Jason M. Leviton (pro hac vice) 1 Joel A. Fleming (CA Bar No. 281264) 2 Jacob A. Walker (CA Bar No. 271217) 3 Lauren Godles Milgroom (pro hac vice) Amanda R. Crawford (pro hac vice) 4 BLOCK & LEVITON LLP 5 260 Franklin Street, Suite 1860 Boston, MA 02110 6 (t) (617) 398-5600 7 (f) (617) 507-6020 jason@blockesq.com 8 joel@blockesq.com 9 jake@blockesq.com lauren@blockesq.com 10 amanda@blockesq.com 11 Attorneys for Plaintiff MabVax Therapeutics Holdings, Inc. 12 [Additional counsel appear on signature page.] 13 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 14 SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 15 16 MABVAX THERAPEUTICS HOLDINGS, Case No.: 3:18-cv-02494-WQH-DEB 17 INC., JOINT APPLICATION FOR STAY 18 PENDING BANKRUPTCY COURT Plaintiff, 19 APPROVAL OF SETTLEMENT 20 v. Before: U.S. District Judge 21 William Q. Hayes SICHENZIA ROSS FERENCE LLP (f/k/a 22 SICHENZIA ROSS FERENCE KESNER Date/Time: To Be Set By Court LLP; f/k/a SICHENZIA ROSS FRIEDMAN 23 FERENCE LLP) and HARVEY KESNER, 24 Defendants. 25 26 27 28 APPLICATION CASE NO. 3:18-CV-02494-WQH-DEB 1 I. APPLICATION 2 The Court previously stayed this action to conserve the resources of Plaintiff 3 MabVax Therapeutics Holdings, Inc. (“MabVax”) and Defendants Sichenzia Ross 4 Ference LLP (“SRF” or “Sichenzia”) and Harvey Kesner (“Kesner,” with SRF, 5 “Defendants,” and with SRF and MabVax, the “Parties”) and to facilitate mediation. 6 ECF No. 125. 7 As a result of that mediation, the Parties have signed a term sheet to resolve 8 the claims brought in this action. The Parties are preparing a formal stipulation of 9 settlement (which they have agreed to complete within 21 days) and will then need 10 to seek approval of the Settlement from the United States Bankruptcy Court for the 11 District of Delaware. 12 The parties respectfully ask the Court to continue the stay of this action 13 pending Bankruptcy Court approval. A proposed order is attached. 14 15 DATED: July 23, 2020 16 BLOCK & LEVITON LLP LEWIS BRISBOIS BISGAARD & 17 SMITH LLP 18 By: /s/ Joel A. Fleming Jason M. Leviton (pro hac vice) /s/ Corinne C. Bertsche 19 Joel A. Fleming (SBN 281264) Corinne C. Bertsche, SB # 174939 20 Jacob A. Walker (SBN 271217) Charles S. Haughey, Jr. SB # 66148 21 Lauren Godles Milgroom (pro hac 701 B Street, Suite 1900 vice) San Diego, California 92101 22 Amanda Crawford (pro hac vice) Telephone: 619.233. 1006 23 260 Franklin Street, Suite 1860 Facsimile: 619.233.8627 Boston, MA 02110 Corinne.Bertsche@lewisbrisbois.com 24 (t) (617) 398-5600 Chuck.Haughey@lewisbrisbois.com 25 (f) (617) 507-6020 jason@blockesq.com Mark K. Anesh 26 joel@blockesq.com LEWIS BRISBOIS BISGAARD & 27 2 APPLICATION CASE NO. 3:18-CV-02494-WQH-DEB 28 jake@blockesq.com SMITH LLP 1 lauren@blockesq.com 77 Water Street, Suite 2100 2 amanda@blockesq.com New York, New York 10005 Telephone: 212.232.1411 3 Attorneys for Plaintiff MabVax Facsimile: 212.232.1399 4 Therapeutics Holdings, Inc. Mark.Anesh@lewisbrisbois.com 5 Attorneys for Defendant Sichenzia Ross 6 Ference LLP 7 GORDON REES SCULLY 8 MANSUKHANI, LLP 9 /s/ Tamara Seelman 10 John M. Palmeri (pro hac vice) 11 Tamara A. Seelman (pro hac vice) 555 Seventeenth Street, Suite 3400 12 Denver, CO 80202 13 Telephone: (303) 534-5160 Facsimile: (303) 534-5161 14 jpalmeri@grsm.com 15 tseelman@grsm.com 16 Joseph W. Goodman (SBN: 230161) 17 GORDON REES SCULLY MANSUKHANI, LLP 18 101 W. Broadway, Suite 2000 19 San Diego, CA 92101 Telephone: (619) 696-6700 20 Facsimile: (619) 696-7124 21 jgoodman@grsm.com 22 Attorneys for Defendant Harvey Kesner 23 24 25 26 27 3 APPLICATION CASE NO. 3:18-CV-02494-WQH-DEB 28