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CrossHarbor Capital Gains Yellowstone Club in Big Sky, Montana

YC Slope & Lodge Brett Fagan

 

 

Ushering in a new era for the Yellowstone Mountain Club, Sam Byrne's Boston-based Crossharbor Capital has won control of Big Sky, Montana's Yellowstone Club with a bid of $115 million.

Judge Ralph Kirscher ok'd the bid, which includes Sam Byrne's commitment to inject up to $75 million into the Club, with $19 million dedicated to pay unsecured creditors, most of whom are regional business owners.

The Yellowstone Club is a private 13,600 acre ski and golf community in Big Sky, MT.

Yellowstone Club Bankruptcy Ruling: Judge Kirschner Rebukes Credit Suisse

On Tuesday, May 12, 2009, according to an article in NewWest.net, U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Ralph B. Kirscher declared, "that Credit Suisse actions in making a $375 million loan to the Yellowstone Club were "so far overreaching and self-serving that they shocked the conscience of this court," U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Ralph B. Kirscher on Tuesday ruled that Credit Suisse's secured claim to $232 million of the remaining $310 million loan balance would be "subordinated" to the claims of tradesmen, vendors and other unsecured creditors in the case."