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Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) agreed to pay Cerberus Capital Management LP $770 million to settle a lawsuit with origins in the 2008 financial crisis.
The settlement amount is $85 million less than CIBC had set aside in a pretax provision in its fiscal first quarter to cover damages and prejudgment interest after a court ruled against it in the matter.
Cerberus’s lawsuit, filed in 2015, accused CIBC of defaulting on payments related to a limited-recourse note that the bank issued
to Cerberus to reduce its exposure to the US residential real estate market.
CIBC issued the note in 2008 and sold a residual interest in the specified payment streams to Cerberus in 2011.
Cerberus had claimed damages of $1.07 billion in the case. CIBC will record the difference between its initial provision and the actual settlement amount in its fiscal second quarter.