Arctic Glacier To Restructure Under CCAA

Arctic Glacier Income Fund said Wednesday it will file for a court supervised restructuring under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act that the ice maker said could result in a sale or recapitalization of the business, The Globe and Mail reported on a Canadian Press story. The process has the support both of Arctic Glacier's secured lenders and two of its unitholders, Coliseum Capital Management and Talamod Asset Management, the fund said.
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Mexico is studying international best practices for corporate bankruptcy proceedings after glassmaker Vitro SAB’s use of intercompany debt caused some investors to question the country’s laws, Bloomberg Businessweek reported. Vitro, which won a Mexican court’s approval this month for its debt restructuring plan, has called attention to a loophole in the country’s bankruptcy process that allowed it to use loans made to itself to qualify as its own biggest creditor.
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Hellas Telecommunications Luxembourg II SCA filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy to put on hold certain lawsuits pending against the company in New York State Supreme Court, Bloomberg Businessweek reported. The company, based in London, listed both debt and assets of more than $100 million in documents filed today in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan. Chapter 15 protects foreign companies from U.S. lawsuits and creditor claims while a company reorganizes abroad. Hellas Telecommunications Luxembourg is asking the U.S.
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British refinery Coryton will continue to operate for at least three more months after Marcel Van Poecke, a co-founder of insolvent owner Petroplus, teamed up with Morgan Stanley and investor KKR to provide fresh crude supplies, Reuters reported. Coryton is the most coveted asset of the five refineries owned by Petroplus around Europe, traders and analysts say. It has been running at half capacity since banks stopped financing Petroplus in late December.
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Missing at MF: $1.6 Billion

The trustee supervising the liquidation of MF Global Holdings Ltd.'s brokerage on Friday said that more than $1.6 billion in customer cash remains out of his grasp, more than previously estimated, The Wall Street Journal reported. Included in that figure for the first time is roughly $700 million in client money residing in the U.K., which is likely to be the center of a legal fight with KPMG, the U.K.-based administrator overseeing the unwinding of MF Global's London-based division. "We now know we're in for a long haul with the U.K.
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Oilsands Quest Inc., which explores for oil in sand deposits in western Canada, is seeking protection from its U.S. creditors and shareholders, Dow Jones Daily Bankruptcy Review reported. Oilsands, which once did business as CanWest Petroleum Corp., sought the protection of a Canadian court last November. The Calgary, Alberta, company is now asking the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan to recognize the Canadian proceeding and extend its protection to the company in the U.S., where it faces three shareholder lawsuits.
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Mexican glass maker Vitro SAB said Tuesday that a court in Mexico has approved its debt restructuring, but that it expects certain of its bondholders who have fought the deal to continue efforts against the plan, Dow Jones reported. In a press release, Vitro said a judge in Monterrey approved the proposed restructuring put forward by the conciliator in the case. The restructuring of $1.5 billion in third-party debt has caused controversy among bondholders, as it involves Vitro voting on an additional $1.9 billion in intercompany debt to secure the majority needed for approval.
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Canadian foamer Domfoam International Inc. has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US after flagging sales and a million-dollar fine over price-fixing led the company into insolvency, PlasticsNews.com reported. Domfoam filed for Chapter 15 protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Toledo, where it faced more than a dozen lawsuits over the inflated prices it charged for its foam that goes into carpet underlay, furniture and bedding, according to a report from Dow Jones.
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The International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday that global growth prospects had dimmed as the sovereign debt crisis in the euro zone entered a “perilous new phase,” the International Herald Tribune reported. Releasing quarterly updates of three reports on the outlooks for the economy, debt and global financial stability, the fund cut its estimates of global growth this year to 3.25 percent, from the 4 percent it forecast in September, on “sharply escalated” risks emanating from Europe.
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Retailer Hart Stores Inc. said Quebec Superior Court has authorized a filing under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) calling for payments totalling $6 million over three years to monitor RSM Richter Inc., The Montreal Gazette reported. The money would be for distribution to creditors, who can accept their pro-rata share or a lump sum equal to the lesser of the value of their claims or $1,000. A meeting of creditors to vote on the proposal is expected in February. If creditors approve, it will then go to Quebec Superior Court for ratification.
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