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Competing lenders' rescue deals split Thames board
November 11, 2024
|The Guardian
Thames Water's board is split over two competing deals from its lenders aimed at saving Britain's biggest water supplier from going insolvent.
Two classes of creditors, group A bondholders and group B bondholders, are offering high-interest £3bn rescue packages intended as a liquidity lifeline as the company burns through cash while seeking to restructure its debts.
Thames is labouring under an unsustainable £15bn debt after years of paying hefty dividends as well as fines for pollution infractions. Its shareholders, which include the UK academics' pension fund and international investors from China, Canada and Abu Dhabi, have labelled the company "uninvestible" and refused to put in more money.
That has left Thames heading for a restructuring expected to wipe out shareholders and allow its lenders to seize the company - or force it into temporary state ownership.
هذه القصة من طبعة November 11, 2024 من The Guardian.
اشترك في Magzter GOLD للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة، وأكثر من 9000 مجلة وصحيفة.
هل أنت مشترك بالفعل؟ تسجيل الدخول
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