In what the Financial Times has called “the sovereign debt restructuring case of the century,” Argentina has timely submitted its proposal as requested by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, with which it is willing to make payments on approximately $1.3 billion of unpaid debt obligations that stem from the country’s $95 billion debt default of December 2001.
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What is a debt restructuring?
The aim of any restructuring (also sometimes called a workout) is to rearrange the debtor’s financial commitments so that it is able to service its restructured debts and survive as a going concern. It is important to note that this is a consensual process and is not undertaken under the supervision of a court or other supervisory body - therefore, it is important the all creditors are involved.
If it’s voluntary, how does it work?
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Since 2005, when the Bankruptcy Law was approved, the Brazilian market has been experiencing a continuous evolution of the operational aspects resulting from the restructuring or recovery processes of companies.
The crisis that has affected the Brazilian economy in recent years has considerably increased the number of companies that have had to restructure their debt, either by extending maturities, adding new collateral and sharing them or by means of a recovery plan.
Thomaz Bastos, Waisberg, Kurzweil Advogados and Pinheiro Neto Advogados have helped Máquina de Vendas close a deal to restructure its 3 billion reais debt (US$779 million), in what is thought to Brazil’s largest ever debt restructuring by a retailer.
Pinheiro Neto advised Máquina de Vendas’ founding partner, Ricardo Nunes.
Rio de Janeiro-based Oi SA, Brazil’s fourth-largest telecom company, filed on Monday 20 June 2016 the largest judicial reorganisation petition in Brazil’s history, days after debt restructuring talks with creditors collapsed. The filing of Oi and six subsidiaries lists 65.4 billion reais ($19.26 billion) in debt. The company also filed for Chapter 15 protection in the U.S. on Tuesday.