1.5.Acciona heeft Naval, OSX Brazil en OSX Leasing bij dagvaarding van 15 januari 2014 gedagvaard voor het ‘Civil Court of the Judicial District of Rio de Janeiro’. Acciona heeft haar vordering in deze dagvaarding onder meer als volgt omschreven/toegelicht:
28.Escrow no. II and Pledge.The Instrument provides that, as Warranty for the proof of claim held by Acciona, besides the guarantee of OSX Brasil, the parties offer as pledge an escrow account, referred to as Escrow Account no. II (…)
29. The dynamics of the offered Warranty, as mentioned in the Instrument, would be as follows: OSX Leasing has to receive resources arising from the sale of assets and operating income of agreements of active leases. All received amounts shall be deposited, mainly, in an account referred to as Escrow Account I (…), intended to the warranty of Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico (…) and Caixa Econômica Federal (…), due to the provision of guarantees in the scope of flotation in approximate amount of BRL 1 billion.
30. After payment of these financial institutions, the remaining amount should be immediately directed to another account, referred to as Escrow II, to ensure the payment of Acciona with priority relatively to any other creditor.
31. The parties further agreed that Escrow II may not have balance less than the equivalent of 3 (three) months of interest payable to Acciona (…).
32. This Warranty should be formed until 11.21.2013, but so far Acciona has not received documentation provided for in the Instrument, or news about the opening of the account and incorporation of pledge.
33.Risk of Default.The default of Defendants with regard to the obligation (…) (i) empties in full the guarantee executed between the parties, (ii) is cause for acceleration of debt and (iii) endangers the receipt of $ 300,000,000.00 (…) owed by Defendants to Acciona, so that the non-compliance with obligations purpose of this demand certainly had resulted in losses to Acciona, by making more costly of impossible the recovery of due credit.
69. Due to the foregoing, Acciona requests the preliminary grant of the request for interlocutory relief, in order to determine that the Defendants (i) provide the opening of Escrow II, as well as constitute the pledge on it (…) and (ii) notify (…) the Administrative Agents of CEF (...) and of BNDES (…) about the necessity to make the destination of the credit balance of Escrow I to Escrow II (…)
1.5.1.De behandelend rechter van het ‘Civil Court of the Judicial District of Rio de Janeiro’ heeft de zaak bij beslissing van 21 januari 2014 ter verdere behandeling verwezen naar het ‘Business Court of the Judicial District of the Capital of the State of Rio de Janeiro’.