UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

Morning Session:

Set: 9:30 AM (AST)

Started: 9:39 AM (AST)

Ended: 11:54 PM (AST)

Afternoon Session:

Set: 1:00 PM (AST)

Started: 1:07 PM (AST)

Ended: 2:19 PM (AST)

MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS

BEFORE U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE LAURA TAYLOR SWAIN

MAGISTRATE JUDGE JUDITH G. DEIN DATE: June 6, 2018

COURTROOM DEPUTY: Carmen Tacoronte

COURT REPORTER: Amy Walker

Siemens Transportation Partnership Puerto 

Rico, S.E. 

3:18-AP-030 (LTS)

Plaintiff, in 17-BK-3567 (LTS)

v.

Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation 

Authority, et al.

Defendants.

Omnibus Hearing held.

In Re: 

The Financial Oversight and Management 

Board for Puerto Rico

as representative of

3:17-BK-3283 (LTS)

(Jointly Administered)

The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, et al.

Debtors.

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I. Status Reports

1. Status report from the Oversight Board heard.

2. Response to questions regarding the status report filed in 3:18-AP-30 (LTS). [Docket Entry 39]. 

 Proposed order to be submitted regarding proposed schedule for GDB Title VI filing. 

 Order to be entered denying without prejudice the expedited briefing schedule 

proposed in connection with the pending motions to dismiss (Docket Entry Nos. 39 

and 40 in Case No. 18-ap-30) and the motion for preservation of funds (Docket Entry 

No. 13 in Case No. 18-ap-30).

II. Fee Applications 

1. Report from the Fee Examiner on Second Interim Applications for Compensation.

 Order(s) will be issued approving the following applications: 

Applicant Docket Nos. Period

1. Ernst & Young LLP (Financial Advisor to FOMB) 2780 10/1/17 – 1/31/18

2. Cancio, Nadal, Rivera & Diaz, P.S.C. (Attorneys for PREPA) 2754; 2791 10/1/17 – 12/31/17

3. O’Melveny & Myers LLP (Counsel to AAFAF) 2758 10/1/17 – 1/31/18

4. O’Melveny & Myers LLP (Counsel to AAFAF regarding COFINA) 2759 10/1/17 – 1/31/18

5. O’Melveny & Myers LLP (Counsel to AAFAF regarding ERS) 2760 10/1/17 – 1/31/18

6. O’Melveny & Myers LLP (Counsel to AAFAF regarding HTA) 2761 10/1/17 – 1/31/18

7. Law Office of Andres W. Lopez, PSC (Counsel to AAFAF) 2781 10/1/17 – 12/31/17

8. Greenberg Traurig, LLC (counsel for AAFAF, as Fiscal Agent for 

PREPA)

2801 10/1/17 – 1/31/17

9. Greenberg Traurig, LLC (counsel for PREPA) 2800 10/1/17 – 1/31/17

10. Filsinger Energy Partners (Chief Financial Advisor to PREPA)* 2721 12/7/17 – 1/31/18

11. Bettina M. Whyte (COFINA Agent) 2725 10/1/17 – 1/31/18

12. Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP (Special Municipal Bankruptcy 

Counsel to Bettina M. Whyte)

2728 10/1/17 – 1/31/18

13. Nilda M. Navarro-Cabrer (Local Counsel to Bettina M. Whyte) 2726 10/1/17 – 1/31/18

14. Willkie, Farr and Gallagher, LLP (Counsel to Bettina M. Whyte) 2727 10/1/17 – 1/31/18

15. Paul Hastings LLP (Counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured 

Creditors)

2735 10/1/17 – 1/31/18

16. Casillas, Santiago & Torres, LLC (Local Counsel to the Official 

Committee of Unsecured Creditors)

2757 9/1/17 – 1/31/18

17. Jenner & Block LLP (Counsel to the Official Committee of Retired 

Employees)

2741 10/1/17 – 1/31/18

18. Bennazar, García & Milián, C.S.P. (Local Counsel to the Official 

Committee of Retired Employees)

2743 10/1/17 – 1/31/18

19. FTI Consulting, Inc. (Financial Advisor to the Official Committee of 

Retired Employees)

2740 10/1/17 – 1/31/18

20. Phoenix Management Services, LLC (Financial Advisor to the 

Mediation Team)

2724 10/2/17 – 2/4/18

21. Members of the Official Committee of Retired Employees 2734 10/1/17 – 1/31/18

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Applicant Docket Nos. Period

22. Drivetrain, LLC & the American Federation of Teachers (Members 

of the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors)

2737 5/1/17 – 1/31/18

23. Pension Trustee Advisors, Inc. (Pension Consultant to FOMB) 2719 10/1/17 – 1/31/18

*An asterisk next to a name denotes that this is the first interim application filed by the applicant. 

III. Uncontested Matters

1. Fee Examiner’s Motion to Amend the Fee Examiner Order [Case No. 17-3283, ECF No. 3032].

 Granted in part and denied in part. 

 A revised proposed order is to be presented.

2. [Reserved on Agenda.] 

3. PREPA’s Removal Extension Motion [Case No. 17-3283, ECF No. 3093].

 Granted in part. A revised proposed order is to be presented.

IV. Contested Matters

1. Official Committee of Retired Employees Motion Regarding Representation of PREPA Retirees 

[Case No. 17-3283, ECF No. 3056]

 Denied without prejudice. Order to be issued. 

2. Creditors’ Committee’s Renewed Motion for Order Authorizing Discovery Program [Case No. 

17-3283, ECF No. 3066]

 Arguments heard during the afternoon session before Magistrate Judge Dein.

 Parties to submit status reports and Motion to be continued at later hearing in 

Boston. Order to be issued setting schedule. 

3. Joint Motion for Order Further Amending Interim Compensation Order [Case No. 17-3283, 

ECF No. 3133]

 Counsel informed that the matter is no longer contested.

 Order to be issued. 

V. Adjourned Matters

1. Tamrio Motion to Compel. Motion to Compel the Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation 

Authority to Assume or Reject Executory Contracts [Case No. 17-3283, ECF No. 614].

2. Constructora Santiago II, Corp. Motion to Compel. Motion to Compel the Puerto Rico 

Highways and Transportation Authority to Assume or Reject Executory Contracts [Case No. 

17-3283, ECF No. 627].

3. Ferrovial SA Motion to Compel. Motion to Compel the Puerto Rico Highways and 

Transportation Authority to Assume or Reject Executory Contracts [Case No. 17-3283, ECF No. 

685].

4. Ferrovial Agroman LLC Motion to Compel. Motion to Compel the Puerto Rico Highways and 

Transportation Authority to Assume or Reject Executory Contracts [Case No. 17-3283, ECF No. 

686].

VI. Adjourned Fee Applications

1. Report from the Fee Examiner regarding First Interim Applications for Compensation.

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Applicant Docket No. Period

1. McKinsey & Company, Inc. Washington D.C. (Consulting Services 

Provider to FOMB)

2073 5/3/17 – 9/30/17

2. Proskauer Rose LLP (Attorneys for FOMB, as representative of 

Debtor Commonwealth)

2068 5/3/17 – 9/30/17

3. Proskauer Rose LLP (Attorneys for FOMB, as representative of 

Debtor COFINA)

2043 5/5/17 – 9/30/17

4. Proskauer Rose LLP (Attorneys for FOMB, as representative of 

Debtor ERS)

2045 5/21/17 – 9/30/17

5. Proskauer Rose LLP (Attorneys for FOMB, as representative of 

Debtor PREPA)

2053 7/2/17 – 9/30/17

6. Proskauer Rose LLP (Attorneys for FOMB, as representative of 

Debtor HTA)

2066 5/21/17 – 9/30/17

2. Report from the Fee Examiner regarding First Interim Applications for Compensation.

Applicant Docket No. Period

1. Proskauer Rose LLP (Attorneys for FOMB, as representative of 

Debtor Commonwealth)

2868 10/1/17 – 1/31/18

2. Proskauer Rose LLP (Attorneys for FOMB, as representative of 

Debtor COFINA)

2870 10/1/17 – 1/31/18

3. Proskauer Rose LLP (Attorneys for FOMB, as representative of 

Debtor ERS)

2872 10/1/17 – 1/31/18

4. Proskauer Rose LLP (Attorneys for FOMB, as representative of 

Debtor PREPA)

2876 10/1/17 – 1/31/18

5. Proskauer Rose LLP (Attorneys for FOMB, as representative of 

Debtor HTA)

2874 10/1/17 – 1/31/18

6. O’Neill & Borges LLC (Attorneys to FOMB) 2859 10/1/17 – 1/31/18

7. McKinsey & Company, Inc. Washington D.C. (Consulting Services 

Provider to FOMB)

2756 10/1/17 – 1/31/18

8. Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP (Financial Advisors to the 

Debtors)

3017 10/1/17 – 1/31/18

9. Luskin, Stern & Eisler LLP (Special Counsel to FOMB) 2729 10/1/17 – 1/31/18

10. Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (Investment Banker and Financial 

Advisor to FOMB)*

2944 1/27/17 – 1/31/18

11. Andrew Wolfe (Independent Contractor to FOMB) 2718 10/1/17 – 1/31/18

12. DLA Piper (Puerto Rico) LLC and DLA Piper LLP (US) (Counsel to 

AAFAF)*

2778 6/1/17 – 1/31/18

13. Ankura Consulting Group, LLC (Financial Advisors to 

Commonwealth)

2751 10/1/17 – 1/31/18

14. Ankura Consulting Group, LLC (Financial Advisors to PREPA) 2755 10/1/17 – 1/31/18

15. Zolfo Cooper (Financial Advisor to the Official Committee of 

Unsecured Creditors)

2739 10/1/17 – 1/31/18

16. Segal Consulting (Actuaries and Consultants to the Official 

Committee of Retired Employees)

2742 10/1/17 – 1/31/18

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Applicant Docket No. Period

17. Marchand ICS Group (Information Agent to the Official Committee 

of Retired Employees)

2736 10/1/17 – 1/31/18

s/Carmen Tacoronte

Carmen Tacoronte

Courtroom Deputy 

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