Germany Facing Lawsuit Over Decades-Old Bond Default

MT. PLEASANT, South Carolina, August 12, 2010 - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued an opinion on
Monday, August 9, 2010, affirming the U.S. District Court for the Southern
District of Florida's denial of Germany's motion to dismiss the Complaint for
lack of subject matter jurisdiction in the case of World Holdings, LLC v. The
Federal Republic of Germany. This ruling means that Germany is not entitled
to sovereign immunity from a lawsuit filed in 2008 by Florida-based company
World Holdings, LLC. The suit alleges Germany failed to honor payment
obligations on bonds marketed and sold in the years following World War I.

World Holdings filed an amended complaint in the case on June 3, 2008, in
federal court in Miami to obtain payment on U.S. Gold bearer bonds, known as
Dawes Bonds and Young Bonds, that Germany issued to thousands of individual
American and other investors in 1924 and 1930. The bonds were bearer bonds
sold in the United States, traded on the New York Stock Exchange and backed
by the full faith and credit of Germany. World Holdings currently owns or
controls a large number of Dawes and Young Bonds sold to U.S. purchasers and
is charging Germany with breach of contract based on the country's alleged
default of its obligation to pay the outstanding principal and accrued
interest on these bonds. The lawsuit seeks damages in the amount of
outstanding principal and accrued interest.

"We are pleased by the court's decision," said Motley Rice attorney
Michael Elsner, who represents World Holdings. "We may now move forward with
the case, and our client will have the opportunity it deserves to establish
that its bonds should be enforceable and that Germany should be held
accountable."

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