«As such, we are concerned that a cryptocurrency could provide Maduro a mechanism by which to make payments to foreign lenders and
bondholders in the United States, actions that would clearly thwart the intent of U.S. - imposed sanctions.»
While Maduro aims to pay creditors and
bondholders in petro coins in an attempt to lighten the country's debt, his opposition maintains that this plan is likely to fail.
Counsel to a committee of contesting
bondholders in the proposed privatisation of BCE Inc., involving the world's largest leveraged buyout with an enterprise value of $ 52 billion.
Chapman's «Defaulted Securities: The Guide for Trustees and Bondholders» advances understanding and consideration of issues related to trustees and
bondholders in both corporate and municipal financings.
White & Case takes up role for Ukrainian government while Weil instructed by
bondholders in debt negotiations
Namely, stocks, having no expiration (unlike most bonds) and being the most junior stakeholders in a company's capital structure (therefore paid after
bondholders in a hypothetical bankruptcy scenario), typically provide the highest return over the long - run.
This notion is further supported by the inherent risk premium for stocks over bonds because stockholders are behind
bondholders in the first lien on a company's resources in bankruptcy.
Emerging markets often do not provide legal remedies for bondholders comparable to those available to
bondholders in the United States, and it may not be possible to dispose of bonds of distressed issuers.
Removing tolls that are not revenue neutral violates the existing bond covenants and would negatively impact the authority's
bondholders in violation of statutory and constitutional protections.
A key part of the government, the island's sole utility company, PREPA, defaulted on interest payments to
bondholders in July of this year, Vox reports, leading to widespread power outages.
Actually, before I get to Japan, let's get back to Europe because this is what
bondholders in Europe have to look forward to.
Could California stiff
its bondholders in 2011?
Not exact matches
While shareholders will receive only the slightest of premiums on their 12 - cent share price, the big winners are
bondholders, who will recoup a greater share of their loans and not be saddled with stock
in an operationally troubled and undercapitalized company.
Such a solution would stand
in contrast to a
bondholder «bail -
in,» but would perhaps protect Italian households which are heavily exposed to the asset class.
«If the «bail -
in» of junior
bondholders is not announced simultaneously with a bailout of retail investors, the announcement likely would severely hurt the popularity of the parties belonging to the coalition government,» Fois from Barclays said.
This option has already been applied
in four smaller Italian banks but it still had losses for retail
bondholders and took a long time to complete.
Can they expect the same results they achieved
in the case of Argentina,
in which a series of
bondholder - friendly court verdicts ultimately forced the government to settle?
To address the many defaults
in U.S. states and elsewhere around the world, Great Britain created the Corporation of Foreign
Bondholders to represent the interests of these investors.
In fact, to the extent that a federally supervised restructuring reduces the size of
bondholder settlements, it actually saves taxpayer money.)
For example,
in Hans v. Louisiana (1890), the high court ruled against a Louisiana resident
bondholder on 11th Amendment grounds even though it did not specifically preclude suits by a state's citizens.
After playing a two - year game of chicken with management,
bondholders forced the company to wipe out shareholders and legally separate the Lake Erie operation — the most modern integrated steel plant
in North America — from the Hamilton mill and its related obligations.
Of the three big rating agencies, Moody's seems the most chilled out:
In a widely circulated memo dated Oct. 7, it said the U.S. would keep its AAA rating as long as it pays
bondholders.
The U.S. would have to skip paying
bondholders or trim overall spending by 4 %
in order to match revenues and outlays.
But inflicting too much pain on
bondholders could have dire long - term consequences, according to Kim Rueben, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute who specializes
in municipal finance
So there's that, and the worry would be that future issues with any European bank could be resolved
in an as - yet - unknown way with respect to which
bondholders take losses and which don't.
CWCapital Asset Management LLC, a special servicer representing
bondholders, took control of the complex
in 2010 after its owners missed a debt payment.
In Gordon's view, Britain is not yet facing significant pressure from
bondholders, making the austerity drive very much about the politics of the day.
And, he says, Hunter and his army of retail investors did nothing that hasn't been repeatedly done by investment bankers,
bondholders and hedge funds during other CCAAs, such as the restructuring of Hamilton steelmaker Stelco, where self - serving parties threatened the future of thousands of workers
in order to turn a profit after buying voting power from scared creditors.
Remington's
bondholders are also providing some of the bankruptcy loan and will receive a stake
in the company when it exits bankruptcy.
The «inflation reversal» leaves
bondholders particularly bruised, and is most clearly associated with fundamentals: namely a sharp turnaround
in realized consumer price inflation (CPI).
When rates get cut, fixed income yields fall, causing
bondholders to go looking for higher yields
in other countries.
A 1991 feature
in Spy magazine summed him up with the headline, «How to Fool All of the People, All of the Time: How Donald Trump Fooled the Media, Used the Media to Fool the Banks, Used the Banks to Fool the
Bondholders, and Used the
Bondholders to Pay for the Yachts and Mansions and Mistresses.»
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bondholders who have euro - denominated bonds may be able to convince courts
in Europe to order that they get paid — and those orders might be effective, since they would be entirely outside of U.S. jurisdiction.
But there's a pretty good argument that payments on Argentina's euro - denominated bonds never flow through the judge's jurisdiction: Argentina gives the money to a bank
in Buenos Aires, which transfers it to a bank
in Frankfurt, which holds it
in the name of a bank
in Brussels, which transfers it to a London nominee for Belgian and Luxembourg clearinghouses, which pays it to
bondholders.
In October, the European Union pledged to write off 100 billion euros ($ 127.8 billion) of Greece's debt if
bondholders would agree to voluntarily accept 50 percent losses on their Greek holdings.
Sovereign debtors must agree to IMF «conditionalities»
in order to get enough credit to enable
bondholders to take their money and run, avoiding haircuts and leaving «taxpayers» to bear the cost of capital flight and corruption.
According to Griesa (uniquely), this means that if any creditor or vulture fund refuses to participate
in a debt writedown, no such agreement can be reached and the sovereign government can not pay any
bondholders anywhere
in the world, regardless of what foreign jurisdiction the bonds were issued under.
They have advised corporations, senior
bondholders and other key stakeholders on hundreds of millions of dollars
in transactions.
So
in order to save
bondholders and banks from losing, the economy would be wrecked by debt deflation.
If Greece fails to persuade enough
bondholders to take voluntary losses, it may pass a law activating clauses
in the bonds that would force creditors to take losses.
Former rare earths market darling Lynas Corp is deep
in talks with its largest
bondholder about a potential debt - to - equity conversion for which it will seek shareholder approval
in November.
Firms specializing
in liquidation plan to submit a $ 740 million offer for Bon - Ton
in partnership with its
bondholders.
If (some say when) the Greeks default, the Germans or new
bondholders end up with the assets, much like
in a home foreclosure.»
Since early 2008, beginning with the provision of non-recourse funding
in the Bear Stearns debacle, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury have repeatedly allocated or implicitly obligated public funds to defend the
bondholders of mismanaged financial companies.
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If this authority had existed
in 2008, Bear's
bondholders would not now stand to get 100 % of their money back, with interest, as they presently do, and Lehman's disorganized liquidation would have been completely unnecessary.
To what extent should a country impose austerity and even depression on itself — more than a great recession, an entire lost decade on itself — simply to pay interest to
bondholders who've been financing a fiscal system that hasn't really taxed the rich
in Greece?
The sharpest declines
in private - sector employment have occurred
in the «high - tech» industries whose balance sheets have become so debt - ridden that they have been obliged to cut back their investment
in order to use what revenues they have to pay their bankers and
bondholders.
But the operating earnings
in the denominator include money that's actually due to
bondholders and the government (the sum of which currently represents a record high share of «operating earnings»).
Geithner and Obama warned that if Greek
bondholders were not paid
in full, some giant U.S. banks would lose heavily on the default insurance contracts and derivatives they had written, and their losses could spread «contagion» to Europe.