(Reuters) - Barclays Plc is entitled to recover roughly $1.8 billion of disputed assets and interest related to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc's bankruptcy, a U.S. federal judge said, reversing a decision by a federal bankruptcy judge.
U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan on Tuesday said BARCLAYS (BARC.LO)may recover about $1.5 billion of assets related to exchange-traded derivatives of Lehman's brokerage unit, Lehman Brothers Inc, plus about $280 million of interest.
Barclays bought most of the brokerage unit's North American operations in the week after the Lehman parent's September 15, 2008, bankruptcy, a primary trigger of the global financial crisis.
Tuesday's decision partially reversed a February 2011 ruling by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge James Peck, who oversaw Lehman's bankruptcy. Other parts of that ruling were affirmed.
(Reporting by Caroline Humer and Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Gary Hill)
