AIG Financial Products Corp. files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

In a regulatory filing, AIG said, "On December 14, 2022, American International Group announced that a wholly-owned subsidiary called AIG Financial Products Corp. filed a voluntary petition to reorganize under Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the United States Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware and filed a proposed plan of reorganization. The reorganization will not have a material impact on the consolidated balance sheets of AIG or Corebridge Financial, Inc. or their respective businesses, and concludes AIG’s wind-down of FP, a process that has been ongoing since the 2008 financial crisis. An independent Special Committee of FP’s board of directors determined that the Filing and Plan of Reorganization present the best path forward to conclude the wind-down of FP. Alvarez & Marsal North America, LLC and Latham & Watkins LLP are advisors to FP. FP, formerly based in Connecticut, has no material operations or businesses and no employees. FP’s subsidiaries are not a party to the Filing and will continue to manage any remaining positions with a very limited number of counterparties. As disclosed in the Filing, AIG is FP’s largest remaining creditor. In 2008, AIG received emergency loans from the U.S. Federal Reserve to ensure the stability of the financial system. AIG then extended a substantial portion of the 2008 Bailout Funds to FP in the form of inter-company loans to satisfy FP’s obligations to counterparties through and following the Financial Crisis. As of January 2013, AIG fully repaid the 2008 Bailout Funds to the U.S. Federal Reserve. From an accounting perspective, although there are still significant amounts due from FP to AIG through inter-company loans, the Filing will have no net impact on AIG’s consolidated financial statements. Additionally, all of AIG’s and FP’s Financial Crisis losses were recognized in AIG’s financial statements in 2008. Since 2008, FP has been subject to various lawsuits related to the Financial Crisis, with only one such lawsuit still pending in a Connecticut state court. All other lawsuits have been resolved. The Connecticut Litigation was brought in late 2019 by 46 former Connecticut-based FP executives who are seeking to recover profit-sharing bonuses they allege they are entitled to under legacy deferred compensation plans that pre-date the Financial Crisis. The plaintiffs allege that the profit-sharing bonuses are recoverable despite the fact that FP’s tens of billions of dollars in Financial Crisis losses led to the need for the 2008 Bailout Funds. These Financial Crisis losses eliminated all of the profit-sharing bonus account balances. The claims in the Connecticut Litigation are fundamentally identical to those brought in 2014 in an English trial court by former London-based executives of FP and related FP entities and funded by an affiliate of Therium Capital Management Limited, a litigation finance firm. In 2018, the English trial court found in favor of the plaintiffs; however, in 2020, a unanimous English Court of Appeal, applying Connecticut law, reversed the trial court decision and ruled in favor of FP, holding that the former executives were not entitled to any of the claimed profit-sharing bonus amounts as a matter of law. The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom denied leave to appeal from the Court of Appeal’s decision, making the Court of Appeal’s decision final and binding. FP has contended in the Connecticut Litigation, as it did in the English Litigation, that under the terms of the deferred compensation plans, former FP executives are not entitled to any recoveries because FP never generated profits following its tens of billions of dollars in Financial Crisis losses. Furthermore, the terms of the deferred compensation plans provide that upon a bankruptcy filing by FP, any financial obligation of FP under the deferred compensation plans is subordinate to all other liabilities of FP. Pursuant to the terms of the Plan of Reorganization, the only funds available to the 46 former FP executives to extinguish their claims would be an equal share in a limited pool of $1 million."