B.B.C.F.D., S.A. v. Bank Julius Baer & Co.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Helen E. Freedman, J.), entered January 10, 2008, which denied defendants Baruch Ivcher’s and Waxfield Limited’s motion to amend their answer to include cross claims by Ivcher against defendant/ cross-claim plaintiff Bank Julius Baer & Co., Ltd. and two of its officers, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

The facts underlying Ivcher’s proposed cross claims have been known to him since no later than 2004, if not as long ago as late 2001. His delay until August 2007 in requesting leave to amend his answer is inexcusable (see Chichilnisky v Trustees of Colum*426bia…