Yellow Media Inc. can continue its transformation into a digital company now that a majority of debtholders and shareholders have approved a controversial plan to reduce its $1.8-billion debt, the directories publisher said Thursday, The Globe and Mail reported on a Canadian Press story. The Montreal company said it will put the debt restructuring plan in place by the end of this month, but added it’s still subject to a number of conditions, including final approval by the Quebec Superior Court.

Belize’s creditors are betting the Central American country will improve its bond restructuring offer in order to maintain access to global debt markets. The government says it doesn’t need them, Bloomberg Businessweek reported. Belize’s $1.4 billion economy, which expanded 2 percent in 2011, can go without more borrowing on international credit markets, Prime Minister Dean Barrow said in an Aug. 22 press conference. The country didn’t sell global bonds before 1998 and hasn’t returned to them since a 2007 restructuring. Barrow’s government, which missed a $23 million coupon payment on Aug.

Homburg Invest Inc. shareholders may not get a dime following the restructuring of the troubled Halifax-based real estate company, according to new documents, The Chronicle Herald reported. Last October, the debt-plagued company went to court to obtain protection under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, while Deloitte, the court-appointed monitor, restructured its affairs. The company’s management discussion and analysis sheds some light on what a restructuring means to Homburg and its investors.

China Medical Technologies Inc., a maker of diagnostic products, filed for Chapter 15 foreign-firm bankruptcy protection in New York, listing as much as $500 million in assets and debts, Bloomberg Businessweek reported. China Medical, which makes products to monitor various diseases including cancer, also listed foreign bankruptcy proceedings pending in the Cayman Islands, according to a petition posted in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan. Chapter 15 helps shield overseas companies from U.S. lawsuits and creditor claims while a company continues the process abroad.

Yellow Media Inc.’s decision to sweeten its proposed debt restructuring by offering more to holders of convertible debentures has done little to pacify the incensed group, putting the media company in a bind just days before its plan goes to a vote, The Globe and Mail reported. On Tuesday, the media company struck a much more conciliatory tone that its language in recent weeks and offered convert holders, who own bonds that can convert to common shares, better terms as part of the restructuring.

Gerova Financial Group Ltd., a Bermuda-based financial-services company, sought U.S. bankruptcy court protection listing debt of as much as $500 million, Bloomberg reported. The Hamilton-based firm, formerly known as Asia Special Situations Acquisition Corp., filed a Chapter 15 petition in Manhattan today to protect its U.S. assets from creditors. Assets were valued at more than $50 million, Gerova said. Gerova began liquidation proceedings July 20 in Bermuda. Chapter 15 shields foreign companies from U.S. lawsuits and creditor claims while a company continues the process abroad.

Belize’s government aims to restructure its debt through negotiations with bondholders and will consider any proposal presented, Prime Minister Dean Barrow told reporters in Belize City Wednesday, Bloomberg Businessweek reported. The country has worked in “good faith” with its creditors and is willing to discuss alternative restructuring scenarios, Barrow said, while stating that the government would only accept proposals that involved sustainable debt levels. “Debt sustainability is the whole and entire object of this exercise,” Barrow said.

Failed Japanese chipmaker Elpida Memory Inc, which has agreed to be bought by U.S. rival Micron Technology Inc, said on Tuesday it had submitted a restructuring plan to the Tokyo District Court, the next step in efforts to ensure the survival of some of its operations, Reuters reported. Micron agreed in early July to buy Elpida for about $750 million in cash and pay creditors a total of $1.75 billion in annual instalments through 2019. A group of Elpida bondholders said Micron is offering too little for the chipmaker. Elpida did not elaborate the content of the plan.

Belize has threatened to withhold a coupon payment due on a $547m bond this month, which could plunge the Central American country into formal default and casts a cloud over restructuring talks with creditors, the Financial Times reported. The bond maturing in 2029 is a product of a previous debt restructuring in 2006 and represents roughly half of Belize’s total public debt, according to the government. “We simply cannot afford this coupon payment given the financing shortfalls and other challenges we face,” Dean Barrow, Belize’s prime minister, said.

Shareholders of troubled timber firm Sino-Forest Corp. would receive nothing under a proposed restructuring plan that would transfer remaining assets to creditors, thestar.com reported. A once-mighty company with a market capitalization of $6 billion, Sino Forest is now in tatters as its former executives face fraud accusations that include overstating assets and sales in China. Sino-Forest says it is owed $887.4 million from authorized intermediaries, who operated on its behalf in China.