Thu Dec 26, 2013 2:56pm EST
By Jeb Blount and Walter Brandimarte
RIO DE JANEIRO Dec 26 (Reuters) - Brazilian tycoon Eike Batista's troubled shipbuilder OSX Brasil SA and oil company Oleo e Gas Participações SA have taken another step toward emerging from Latin America's largest-ever bankruptcy with a deal to swap Oleo e Gas debt for stock.
Under the agreement announced late on Wednesday, OSX will convert $1.5 billion owed it by Oleo e Gas into a 7 percent stake in the reformulated oil company, formerly known as OGX Petróleo e Gas Participações SA.
OSX gets all its revenue from leasing oil-production vessels to Oleo e Gas.
The deal fleshes out a wider debt-for-stock accord between Batista's Oleo e Gas and holders of $3.8 billion of bonds announced on Tuesday. Under that agreement, bondholders will contribute between $200 million and $215 million of loans known as in debtor in possession finance in exchange for 65 percent of the stock in a restructured Oleo and Gas.
If approved by a Jan. 24 deadline, the accords will seal the end of Batista's once-giant EBX industrial conglomerate even as the companies are allowed to continue operating.
The accords leave Batista with controlling stakes in only three of the six publicly traded EBX companies.
Of the remaining three, he has had to sell off key assets of iron ore miner MMX Mineração e Metálicos SA and coal miner CCX Carvão da Colombia SA. A final OSX agreement over bonds sold to finance an oil production ship is expected to see Batista's stake in the shipbuilder sharply reduced.
Both Oleo e Gas and OSX shares rallied on Thursday, as the agreements could help convince a Brazilian bankruptcy judge that the companies can emerge from restructuring as viable businesses and thus should not be liquidated. Oleo e Gas shares rose more than 21 percent and OSX more than 30 percent.
"The deal is crucial for the continuity of our activities as our largest client OGX seeks to reestablish its financial position, allowing it to fulfill its obligations with OSX," the shipbuilder said in a statement late on Wednesday.
It will also free Batista from fulfilling a pledge to put as much as $1 billion into Oleo e Gas to keep it operating until new fields can be brought on line.
Before rebranding itself as Oleo e Gas earlier this month, OGX sought court protection from creditors owed 11.2 billion reais ($4.74 billion), the largest bankruptcy in Latin America and the biggest corporate default in emerging markets this year.
The restructuring process will strip Batista of control of his flagship oil company and leave existing minority shareholders with about 10 percent of Oleo e Gas stock. Non-bondholder creditors will have a total of 25 percent of a new Oleo e Gas after the restructuring.
Once worth more than $50 billion, EBX and its oil, energy, shipbuilding, mining and port-operation units saw their value collapse in the last 18 months in one of the most spectacular corporate reversals in history. Batista's advisers have sold the deals to creditors as the last chance to recover anything, even pennies on the dollar, from their investments.
It's still unclear how much bondholders will recover on their investments in OGX and OSX.
OGX's fate was sealed in mid-2012 after the company failed to produce more than about 10,000 barrels a day from its first field, which it expects to abandon next year. OGX once said it would produce 1.4 million barrels of oil a day, more than two-thirds of Brazil's current output, by the end of 2018.
VESSEL AGREEMENT REACHED
The OSX accord with Oleo e Gas allows for the termination of several contracts to lease oil production vessels to Oleo e Gas, which filed for court protection on Oct. 30 when it was still called OGX.
Other EBX Group companies also changed their names after Batista sold or gave up control. Batista had baptized all his companies with an "X" to symbolize the multiplication of value.
The $1.5 billion is divided into several parts, $414 million for the cancelling of the contract to lease the OSX-1 floating, production, storage and offloading ship (FPSO), $55.3 million for the end of a contract for the OSX-2 FPSO, and $528.6 million for the cancelling of a contract to lease a well-head platform known as WHP-2.
OSX is still in talks with holders of bonds sold to finance the OSX-3 FPSO, which began producing oil for Oleo e Gas in the Tubarão Martelo offshore field east of Rio de Janeiro in early December.
OSX, which operates a shipyard north of Rio, filed for protection from creditors on liabilities of 5.34 billion reais ($2.30 billion) days after OGX's bankruptcy protection filing. The filing did not include its ship-leasing unit that operates the vessels involved in the accord.
- Link this
- Share this
- Digg this
- Reprints
Anda sedang membaca artikel tentang
UPDATE 1-Batista's OSX reaches $1.5 bln deal on OGX contracts
Dengan url
http://streswajah.blogspot.com/2013/12/update-1-batistas-osx-reaches-15-bln.html
Anda boleh menyebar luaskannya atau mengcopy paste-nya
UPDATE 1-Batista's OSX reaches $1.5 bln deal on OGX contracts
namun jangan lupa untuk meletakkan link
UPDATE 1-Batista's OSX reaches $1.5 bln deal on OGX contracts
sebagai sumbernya
0 komentar:
Posting Komentar