cut off before
20 he concluded his prior answer.
21 MR. SUSMAN: Oh, I'm sorry.
22 A. In addition, there was an Asian
23 fund, I believe.
24 Q. Asian fund?
25 A. Yeah.
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2 And then there were entities in
3 which the management company had an
4 interest where the investment involvement
5 varied that included a European real
6 estate fund, potentially private equity
7 fund -- I don't recall where we were on
8 that -- a value equity fund
9 Q. Hang on.
10 It was a European real estate
11 A. Fund, yeah.
12 Q. -- fund?
13 A. I believe a private equity fund.
14 Q. Do you know the name of it?
15 A. It would have been under ZM.
16 Q. ZM, what is ZM?
17 A. It would have stood for Zwirn
18 Morgan.
19 Q. Zwirn Morgan?
20 A. Yes.
21 Q. What is Zwirn Morgan?
22 A. That was a partnership whose
23 owners included a guy called Quinn Morgan
24 and the owners of -- and the DB
25 Zwirn-related management companies for the
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2 purpose of doing private equity -type
3 investments.
4 Q. Anyone else?
5 A. I think that's all the funds.
6 Again, I don't know that -- all of those
7 were certainly not managed continually
8 over the time frame you've described, but
9 at least at some point I think were during
10 that time.
11 Q. Now let me go back.
12 I know the onshore fund, the
13 Highbridge subsidiary, we've talked about
14 it, offshore funds, tax -- TE fund, tax
15 exempt fund; correct?
16 A. Yes.
17 Q. There was an offshore two, and
18 then you said there were managed accounts.
19 Which managed accounts?
20 A. I don't recall the actual names
21 of the accounts, but there were managed
22 accounts --
23 MR. ARFFA: I would designate
24 here as confidential any of the names
25 of the specific investors.
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2 You can go ahead.
3 MR. SUSMAN: I think the whole
4 thing's confidential, isn't that the
5 way it works, and then you review it?
6 MR. ARFFA: That's fine. Why
7 don't we do it that way.
8 THE WITNESS: Should I say that
9 or should I not?
10 MR. SIFFERT: You may.
11 A. There was -- there were entities
12 managed o behalf --
13 Q. I'm sorry, who were the managed
14 accounts?
15 MR. SIFFERT: He said I don't
16 recall the names but there were
17 managed accounts --
18 Q. Go ahead.
19 A. Managed on behalf of a company
20 called Coast Asset Management.
21 Q. Called what?
22 A. Coast.
23 Q. How do you spell it?
24 A. COAS T.
25 Q. Coast Asset Management?
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2 A. I don't know if it's Coast
3 Management or Coast Asset Management,
4 something like that, but Coast. And there
5 were some entities managed on behalf of a
6 company called Delphi Financial.
7 Q. Called what?
8 A. Delphi Financial.
9 Q. Okay.
10 A. That's all I recall.
11 Q. What was the -- Delphi, is that
12 the I notice they're listed on your
13 investor list.
14 There were managed accounts for
15 them, you say, that were brought to you by
16 Delphi?
17 MR. ARFFA: Objection to form.
18 A. I don't know what you mean by
19 brought to us, but they were the company
20 that -- for whom we managed these
21 accounts.
22 Q. Okay.
23 And did you know -- did you know
24 at the time or have access to the names of
25 the accounts?
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2 A. I believe it was --
3 Q. Or was it just Delphi.
4 A. No, I don't think there were
5 different names. I just don't recall.
6 Q. Did Delphi have money of its own
7 invested with you?
8 A. I don't know that the money that
9 was under the different names wasn't
10 theirs. I don't know how they were
11 structured.
12 Q. And was Delphi -- who did you
13 deal with at Delphi, was that Robert
14 Rosenkrantz?
15 A. Him, Robert Smith, Rick Waldis.
16 Q. And Coast Asset Management, who
17 was that?
18 A. That was an asset management
19 company.
20 Q. Huh?
21 A. It was an asset management
22 company.
23 Q. Yeah.
24 Who was -- what was Coast Asset
25 Management?
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2 A. My best understanding, it was an
3 asset manager focused on different
4 alternative investment strategies.
5 Q. Who did you deal with there?
6 A. And again, to answer that
7 question, I didn't deal with them most of
8 the time. That's the same thing with
9 Delphi. But when I did, there were
10 several people. The only one whose name I
11 see Rick is Des Worthman. Des with a W.
12 I don't recall the last name.
13 Q. What was the name of the Asian
14 fund?
15 A. I don't recall the name,
16 specific name of that.
17 Q. What was the name of the
18 European real estate fund?
19 A. It was called ThreadGreen.
20 Q. Spell it, please.
21 A. THREADcapitalGREE N,
22 all one word.
23 Q. Okay.
24 And the private equity fund was
25 called what?
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2 A. I think we discussed that. It
3 was ZM.
4 Q. ZM?
5 A. Yeah. I don't recall the full
6 name of the funds or also where we were in
7 the development of that over the time
8 frame you discussed.
9 Q. Now, if you will look at
10 MR. SIFFERT: I think I'm going
11 to want to take a break in about two
12 or three minutes.
13 MR. SUSMAN: I just want to ask
14 one question here.
15 THE VIDEOGRAPHER: You have eight
16 minutes left on the tape.
17 Q. Look at page four. It's 3007,
18 Bates number 3007.
19 Do you see the general partner
20 description there?
21 A. (Reviewing) .
22 I do.
23 Q. And it says the general
24 partner's responsible for the management
25 and administration of the fund. And if
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2 you look down at manager, it says the
3 manager is responsible for all investment
4 activities of the fund.
5 Do you see that?
6 A. I do.
7 Q. Now, is that the way things
8 actually worked, that administrative and
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16 Q. I'm not asking you whether the
17 document was operative. I'm using it the
18 document only to ask you to -- as kind of
19 a help for you to explain, Mr. Zwirn, what
20 functions, for example, were being
21 performed by the general partner -- let's
22 take 2006 for example.
23 You had a general partner and
24 you had a manager; right?
25 A. As I said, I don't recall the management of the fund was handled by the
general partner and investment activities
were handled by the manager?
A. Well, I don't know that this
document was ever operative or in what
form it ultimately became operative. This
is a d
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