Background
Life Partners Position Holder Trust (“Trust”) and Life Partners IRA Holder Partnership, LLC (“IRA Partnership”) were created on December 9, 2016, as a result of bankruptcy proceedings initiated in 2015 by Life Partners Holdings, Inc., a Texas corporation, its wholly-owned subsidiary Life Partners, Inc., a Texas corporation, and its wholly-owned subsidiary LPI Financial Services, Inc., a Texas corporation (collectively “Debtors”). From 1991 until 2014, Life Partners, Inc. was a specialty financial services company engaged in the business of purchasing individual life insurance policies from third parties by raising money from the offer and sale to investors of “fractional interests” in such policies. LPI Financial Services, Inc. was organized to bill and collect certain fees charged to investors in connection with the business.
The Bankruptcy Court created the Trust and IRA Partnership as part of the Debtors’ plan of reorganization to satisfy the claims of a creditor group that was comprised of approximately 22,000 holders of record (“Investors”), of nearly 100,000 “fractional interests” in life insurance policies on third parties, with a face amount of approximately $2.2 billion as of December 9, 2016 (“Policies”). Also, as a result of the bankruptcy, the Trust is designated as the sole shareholder of the reorganized Debtors.
When used in this Registration Statement, unless otherwise indicated, the terms “Registrants,” “we,” “us” and “our” refers to Life Partners Position Holder Trust and Life Partners IRA Holder Partnership, LLC together; “Trust” or “Position Holder Trust” refers to Life Partners Position Holder Trust; the “IRA Partnership” refers to Life Partners IRA Holder Partnership, LLC; and “Debtors” collectively refers to Life Partners Holdings, Inc., Life Partners, Inc. and LPI Financial Services, Inc.
The Bankruptcy
The Registrants were formed pursuant to the Revised Third Amended Joint Plan of Reorganization of Life Partners Holdings, Inc., et al., dated as of October 27, 2016 (“Plan”), that was confirmed by order of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division on November 1, 2016. The Plan became effective on December 9, 2016 (“Effective Date”), and the Bankruptcy Court appointed Eduardo S. Espinosa, Esq. to serve as Trustee of the Position Holder Trust and as Manager of the IRA Partnership, as of the Effective Date.
The Registrants’ primary purpose is to liquidate the assets of the Debtors in a manner calculated to conserve, protect and maximize the value of the assets and to distribute the proceeds thereof to the Investors who hold the securities issued by the Registrants. The Position Holder Trust was established as a liquidating trust, treated as a grantor trust for state law and federal income tax purposes, and has no objective or authority to continue or engage in the conduct of a trade or business, except to the extent reasonably necessary to, and consistent with, its liquidating purpose. Upon completion of their liquidating purpose, the Trust and the IRA Partnership will be dissolved.
Detailed background information regarding the Registrants’ formation, and the proceedings in the Bankruptcy Court pursuant to which the Plan was developed, confirmed and is being implemented is included in the Disclosure Statement for Third Amended Joint Plan, dated June 22, 2016, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 2.2 to this Registration Statement, and a copy of the Plan itself that is filed as Exhibit 2.1, both of which are incorporated herein by reference. In addition, a copy of the Confirmation Order of the Bankruptcy Court is filed as Exhibit 99.1, a copy of the Trust Agreement for Life Partners Position Holder Trust is filed as Exhibit 3.1, and a copy of the Life Partners IRA Holder Partnership Limited Liability Company Agreement is filed as Exhibit 3.2 to this Registration Statement.
Capitalized terms used in this Registration Statement but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Plan. A glossary of defined terms used in the Plan is set out in Appendix I immediately following page 238 of the Disclosure Statement, which is filed as Exhibit 2.2.
The Debtors
Life Partners, Inc. was engaged in the business of: (i) acting as a life settlement provider by purchasing individual life insurance Policies insuring the lives of terminally ill individuals or seniors from third parties; and (ii) raising money to purchase such Policies by selling investment contracts to investors, including investors who