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IN THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA RICHMOND DIVISION In re: Chapter 11 CHINOS HOLDINGS, INC., et al. 1 Case No. 20-32181 (KLP) Debtors. (Jointly Administered) PROOF OF PUBLICATION Attached hereto as Exhibit A is the Proof of Publication for the Notice of (I) Entry of Order Confirming the Amended Joint Prearranged Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization and (II) Occurrence of the Effective Date of the Plan [Docket No. 911] that was published in The New York Times National Edition on September 15, 2020. Attached hereto as Exhibit B is the Proof of Publication for the Notice of (I) Entry of Order Confirming the Amended Joint Prearranged Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization and (II) Occurrence of the Effective Date of the Plan [Docket No. 911] that was published in The New York Times International Edition on September 22, 2020. Attached hereto as Exhibit C is the Proof of Publication for the Notice of (I) Entry of Order Confirming the Amended Joint Prearranged Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization and (II) Occurrence of the Effective Date of the Plan [Docket No. 911] that was published in The New York Times International Edition on September 23, 2020. Dated: September 23, 2020 /s/ Darleen Sahagun_ ___ Darleen Sahagun Omni Agent Solutions 5955 DeSoto Avenue, Suite 100 Woodland Hills, California 91367 (818) 906-8300 Claims, Noticing, and Administrative Agent for the Debtor 1 The Debtors in these chapter 11 cases, along with the last four digits of each Debtor’s federal tax identification number, as applicable, are Chinos Holdings, Inc. (3834); Chinos Intermediate Holdings A, Inc. (3301); Chinos Intermediate, Inc. (3871); Chinos Intermediate Holdings B, Inc. (3244); J. Crew Group, Inc. (4486); J. Crew Operating Corp. (0930); Grace Holmes, Inc. (1409); H.F.D. No. 55, Inc. (9438); J. Crew Inc. (6360); J. Crew International, Inc. (2712); J. Crew Virginia, Inc. (5626); Madewell Inc. (8609); J. Crew Brand Holdings, LLC (7625); J. Crew Brand Intermediate, LLC (3860); J. Crew Brand, LLC (1647); J. Crew Brand Corp. (1616); J. Crew Domestic Brand, LLC (8962); and J. Crew International Brand, LLC (7471). The Debtors’ corporate headquarters and service address is 225 Liberty St., New York, NY 10281. Case 20-32181-KLP Doc 953 Filed 09/24/20 Entered 09/24/20 09:14:05 Desc Main Document Page 1 of 10

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IN THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA

RICHMOND DIVISION

In re:

Chapter 11

CHINOS HOLDINGS, INC., et al.1 Case No. 20-32181 (KLP) Debtors.

(Jointly Administered)

PROOF OF PUBLICATION

Attached hereto as Exhibit A is the Proof of Publication for the Notice of (I) Entry of Order

Confirming the Amended Joint Prearranged Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization and (II) Occurrence of the Effective Date of the Plan [Docket No. 911] that was published in The New York Times National Edition on September 15, 2020.

Attached hereto as Exhibit B is the Proof of Publication for the Notice of (I) Entry of Order

Confirming the Amended Joint Prearranged Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization and (II) Occurrence of the Effective Date of the Plan [Docket No. 911] that was published in The New York Times International Edition on September 22, 2020.

Attached hereto as Exhibit C is the Proof of Publication for the Notice of (I) Entry of Order

Confirming the Amended Joint Prearranged Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization and (II) Occurrence of the Effective Date of the Plan [Docket No. 911] that was published in The New York Times International Edition on September 23, 2020.

Dated: September 23, 2020

/s/ Darleen Sahagun_ ___ Darleen Sahagun Omni Agent Solutions 5955 DeSoto Avenue, Suite 100 Woodland Hills, California 91367 (818) 906-8300 Claims, Noticing, and Administrative Agent for the Debtor

1 The Debtors in these chapter 11 cases, along with the last four digits of each Debtor’s federal tax identification number, as applicable,

are Chinos Holdings, Inc. (3834); Chinos Intermediate Holdings A, Inc. (3301); Chinos Intermediate, Inc. (3871); Chinos Intermediate Holdings B, Inc. (3244); J. Crew Group, Inc. (4486); J. Crew Operating Corp. (0930); Grace Holmes, Inc. (1409); H.F.D. No. 55, Inc. (9438); J. Crew Inc. (6360); J. Crew International, Inc. (2712); J. Crew Virginia, Inc. (5626); Madewell Inc. (8609); J. Crew Brand Holdings, LLC (7625); J. Crew Brand Intermediate, LLC (3860); J. Crew Brand, LLC (1647); J. Crew Brand Corp. (1616); J. Crew Domestic Brand, LLC (8962); and J. Crew International Brand, LLC (7471). The Debtors’ corporate headquarters and service address is 225 Liberty St., New York, NY 10281.

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OAKLAND, Calif. — While Face-book has heralded improvementsto its fight against disinformationin the United States, it has beenslow to deal with fake accountsthat have affected electionsaround the world, according to apost published by a former em-ployee.

The employee, who worked on aFacebook team dedicated to root-ing out so-called inauthentic activ-ity on the service, said executivesignored or were slow to react toher repeated warnings about theproblem.

“In the three years I’ve spent atFacebook, I’ve found multiple bla-tant attempts by foreign nationalgovernments to abuse our plat-form on vast scales to misleadtheir own citizenry,” SophieZhang, the employee, wrote in a

6,600-word post shared with theentire company on her final dayon the job.

As countries like Russia, Chinaand Iran have continued sophis-ticated disinformation operations,Ms. Zhang’s post has drawn atten-tion to smaller countries that runcheap and easy bot networks to in-fluence their citizens.

In one example, bots promotedthe president of Honduras. In an-other, they attacked oppositionfigures in Azerbaijan.

Facebook’s failure to root outthe bots, or automated accounts,operating on behalf of political fig-ures raises questions for how ef-fectively the company can police aplatform used by more than 2.7billion people.

Ms. Zhang was fired in Augustand left the company in early Sep-tember.

In her post, she speculated that

part of the reason she lost her jobat Facebook was because she ne-glected the routine duties of herwork to focus on the political ac-tivity by the false accounts.

In response to Ms. Zhang’s post,Facebook said the company regu-larly removed coordinated influ-ence campaigns and had a largeteam working on security.

“Working against coordinatedinauthentic behavior is our pri-ority, but we’re also addressingthe problems of spam and fake en-gagement. We investigate each is-sue carefully, including those thatMs. Zhang raises, before we takeaction or go out and make claimspublicly as a company,” said LizBourgeois, a Facebook spokes-woman.

The company would not com-ment on why Ms. Zhang was fired.

BuzzFeed News reported aboutthe post earlier on Monday.

Ms. Zhang’s post details howshe chanced upon the politicallymotivated activity by the bots. Itwas outside the scope of her du-ties at Facebook, she wrote, butshe decided to take action and try

to draw attention to the problem.“I found and took down attacks

of this sort worldwide — fromSouth Korea to India, from Af-ghanistan to Mexico, from Brazilto Taiwan, and countless other na-tions,” wrote Ms. Zhang, who de-clined to answer questions fromThe New York Times about whatshe wrote. “I have personally

made decisions that affected na-tional presidents withoutoversight, and taken action to en-force against so many prominentpoliticians globally that I’ve lostcount.”

Though she briefed Facebookexecutives, including a vice presi-dent and members of the policyteam, the company continued todrag its feet on taking actionagainst the bots, Ms. Zhang wrote.

She added that she was consid-ered a low-level employee andwas given neither support norguidance on how to deal with thefake accounts. Instead, she wrote,she faced stonewalling and delayslargely from Facebook’s policyand legal teams.

A network that included falseaccounts bolstering the Honduranpresident, Juan OrlandoHernández, was discovered byMs. Zhang in 2019, but it took

Facebook more than nine monthsto act, Ms. Zhang wrote. Twoweeks after Facebook removedthe accounts, many returned.

Facebook was just playing“whack-a-mole” with the false ac-counts, she wrote. On her last dayat the company, she searched andfound current activity from the ac-counts, she added.

Ms. Zhang discovered that thegoverning political party in Azer-baijan was also using false ac-counts to harass opposition fig-ures. She flagged the activitymore than a year ago, she said, butFacebook’s investigation remainsopen and officials have not yet tak-en action over the accounts.

Facebook was “largely motivat-ed by PR,” wrote Ms. Zhang, whoadded that “the civic aspect wasdiscounted because of its smallvolume, its disproportionate im-pact ignored.”

Facebook Is Failing in Disinformation Fight, Ex-Employee SaysBy SHEERA FRENKEL

Accusations aboutabusive fake accountsand a slow response.

Roughly every seven years,companies release a fresh seriesof consoles with technological im-provements — in this case, thePlayStation 5 and the Xbox SeriesX. Although they aren’t expectedto be drastic departures from pre-vious versions, there’s still plentyof hype for the holiday releases.

Gaming has become one of thebiggest global entertainment in-

dustries, with 2.7 billion peopleprojected to play a game this year,according to the gaming marketresearcher Newzoo. Growth hasaccelerated during the pandemic,and gamers worldwide are ex-pected to spend nearly $160 billionthis year.

“This launch is a massive mo-ment,” said David Gibson, thechief investment officer at AstrisAdvisory, a financial advisoryfirm in Tokyo. “It is the largest andmost important next-generationconsole launch ever.”

But Mr. Gibson said temporaryfactory shutdowns caused by thevirus in several Asian countries,

coupled with an increased world-wide demand for similar hard-ware components because of therise in remote work, would mostlikely lead to a scarcity of Xboxesand PlayStations come Novem-ber.

“It’s going to be really hard tofind them,” he said.

The rectangular, black Xbox Se-ries X will be released on Nov. 10for $499, Microsoft announcedlast week after months of specula-tion. The company also said itwould release a miniature budgetversion, the Series S, for $299.

Sony has yet to announce a dateor price for the PlayStation 5, amore curved, futuristic-lookingwhite device, but said it, too,would release an alternative ver-sion.

Both consoles will have fasterloading times for games and bet-ter graphics than their predeces-sors, though the Series X is antici-pated to have slightly more pow-erful hardware.

Even with the supply limita-tions, Mr. Gibson expects Sony tosell about five million PlaySta-tions and Microsoft three millionXboxes in the first five months.Game developers do not have thesame hardware limitations,though, and are likely to benefitfrom the high console demand, hesaid.

Jacob Throop, a streamer forthe professional e-sports organi-

zation Team SoloMid, said heplayed on consoles from bothcompanies, as well as on Ninten-do’s three-year-old Switch, andwould buy both new devices. Hesaid most of his fans seemed to fa-vor the new Xbox.

“I think the Xbox will be better,”said Mr. Throop, better known tohis one million Twitch followers asChocoTaco. “On paper the specsare better, so it looks like it will bea more powerful machine.”

Many analysts, though, expectSony to continue its historicalsales advantage in large part be-cause of the perception that thePlayStation offers superiorgames. And in August, theproducers of Halo Infinite, thenewest version of Xbox’s flagshipgame series, announced that thepandemic had delayed its releaseuntil 2021, rather than release itwith the Series X.

“Having Halo at our launchwould have been tremendous,”said Cindy Walker, an Xboxspokeswoman. But “we are not re-liant on massive exclusive titles todrive console adoption. Our play-ers will have thousands of gamesfrom four generations of Xbox

available to play on launch day.”Sony, which declined to com-

ment on its coming release, hasproduced the three best-selling in-dividual home consoles — thePlayStation 2, PlayStation 4 andoriginal 1994 PlayStation — and isfocusing on the strength of its ex-clusive games and brand recogni-tion while promoting the PlaySta-tion 5.

But Microsoft is signaling for

the first time that it wants an endto the decades-long console war,or at least a truce.

Microsoft is putting a priorityon flexibility and betting that thefuture of gaming will be mobile,with gamers spread across con-soles, computers and even phoneswhile on the go.

The release of the Series X isstill a big moment for the com-pany, but Microsoft is also high-lighting the success of Xbox GamePass — think a Netflix library forgames — and a new feature,xCloud, which will allow users toplay Xbox games on Androidphones for $15 per month, startingTuesday.

“Sony is focused on convincinggamers they need to get a Play-Station 5,” said Matthew Ball, themanaging partner at Epyllion In-dustries, which operates a ven-ture capital fund.

He added, “Microsoft is tellingcustomers they can get a Series X,or a lower-cost Series S, or keepyour old Xbox, or use your PC, mo-bile phone or tablet — and we’restill there for you.”

Rival companies are also sens-ing an opportunity to break intothe growing market, and are ex-perimenting with cloud gaming, anew technology that theoreticallyallows players to download andrun games on any device using thestrength of the internet — orcloud. The nascent feature coulddevalue expensive consoles, espe-cially at 5G internet speeds.

Google Stadia, a $10-a-monthcloud service that lets subscribersplay games across devices, ar-rived in November but has strug-gled with bugs and graphics prob-

lems. Amazon has been said to beworking on its own cloud gamingservice, Project Tempo.

Microsoft’s response to theseincursions is xCloud.

“We’re committed to bringingmore games to more gamersaround the world, and cloud gam-ing is a long-term investment forMicrosoft and critical to makingthis commitment real,” Ms.Walker said.

Sony’s cloud service, PlaySta-tion Now, was introduced in 2014and lets subscribers play somePlayStation games on computers,but users haven’t been enamoredwith the feature, especially beforeSony slashed the monthly chargein half to $10 last year.

Analysts said Sony’s more tra-ditional thinking as the PlaySta-tion 5’s arrival approached couldpay off in the short term.

“Sony has tremendous strengthfollowing the eighth generation ofconsoles and will thrive in theninth, but it is still applying the oldplaybook,” Mr. Ball said.

Despite technological develop-ments that make it easier forgamers to play on the go, or towatch others stream their play onsites like Amazon-owned Twitch,Sony and Microsoft have spentmonths building suspense.

Kris Lamberson, known by fansof the FaZe Clan e-sports team asFaZe Swagg, plays Call of Duty onthe PlayStation 4 and said he waslooking forward to both devices’improved graphics.

“With the way technology is ad-vancing, these consoles are goingto take gaming to the next level,”he said.

Video Game Console WarsAre Returning for HolidaysFROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE

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SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT I, VIA REUTERS XBOX

The pandemic is only intensifying anticipation for Sony’s PlayStation 5, above left, and Microsoft’s Xbox Series X,even though the new consoles are unlikely to have drastic changes. Top, a competition in Anaheim, Calif., inFebruary. Gaming is one of the biggest entertainment industries, attracting several billion people worldwide.

A huge — andmuch-hyped —moment for a $160billion industry.

TECHNOLOGY

Notice of Disposition of Collateral Public Auction – UCC Foreclosure Sale

Notice is hereby given that, in accordance with applicable provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code as enacted in New York, Ashford Portfolio Mezz Lender LLC (“Secured Party”) will offer for sale, at public auction, all member and other equity interests in and to Ashford Pool C1 GP LLC, Ashford Buena Vista LP, Ashford Louisville LP, Ashford Ft. Lauderdale Weston I LLC, Ashford Ft. Lauderdale Weston II LLC, Ashford Ft. Lauderdale Weston III LLC and Ashford TRS Pool C1 LLC (collectively, the “Debtor”), which owns and operates the real property located at 2000 N. Commerce Parkway, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 33326; 819 Phillips Lane, Louisville, Kentucky 40209;, and 11420 Marbella Palms Court, Orlando, Florida 32836 (collectively, the “Collateral”). The public auction will be held on September 21, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. (EST), by remote auction via Cisco WebEx Remote Meeting, Meeting link: https: https://bit.ly/TKUCCFLKY, Access Code: 126 857 4914, Password: TKMANUCC (85626822 from phones and video systems), Call-in number: +1-415-655-0001, to the highest qualified bidder; provided, however, that Secured Party reserves the right to cancel the sale in its entirety, or to adjourn the sale to a future date. The sale will be conducted by Mannion Auctions, LLC, Matthew D. Mannion, licensed auctioneer (DCA #1434494).

This sale is being held to enforce Secured Party’s rights in the Collateral as a result of the indebtedness of Debtor to Secured Party, following Debtor’s defaults under the applicable loan documents. The Collateral will be sold together in a single block, and there is no warranty or representations relating to title, possession, quiet enjoyment, merchantability, fitness, or the like in this disposition. Secured Party reserves the right for itself and any assignee to bid (whether by cash and/or crediting some or all of the secured obligations) and to become the purchaser at the sale. Interested parties must contact counsel for Secured Party, c/o Jack Doherty, Esq., at Thompson & Knight, LLP, 900 Third Avenue, 20th Floor, New York, New York 10022, (212) 751-3003, [email protected], in order to obtain a copy of the Terms of Sale and information regarding bidding instructions. Upon execution of a standard confidentiality and non-disclosure agreement, additional documentation and information will be available. Interested parties who do not contact the Secured Party’s Counsel prior to the sale will not be permitted to enter a bid.

None of the Collateral has been registered for sale under any federal or state securities or blue sky laws, and as such may not be sold or otherwise transferred by Secured Party or a purchaser of any Collateral except in accordance with applicable law.

Notice of Hearingwww.osdchi.com

American Service Insurance Company, American Country InsuranceCompany, and Gateway Insurance Company (the “Companies”) haveeach been placed in liquidation by order of the Circuit Court of CookCounty, Illinois, in Case No. 19 CH 7852. The Companies are insolventand the Liquidator has filed a Motion for Substantive Consolidation(“Motion”) with the Court that requests the substantive consolidationof the Companies’ assets and liabilities and a supporting Memorandumof Law. If approved by the Court, the substantive consolidation of theCompanies’ assets and liabilities may affect your interests. A hearing onthe Motion has been scheduled to be heard on October 30, 2020 at 1:00p.m.,by Zoom Video Conference:

https://circuitcourtofcookcounty.zoom.us/j/92896632736?pwd=cS9PaEQyOFFka0Fwdjd3NXgyd253UT09 Meeting ID: 928 9663 2736Password: 813107. If a party is unable to sign on to Zoom witha computer or smartphone, a party may also dial in to the hearing,similar to a conference call. If calling from the Chicagoland area, dial312-626-6799. Then, when prompted, enter the Zoom MeetingID (928 9663 2736), and follow prompts as appropriate. If you arenot calling from the Chicagoland area, please contact Chambers [email protected] or (312) 603-6034 for thedial-in number you are to use to join the hearing.

If you intend to object to the Motion,you must,on or before October 9,2020 both (1) electronically file your written objection or response withthe Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, Chancery Division,Room 802, 50 West Washington Street, Richard J. Daley Center, Chicago,Illinois 60602,and (2) send a copy thereof to Office of the Special DeputyReceiver, either by mail to 222 Merchandise Mart Plaza, Suite 960,Chicago, Illinois 60654 (postmarked by October 9, 2020) or emailed [email protected]. Failure to file and send a written objection on orbefore October 9, 2020 shall constitute a waiver of your right to appearand object in the proceedings with respect to the Motion.You may viewand download for printing a copy of the Motion and Memorandum ofLaw on the Liquidator’s website [www.osdchi.com]. If you do not haveinternet access, you may write to the Liquidator to request a copy atAmerican Service Insurance Company, In Liquidation, c/o Office of theSpecial Deputy Receiver,222 Merchandise Mart Plaza,Suite 960,Chicago,Illinois 60654.Office of the Special Deputy ReceiverClaim,Corporate & Administrative Services Department

EXHIBIT BIN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS, COUNTYDEPARTMENT,CHANCERY DIVISIONIN THE MATTER OF THE OF GATEWAY INSURANCE COMPANY,AMERICAN SERVICE INSURANCE COMPANY, AND AMERICANCOUNTRY INSURANCE COMPANY. CASE NO.19 CH 7852.

Notice is given that Robert H. Muriel, not individually but asLiquidator (the “Liquidator”) of Gateway Insurance Company (“GIC”),American Service Insurance Company (“ASIC), and American CountryInsurance Company (“ACIC) has filed a Motion for SubstantiveConsolidation (the “Motion”) and a Memorandum of Law in SupportThereof (the “Memorandum”), asking this Court to substantivelyconsolidate the estates of GIC,ASIC,and ACIC.

If granted, the Motion may affect your interests. The Motion, theMemorandum, and additional information have been published athttps://www.osdchi.com/. Objections or responses to the Motion, ifany,must be filed electronically with the Clerk of the Circuit Court of CookCounty,Illinois,Chancery Division,Room 802,50WestWashington Street,Richard J.Daley Center, Chicago, Illinois 60602, and electronically servedon the Liquidator,on or before October 9,2020.A Zoom video conferencehearing on the Motion will be held on October 30, 2020 at1:00 p.m.,at which time parties that timely-filed and served an objection may beheard pursuant to participation instructions to follow.

THE REPUBLIC OF ARGENTINA

ANNOUNCES EXECUTION OF

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

Buenos Aires, Argentina: On September 4,

2020, the Republic of Argentina entered into

the third supplemental indenture to its

indenture dated June 2, 2005 and the second

supplemental indenture to its indenture dated

April 22, 2016, giving effect to the

modifications proposed in its invitation of

April 21, 2020, as most recently amended and

restated on August 17, 2020, and substituting

any remaining bonds of the series listed in the

next sentence for new bonds issued by the

Republic. The supplemental indentures affect

the following series of bonds: USD Discounts

due 2033 (ISIN No. US040114GL81), USD

Discounts due 2033 (ISIN No.

XS0501194756), USD Discounts due 2033

(ISIN No. XS0501195050), Euro Discounts

due 2033 (ISIN No. XS0205545840), Euro

Discounts due 2033 (ISIN No.

XS0501195134), Euro Discounts due 2033

(ISIN No. XS0501195308), USD Pars due

2038 (ISIN No. US040114GK09), Euro Pars

due 2038 (ISIN No. XS0205537581), USD

6.875% Bonds due 2021 (ISIN Nos.

US040114GW47 and USP04808AA23), USD

5.625% Bonds due 2022 (ISIN Nos.

US040114HK99 and USP04808AL87), USD

4.625% Bonds due 2023 (ISIN No.

US040114HP86), Euro 3.875% Bonds due

2022 (ISIN No. XS1503160225), Euro 3.375%

Bonds due 2023 (ISIN No. XS1715303340),

Swiss Franc-denominated 3.375% Bonds due

2020 (ISIN No. CH0361824458), USD

7.500% Bonds due 2026 (ISIN Nos.

US040114GX20, USP04808AC88 and

US040114GS35), USD 6.875% Bonds due

2027 (ISIN Nos. US040114HL72 and

USP04808AM60), USD 5.875% Bonds due

2028 (ISIN No.US040114HQ69), USD

6.625% Bonds due 2028 (ISIN Nos.

US040114HF05 and USP04808AJ32), USD

7.125% Bonds due 2036 (ISIN Nos.

US040114HG87, USP04808AK05 and

US040114HE30), Euro 5.000% Bonds due

2027 (ISIN No. XS1503160498), Euro 5.250%

Bonds due 2028 (ISIN No. XS1715303779),

USD 7.625% Bonds due 2046 (ISIN Nos.

US040114GY03, USP04808AE45 and

US040114GU80), USD 6.875% Bonds due

2048 (ISIN No. US040114HR43), USD

7.125% Bonds due 2117 (ISIN Nos.

USP04808AN44, US040114HM55 and

US040114HN39) and Euro 6.250% Bonds due

2047 (ISIN No. XS1715535123). More

information, and any further notifications with

regards to this invitation, will be available at:

https://sites.dfkingltd.com/argentina.

UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURTEASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA, RICHMOND DIVISION

In reCHINOS HOLDINGS, INC., et al.,

Reorganized Debtors.

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Chapter 11Case No. 20–32181 (KLP)(Jointly Administered)

NOTICE OF (I) ENTRY OF ORDER CONFIRMING THEAMENDED JOINT PREARRANGED CHAPTER 11

PLAN OF REORGANIZATION AND (II) OCCURRENCEOF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE PLAN

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE

1. Confirmation of the Plan. On August 26, 2020, the UnitedStates Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, RichmondDivision (the “Bankruptcy Court”) entered an order (Docket No. 880)(the “Confirmation Order”) confirming the Second Amended JointPrearranged Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization of Chinos Holdings, Inc.and Its Affiliated Debtors (with Technical Changes) (Docket No. 861) (asmodified and amended in accordance with the with the terms of theConfirmation Order, the “Plan”). Copies of the Confirmation Order, thePlan and all documents filed in these chapter 11 cases are available freeof charge by visiting https://www.omniagentsolutions.com/chinos.You may also obtain copies of the pleadings by visiting the BankruptcyCourt’s website at https://www.vaeb.uscourts.gov/ in accordance withthe procedures and fees set forth therein.

2. Effective Date. The Effective Date of the Plan occurred onSeptember 10, 2020 and, as a result, the Plan has been substantiallyconsummated.

3. Administrative Expense Bar Date. Except as otherwiseprovided in Section 2.1 of the Plan and except with respect toProfessional Fee Claims, requests for payment of AdministrativeExpense Claims must be filed and served on the Debtors or ReorganizedDebtors no later than 60 days after the Effective Date, which isNovember 9,2020.

HOLDERS OF ADMINISTRATATIVE EXPENSE CLAIMS THAT AREREQUIRED TO FILE AND SERVE A REQUEST FOR PAYMENT AND THATDO NOT TIMELY FILE AND SERVE SUCH A REQUEST SHALL BE FOREVERBARRED FROM ASSERTING SUCH ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSE CLAIMSAGAINST THE DEBTORS, THE REORGANIZED DEBTORS, OR THEIRRESPECTIVE PROPERTY, AND SUCH ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSE CLAIMSSHALL BE FOREVER BARRED,ESTOPPED,AND ENJOINED FROM ASSERTINGSUCH ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSE CLAIMS.

4. Professional Fee Claims. All final requests for Professional FeeClaims shall be filed no later than 60 days after the Effective Date,whichis November 9,2020.

5. Rejection Damages Claims. Unless others provided by anorder of the Bankruptcy Court,any proofs of claim based on the rejectionof an Executory Contract or Unexpired Lease pursuant to the Plan orotherwise must be filed with the Bankruptcy Court and served on theReorganized Debtors and the Class 6-B GUC Trustee no later than 30 daysafter the later of the Effective Date, which is October 10, 2020, or theeffective date of the rejection of such Executory Contract or UnexpiredLease.

6. Binding Effect. The Plan and the provisions thereof are bindingon every holder of a claim or interest against or in any of the Debtors,regardless of whether the claim or interest of such holder is impairedunder the Plan and regardless of whether such holder accepted the Plan.

DIGITAL REALTY TRUST, INC.

NOTICE OF REDEMPTION

TO THE HOLDERS OF

5.875% SERIES G CUMULATIVE REDEEMABLE PREFERRED STOCK

CUSIP NUMBER 253868 889

September 15, 2020

Notice is hereby given that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (the “Company”) will redeem on October 15, 2020 (the “Redemption Date”) 10,000,000 shares (the “Shares”) of its 5.875% Series G Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (par value $0.01 per share) (the “Series G Preferred Stock”), such Shares constituting all of the outstanding shares of Series G Preferred Stock, at a redemption price of $25.00 per share, plus all accrued and unpaid dividends on such Shares up to but not including the Redemption Date, in an amount equal to $0.057118 per share, for a total payment of $25.057118 per share (the “Redemption

Price”). This redemption is made at the option of the Company pursuant to Section 5 of the Articles Supplementary establishing and fixing the rights and preferences of the Series G Preferred Stock. Series G Preferred Stock held through the Depository Trust Company will be redeemed in accordance with the applicable procedures of the Depository Trust Company.

Dividends on the Shares shall cease to accrue on the Redemption Date. On and after the Redemption Date, the only remaining rights of the holders of the Shares will be to receive payment of the Redemption Price.

IN ORDER TO RECEIVE THE REDEMPTION PRICE, CERTIFICATES REPRESENTING THE SHARES CALLED FOR REDEMPTION

MUST BE PRESENTED AND SURRENDERED FOR PAYMENT TO AMERICAN STOCK TRANSFER & TRUST COMPANY, LLC (THE

“REDEMPTION AGENT”) AT THE LOCATION LISTED BELOW, DURING THE REDEMPTION AGENT’S USUAL BUSINESS HOURS:

By Mail or Overnight:

American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC Operations Center Attention: Reorganization Department 6201 15th Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11219

The method of delivery is at the option and risk of the holder; however, transmission by registered mail, properly insured, is suggested as a precaution against loss.On or before the Redemption Date, all funds necessary for payment of the Redemption Price will have been irrevocably set aside by the Company, separate and apart from other funds, in trust for the benefit of the holders of the Shares.

Questions and requests for assistance may be directed to the Redemption Agent at (800) 937-5449.

If your certificates have been either lost or destroyed, please notify the Redemption Agent promptly. You will then be instructed as to the steps you must take to receive payment.

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In a written statement, Amazon dis-missed the study as “flawed research”that relied on “the meaningless measureof ‘sentiment about company actions’and fails to evaluate the actual response— which in the case of Amazon was pro-active, swift and effective.”

The company said it had investedmore than $800 million in safety im-provements, outfitting workers withmasks, hand sanitizers and other pro-tective gear, while preventing thespread of the virus at its facilities.

The study does not assess the extentto which signatories have continued topay dividends to shareholders while lay-ing off workers. But some did just that.

Arne M. Sorenson, president andchief executive of Marriott Interna-tional, the world’s largest hotel chain, isco-chairman of a Business Roundtabletask force assembled to addressCovid-19. In March, he announced thathe was furloughing tens of thousands ofemployees, asserting that his hand hadbeen forced by the swift deterioration ofthe business. Less than two weeks later,Marriott paid out $160 million in divi-dends to shareholders.

Marriott lands in the bottom half ofcompanies in its response to the pan-demic and demands for racial inclusiv-ity, according to the study.

A Marriott spokeswoman, ConnieKim, noted that Marriott suspended fur-ther dividend payments.

The report highlights examples ofBusiness Roundtable signatories that

have performed better than most, in-cluding Baxter International Inc., an Il-linois-based manufacturer of medicaldevices; SAP, a German software firm;and Willis Towers Watson PLC, a Britishinsurance company. All three havemade progress on racial inclusivity, thestudy finds.

The report praises BlackRock, theworld’s largest asset management com-pany, for taking early action to alleviatethe threat of Covid-19. The company do-nated $50 million for emergency serv-

ices, including the delivery of vital medi-cal equipment to hospitals. It notes theleading role played by BlackRock’s chiefexecutive, Laurence Fink, in steering in-vestments toward companies that limitclimate change.

No one has embraced the tenets ofstakeholder capitalism more ferventlythan Mr. Benioff.

From its founding in 1999, Salesforce— which makes software used by com-panies to track interactions with theircustomers — has donated 1 percent of its

equity, 1 percent of its products and 1percent of its employees’ time to a rangeof philanthropic undertakings.

Salesforce workers volunteer at shel-ters for the homeless and nonprofit or-ganizations that aid refugees. A com-pany foundation has directed hundredsof millions of dollars to local schools andhospitals. During the worst of the pan-demic in the United States, Mr. Beniofftapped contacts in China to procuremore than 50 million pieces of protectivegear.

“There are very few examples of com-panies doing this at scale,” Mr. Benioffsaid in a telephone interview.

With more than 54,000 employeesworldwide, Salesforce has provided Mr.Benioff a huge platform to advance thetenets of stakeholder capitalism. Over-all, the company has performed far bet-ter than most in responding to the pan-demic and the drive for racial justice, thestudy finds.

Its principles are not undermined, Mr.Benioff says, by his company’s decisionto phase out 1,000 workers the day aftercelebrating a tremendous earnings re-port and shortly after the expiration of awidely touted 90-day pledge to avoidlayoffs.

Salesforce is continuing to hire inother parts of its business, he said. Someof the affected employees will be rehiredin other areas, while those who departwill leave with severance.

He described the objectives of theBusiness Roundtable statement as along-term project.

Reality undercuts corporate pledgesPROFITS, FROM PAGE 6

Marc Benioff, chief executive of the technology giant Salesforce, said the company’sprinciples were not undermined by the loss of 1,000 jobs.

MATT EDGE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

financial results from renewables weredisappointing and the company eventu-ally dropped its moniker “Beyond Petro-leum.”

In an interview, Mr. Browne said thistime would be different. “There aremany more voices now,” he said, addingthat the Paris agreement was a water-shed, the economics of renewables haveimproved and investor pressure wasbuilding.

This month BP and Equinor an-nounced a partnership to build and op-erate wind projects along the coasts ofNew York and Massachusetts. The gov-ernors of those states want to reducetheir reliance on natural gas, which thiseffort will aid.

American oil executives say it wouldbe folly for them to switch to renew-ables, arguing that it is a low-profit busi-ness that utilities and alternative ener-gy companies can pursue more effec-tively. They say it is only a matter of timebefore oil and gas prices recover as thepandemic recedes.

For now, Exxon and Chevron aresticking to what they know best, shaledrilling in the Permian Basin of Texasand New Mexico, deepwater offshoreproduction and trading natural gas. Infact, Chevron is acquiring a smaller oilcompany, Noble Energy, to increase itsreserves.

“Our strategy is not to follow the Eu-ropeans,” said Daniel Droog, Chevron’svice president for energy transition.“Our strategy is to decarbonize our ex-isting assets in the most cost-effectiveway and consistently bring in new tech-nology and new forms of energy. Butwe’re not asking our investors to sacri-fice return or go forward with three dec-ades of uncertainty on dividends.”

Chevron says it is increasing its ownuse of renewable energy to power its op-erations. It also says it is reducing emis-sions of methane, a powerful green-house gas. And the company has in-vested more than $1.1 billion in variousprojects to capture and sequester car-bon so it isn’t released into the atmos-phere.

Its venture capital arm, ChevronTechnology Ventures, is investing innew-energy start-ups like Zap Energy,which is developing modular fusion nu-clear reactors that release no green-house gases and limit radioactive waste.Another, Carbon Engineering, removescarbon dioxide from the atmosphere toconvert into fuel.

All told, Chevron Technology Ven-tures has two funds with a total of $200million, about 1 percent of the compa-ny’s capital and exploration budget lastyear. The company has a separate $100million fund to support a $1 billion in-vestment consortium that aims to re-duce emissions across the oil and gas in-dustry.

“We need breakthrough technology,and my job is to go find it,” said BarbaraBurger, president of Chevron Technol-ogy Ventures, which employs 60 ofChevron’s 44,000 employees. “The tran-sition is not an 11:59-on-Tuesday event.It’s going to be gradual, and evolvingand continual over decades.”

Exxon has also largely steered awayfrom renewables and has instead in-vested in roughly one-third of theworld’s limited carbon-capture capacity,which has been so expensive and ener-gy intensive that few companies havebeen willing to underwrite large-scaleprojects.

It spends about $1 billion a year on re-search and development, much of whichgoes to developing new energy tech-nologies and efficiency improvementsthat reduce emissions.

One project involves directing carbonemitted from industrial operations intoa fuel cell that can generate power. Thatshould reduce emissions while increas-ing energy production.

In a separate experiment, Exxon re-cently announced a “big advance” withscientists at the University of California,Berkeley, and the Lawrence BerkeleyNational Laboratory for developing ma-terials that help capture carbon dioxidefrom natural-gas power plants with lessheating and cooling than previous meth-ods.

The company is also working onstrains of algae whose oils can producebiofuel for trucks and airplanes. Theplants also absorb carbon through pho-tosynthesis, which Exxon scientists aretrying to speed up while producing moreoil.

Research into fusion, algae and car-bon capture has been going on for dec-ades, and many climate experts saythose technologies could take decadesmore to commercialize. That’s whymany scholars and environmentalistsfeel the American oil companies are notserious about tackling climate change.

“Oil companies don’t do things thatput themselves out of business,” saidDavid Keith, a Harvard professor of ap-plied physics who founded Carbon Engi-neering. “That is not the way the worldworks.”

But some energy analysts argue thatthe American oil companies are rightnot to rush to change their businesses.They argue that U.S. lawmakers havesimply not given them enough incen-tives to make a radical break.

“If this is the sunset time for oil andgas, someone forgot to tell consumers,”said Raoul LeBlanc, a vice president atIHS Markit, a research and consultingfirm. He said while sales of electric carsmay have picked up, it will take decadesto replace the more than a billion inter-nal-combustion cars on the road now.

It will probably take just as long, if notlonger, to replace the large fleets oftrucks, airplanes and ships that run onfossil fuels. There ought to be enoughdemand for oil over the next 30 to 40years for Exxon and Chevron to exploittheir reserves and make money, thoughthe profits will decline over time, saidDieter Helm, an Oxford economist whostudies energy policy.

Moving fast or slowin energy transitionOIL, FROM PAGE 6

“We’re not asking our investorsto sacrifice return or go forwardwith three decades of uncertaintyon dividends.”

Last month, Facebook said it was crack-ing down on activity tied to QAnon, avast conspiracy theory that falselyclaims that a satanic cabal runs theworld, and other potentially violent ex-tremist movements.

Since then, a militia movement onFacebook that called for armed conflicton the streets of U.S. cities has gainedthousands of new followers. A QAnonFacebook group has also added hun-dreds of new followers while question-ing common-sense pandemic medicalpractices, like wearing a mask in publicand staying at home while sick. And acampaign that claimed to raise aware-ness of human trafficking has steeredhundreds of thousands of people to con-spiracy theory groups and pages on thesocial network.

Perhaps the most jarring part? Attimes, Facebook’s own recommendationengine — the algorithm that surfacescontent for people on the site — haspushed users toward the very groupsthat were discussing QAnon conspira-cies, according to research conductedby The New York Times, despite assur-ances from the company that that wouldnot happen.

None of this was supposed to takeplace under new Facebook rules target-ing QAnon and other extremist move-ments. The Silicon Valley company’s in-ability to quash extremist content, de-spite frequent flags from concerned us-ers, is now renewing questions aboutthe limits of its policing and whether it

will be locked in an endless fight withQAnon and other groups that see it as akey battleground in their online war.

The stakes are high ahead of the Nov.3 election. QAnon groups, which havecast President Trump as the hero intheir baseless conspiracy, have spreadand amplified misinformation sur-rounding the election. Among otherthings, they have shared false rumorsthat widespread voter fraud is alreadytaking place and have raised questionsabout the competency of the PostalService with mail-in ballots.

“In allowing QAnon groups to get tothis point and continue to grow, Face-book has created a huge problem forthemselves and for society in a moregeneral sense,” said Travis View, a hostof QAnon Anonymous, a podcast thatseeks to explain the movement.

The QAnon movement has proved ex-tremely adept at evading detection onFacebook under the platform’s new re-strictions. Some groups have simplychanged their names or avoided keyterms that would set off alarm bells. Thechanges were subtle, like changing “Q”to “Cue” or to a name including the num-ber 17, reflecting that Q is the 17th letterof the alphabet. Militia groups havechanged their names to phrases fromthe Bible, or to claims of being “God’sArmy.”

Others simply tweaked what theywrote to make it more palatable to theaverage person. Facebook communitiesthat had otherwise remained insulatedfrom the conspiracy theory, like yogagroups or parenting circles, were sud-denly filled with QAnon content dis-guised as health and wellness advice orconcern about child trafficking.

A Facebook spokeswoman said thecompany was continuing to evaluate itsbest practices. “Our specialists areworking with external experts on waysto disrupt activity designed to evade ourenforcement,” the spokeswoman said.

Facebook and other social media

companies began taking action againstthe extremist groups this summer,prompted by the rapid growth in QAnonand real-world violence linked to thegroup and militia-style movements onsocial media.

Twitter acted first. On July 21, Twitterannounced that it was removing thou-sands of QAnon accounts and was block-ing trends and key phrases related tothe movement from appearing in itssearch and Trending Topics section. Butmany of the QAnon accounts on Twitterreturned within weeks of the initial ban,according to researchers who study theplatform.

In a statement on Thursday, Twittersaid that impressions, or views, ofQAnon content had dropped by 50 per-cent since it had rolled out its restric-tions.

Then on Aug. 19, Facebook followed.The social network said it was removing790 QAnon groups from its site and wasintroducing new rules to clamp down onmovements that discuss “potential vio-lence.” The effect would be to restrictgroups, pages and accounts belongingto extremist groups, in the company’smost sweeping action against QAnonand other such groups that had usedFacebook to call for violence.

About 100 QAnon groups on Facebooktracked by The Times in the month sincethe rules were instituted continued togrow at a combined pace of over 13,600new followers a week, according to ananalysis of data from CrowdTangle, aFacebook-owned analytics platform.

That was down from the period beforethe new restrictions, when the samegroups added between 15,000 and25,000 new members a week.

Even so, it indicated that QAnon was

still recruiting new followers.Members of those groups were also

more active than before. Comments,likes and posts within the QAnon groupsgrew to over 600,000 a week after Face-book’s rules went into effect, accordingto CrowdTangle data. Previous weekshad seen an average of less than 530,000interactions a week. “The groups, in-cluding QAnon, feel incredibly passion-ate about their cause and will do what-ever they can do attract new people totheir conspiracy movement. Mean-while, Facebook has nowhere near thesame type of urgency or mandate to con-tain them,” Mr. View said. “Facebook isoperating with constraints and these ex-tremist movements are not.”

Researchers who study QAnon saidthe movement’s continued growth waspartly related to Facebook’s recommen-dation engine, which encourages peopleto join groups and pages related to theconspiracy theory.

Marc-André Argentino, a Ph.D. candi-date at Concordia University in Montre-al, Quebec, who is studying QAnon, saidhe had identified 51 Facebook groupsthat branded themselves as anti-childtrafficking organizations, but whichwere actually predominantly sharingQAnon conspiracies. Many of thegroups, which were formed at the startof 2020, spiked in growth in the weeksafter Facebook and Twitter began en-forcing new bans on QAnon.

The groups previously added dozensto hundreds of new members eachweek. Following the bans, they at-tracted tens of thousands of new mem-bers weekly, according to data pub-lished by Mr. Argentino. Facebook saidit was studying the groups, but has nottaken action on them.

QAnon followers protesting an order by the governor of Massachusetts for mandatory influenza vaccinations for all students under the age of 30.BRIAN SNYDER/REUTERS

Facebook fails to limit QAnon

Sheera Frenkel reported from Oakland,Calif., and Tiffany Hsu from Hoboken,N.J. Davey Alba contributed reportingfrom New York and Ben Decker fromBoston.

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Its own recommendation enginepushed users toward QAnon.

UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURTEASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA, RICHMOND DIVISION

In reCHINOS HOLDINGS, INC., et al., Reorganized Debtors.

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Chapter 11Case No. 20–32181 (KLP) (Jointly Administered)

NOTICE OF (I) ENTRY OF ORDER CONFIRMING THE AMENDED JOINT PREARRANGED CHAPTER 11 PLAN

OF REORGANIZATION AND (II) OCCURRENCE OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE PLAN

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE

1. Confirmation of the Plan. On August 26, 2020, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division (the “Bankruptcy Court”) entered an order (Docket No. 880) (the “Confirmation Order”) confirming the Second Amended Joint Prearranged Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization of Chinos Holdings, Inc. and Its Affiliated Debtors (with Technical Changes) (Docket No. 861) (as modified and amended in accordance with the with the terms of the Confirmation Order, the “Plan”). Copies of the Confirmation Order, the Plan and all documents filed in these chapter 11 cases are available free of charge by visiting https://www.omniagentsolutions.com/chinos. You may also obtain copies of the pleadings by visiting the Bankruptcy Court’s website at https://www.vaeb.uscourts.gov/ in accordance with the procedures and fees set forth therein.

2. Effective Date. The Effective Date of the Plan occurred on September 10, 2020 and, as a result, the Plan has been substantially consummated.

3. Administrative Expense Bar Date. Except as otherwise provided in Section 2.1 of the Plan and except with respect to Professional Fee Claims, requests for payment of Administrative Expense Claims must be filed and served on the Debtors or Reorganized Debtors no later than 60 days after the Effective Date, which is November 9, 2020.

HOLDERS OF ADMINISTRATATIVE EXPENSE CLAIMS THAT ARE REQUIRED TO FILE AND SERVE A REQUEST FOR PAYMENT AND THAT DO NOT TIMELY FILE AND SERVE SUCH A REQUEST SHALL BE FOREVER BARRED FROM ASSERTING SUCH ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSE CLAIMS AGAINST THE DEBTORS, THE REORGANIZED DEBTORS, OR THEIR RESPECTIVE PROPERTY, AND SUCH ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSE CLAIMS SHALL BE FOREVER BARRED, ESTOPPED, AND ENJOINED FROM ASSERTING SUCH ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSE CLAIMS.

4. Professional Fee Claims. All final requests for Professional Fee Claims shall be filed no later than 60 days after the Effective Date, which is November 9, 2020.

5. Rejection Damages Claims. Unless others provided by an order of the Bankruptcy Court, any proofs of claim based on the rejection of an Executory Contract or Unexpired Lease pursuant to the Plan or otherwise must be filed with the Bankruptcy Court and served on the Reorganized Debtors and the Class 6-B GUC Trustee no later than 30 days after the later of the Effective Date, which is October 10, 2020, or the effective date of the rejection of such Executory Contract or Unexpired Lease.

6. Binding Effect. The Plan and the provisions thereof are binding on every holder of a claim or interest against or in any of the Debtors, regardless of whether the claim or interest of such holder is impaired under the Plan and regardless of whether such holder accepted the Plan.

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UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURTSOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK

In reNEW COTAI HOLDINGS, LLC, et al., Debtors.1

Chapter 11Case No. 19-22911 (RDD)(Jointly Administered)

NOTICE OF (I) ENTRY OF CONFIRMATION ORDER AND (II) OCCURRENCE OF EFFECTIVE DATE

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on August 27, 2020, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (the “Bankruptcy Court”), entered an order [Docket No. 510] (the “Confirmation Order”) confirming the Amended Joint Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization of New Cotai Holdings, LLC, et al. [Docket No. 485] (as may be modified, supplemented, restated, and further amended from time to time, the “Plan”) (attached as Exhibit 1 to the Confirmation Order).2

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that all conditions precedent to the Effective Date of the Plan set forth in section 10.2 of the Plan have been satisfied (or waived as provided in section 10.3 of the Plan), such that the Plan was substantially consummated, and the Effective Date occurred, on September 10, 2020. For the avoidance of doubt, the condition precedent set forth in section 10.2(e) of the Plan has been satisfied.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that pursuant to the Confirmation Order, the settlement, release, injunction, and exculpation provisions in Article IX of the Plan are now in full force and effect.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that pursuant to section 6.2 of the Plan, all Proofs of Claim with respect to Claims arising from the rejection of Executory Contracts or Unexpired Leases, if any, must be filed with the Bankruptcy Court within twenty one (21) days after the date of entry of an order of the Bankruptcy Court (including the Confirmation Order) approving such rejection. Any Claims arising from the rejection of an Executory Contract or Unexpired Lease not filed with the Bankruptcy Court within such time will be automatically Disallowed, forever barred from assertion, and shall not be enforceable against the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors, the Estates, or their property without the need for any objection by the Reorganized Debtors or further notice to, or action, order or approval of the Bankruptcy Court. Claims arising from the rejection of the Debtors’ Executory Contracts or Unexpired Leases shall be classified as General Unsecured Claims.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that except as otherwise provided by the Confirmation Order, the Plan, or a Final Order of the Court, the deadline for filing requests for payment of unpaid Administrative Claims is October 12, 2020 (i.e., 30 days after the Effective Date).

HOLDERS OF ADMINISTRATIVE CLAIMS THAT ARE REQUIRED TO, BUT DO NOT, FILE AND SERVE A REQUEST FOR PAYMENT OF SUCH ADMINISTRATIVE CLAIMS BY THE ADMINISTRATIVE CLAIMS BAR DATE SHALL BE FOREVER BARRED, ESTOPPED, AND ENJOINED

FROM ASSERTING SUCH ADMINISTRATIVE CLAIMS AGAINST THE DEBTORS, THE REORGANIZED DEBTORS, OR THEIR RESPECTIVE PROPERTY AND ASSETS AND SUCH ADMINISTRATIVE CLAIMS SHALL BE DEEMED DISCHARGED AS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that pursuant to section 2.3 of the Plan, the deadline to file final requests for payment of Fee Claims is October 26, 2020 (i.e., 45 days after the Effective Date). All Professionals must file final requests for payment of Fee Claims by no later than this date to receive final approval of the fees and expenses generated during the Chapter 11 Cases.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the Plan and its provisions are binding on the Debtors, the Reorganized Debtors, any and all Holders of Claims or Interests (irrespective of whether such Holders of Claims or Interests are deemed to have accepted the Plan), all Entities that are parties to or subject to the settlements, compromises, releases, and injunctions described in the Plan, each Entity acquiring property under the Plan, and any and all non-Debtor parties to Executory Contracts and Unexpired Leases with the Debtors.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the Plan and the Confirmation Order contain other provisions that may affect your rights. You are encouraged to review the Plan and the Confirmation Order in their entirety.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that after the Effective Date, any pleading, notice or other document required by the Plan to be served or delivered to the Debtors or the Reorganized Debtors shall be served as follows: New Cotai, LLC, c/o Willow Tree Consulting Group, LLC, 2700 Patriot Boulevard, Suite 250, Glenview, Illinois 60026, Attention: Carl Lane, E-mail: [email protected] -and - Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, One Bryant Park, New York, New York 10036, Attention: Daniel G. Walsh, E-mail: [email protected].

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that copies of the Confirmation Order, the Plan, and all other documents filed in these chapter 11 cases are available free of charge by visiting https://cases.primeclerk.com/newcotai or by calling the Debtors’ restructuring hotline at (844) 627-7471. You may also obtain copies of any pleadings filed in these chapter 11 cases for a fee via PACER at: http://www.nysb.uscourts.gov.

Dated: New York, New York, September 10, 2020

SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER & FLOM LLP, /s/ Mark A. McDermott, Mark A. McDermott, Evan A. Hill, Bram A. Strochlic, One Manhattan West, New York, New York 10001, Telephone: (212) 735-3000, Fax: (212) 735-2000, Counsel to Debtors and Debtors-in-Possession1 The Debtors in these chapter 11 cases, along with the last four digits of their respective tax identification numbers, are as follows: New Cotai Holdings, LLC (3056); New Cotai, LLC (2582); New Cotai Capital Corp. (3641); New Cotai Ventures, LLC (9385). The Debtors’ corporate address is c/o New Cotai, LLC, Two Greenwich Plaza, Greenwich, Connecticut 06830. 2 Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Plan.

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