TIDM69ZM
RNS Number : 0508A
Intu Debenture PLC
28 January 2022
Intu Debenture PLC
Update on Proposed Restructuring and Defaults
INTU DEBENTURE PLC
LEI: 213800UX3TM5RGB1UF29
GBP354,876,000 5.562 per cent. First Mortgage Debenture Stock
2027
INTU DEBENTURE PLC (THE "COMPANY") ANNOUNCES UPDATE ON PROPOSED
RESTRUCTURING and Defaults
28 January 2022
Update on Proposed Restructuring
Further to the Company announcements made in 2021, all of which
are available on the Company website at
https://debentureplc.com/rns/, the Company has continued to
finalise the documentation required in connection with the proposed
amendment and restructuring transaction (the "Proposed
Restructuring"), which is well progressed and in final stages. The
Proposed Restructuring will only be implemented once approved by
the Stockholders by way of an Extraordinary Resolution.
As announced by the Company in an RNS dated 19 November 2021,
certain trading in the Stock took place in the autumn of 2021 which
resulted in members of the Ad Hoc Committee holding less than 50
per cent of the outstanding principal amount of the Stock. The
Company can confirm that advisors to the Ad Hoc Committee have
subsequently identified additional Stockholders and that holders of
a significant majority of the outstanding principal amount of the
Stock have indicated that they are supportive of the Proposed
Restructuring in principle (subject to finalisation of the
documentation required in connection with the Proposed
Restructuring). The terms of the Proposed Restructuring remain
substantially as communicated in the Company's Stockholder update
of 22 January 2021, which is available on the Company website at
https://debentureplc.com/quarterlyreports/.
The Company intends to include, in the same Extraordinary
Resolution relating to the Proposed Restructuring, a resolution
relating to the Company's amended business plan (the "Revised
Business Plan"). As per the Company update report dated 9 November
2021 (available on the Company website at
https://debentureplc.com/quarterlyreports/), the Company
anticipates that its Revised Business Plan will be finalised in Q1
2022. Accordingly, the Company expects to issue the Notice of
Meeting at which Stockholders will be asked to consider and, if
thought fit, approve an Extraordinary Resolution regarding both the
Proposed Restructuring and the Revised Business Plan on or prior to
31 March 2022, subject to the Revised Business Plan first being
finalised before such date.
Combining the resolutions for both the Proposed Restructuring
and the Revised Business Plan into a single Extraordinary
Resolution will result in a delay to the issuance of the Notice of
Meeting, which (as per the Company announcement made on 23 December
2021 (available on the Company website at
https://debentureplc.com/rns/)) the Company previously intended to
issue in January 2022.
The Company considers that the advantages of the combined
Extraordinary Resolution are to minimise logistical requirements
for the Company and Stockholders, enable the Company to continue to
focus on the success of its business and to eliminate the
additional costs that would otherwise be incurred by convening two
separate meetings of Stockholders. In addition, the combined
Extraordinary Resolution will ensure that Stockholders will have
the opportunity to review the Revised Business Plan and the latest
information regarding the Company's business prior to the meeting
to consider and, if thought fit, approve the Proposed
Restructuring. The Ad Hoc Committee is supportive of this
approach.
Events of Default and Anticipated Events of Default
As anticipated in the Company's announcement dated 23 November
2021 (available on the Company website at
(https://debentureplc.com/rns/), the Company failed to pay, wholly
or partly, either the Scheduled Interest Amount or the Scheduled
Redemption Amount on 31 December 2021 (the "December Payments") or
within the 14 day grace period for non-payment (as set out in
Condition 16(i) of the Stock). As a result, an Event of Default has
arisen under the Trust Deed as of 14 January 2022 in connection
with the December Payments. The Company acknowledges, as per prior
announcements, which are available on its website, that other
Events of Default have occurred and are continuing under the Trust
Deed including, without limitation, as a result of the Company's
failure to make payment of the Scheduled Interest Amount and the
Scheduled Redemption Amount otherwise due on 30 June 2020 (as
deferred to 7 August 2020), 31 December 2020 and 30 June 2021.
Further to the Company's announcement dated 28 June 2021
(available on the Company website at
(https://debentureplc.com/rns/) (the "Accounts RNS"), the Company
anticipated the occurrence of an Event of Default due to the
failure to file the annual accounts for the year ending 31 December
2020 (the "2020 Annual Accounts"), which were originally due on 30
June 2021. Ultimately, an extension request was granted on 28 June
2021 (immediately after the Accounts RNS was published), which
extended the filing deadline to 30 September 2021. A further
extension request was granted extending the filing deadline to 31
December 2021. As per the Trust Deed, and as more fully set out in
the Accounts RNS, failure to comply with the account filing
deadline will, within fourteen days from receipt of a notice in
writing from the Trustee, result in an Event of Default. The
Trustee delivered a notice to the Company on 28 January 2022
confirming that an Event of Default will, unless remedied, arise on
11 February 2022 in connection with the 2020 Annual Accounts not
being filed on or prior to the filing deadline. The Company is
continuing to work alongside BDO LLP, its auditor (the "Auditor"),
to finalise the 2020 Annual Accounts, but despite the significant
progress made, it does not expect these will be filed within the
next fourteen days. As a further extension request has been denied,
the Company therefore anticipates that an Event of Default will
arise on 11 February 2022 in connection with the 2020 Annual
Accounts.
The delay in filing in the 2020 Annual Accounts remains as per
the reasons more fully set out in the Accounts RNS, which are
primarily administrative in nature. The Auditor has, since its
appointment, been required to complete extensive procedures to
familiarise itself with the structure of the Company and its
subsidiaries, including all historic reporting and migration from
the broader Intu group. Migration has, in part, resulted in
accounting records being maintained on former Intu systems by
former members of the Intu finance team and neither the Company nor
the Auditor have had access to these records for much of 2021.
Logistical constraints resulting from Covid-related working from
home regulations and recommendations have further exacerbated the
delay.
The Company will continue to keep Stockholders notified of any
relevant developments in accordance with applicable law and
regulation.
Capitalised terms used in this Notice and not otherwise defined
shall have the meanings given to them in the Trust Deed dated 5
October 2006 (as amended and supplemented from time to time) and
the Supplemental Trust Deed dated 30 July 2020 (together, the
"Trust Deed") constituting the Stock and made between the Company,
the Charging Subsidiaries (as defined in the Trust Deed), and The
Law Debenture Trust Corporation p.l.c. (the "Trustee"), unless the
context otherwise requires.
Please note that the Trustee has not been involved in the
preparation or formulation of this announcement and expresses no
views or opinions on this announcement. Stockholders are advised to
take their own legal, financial and/or tax advice in relation to
this announcement.
Stockholders should contact the following for further
information:
Company
Simmons & Simmons LLP
Citypoint
1 Ropemaker Street
London
EC2Y 9SS
United Kingdom
Email: intu@simmons-simmons.com
Attention: Peter Manning and James Taylor
Registrar
Link Group
10th Floor
Central Square
29 Wellington Street
Leeds
LS1 4DL
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 371 664 0300
(Calls are charged at the standard geographic rate and will vary
by provider. Calls outside the United Kingdom will be charged at
the applicable international rate. Open between 09:00 -17:30,
Monday to Friday excluding public holidays in England and
Wales)
Email: shareholderenquiries@linkgroup.co.uk
Alvarez & Marsal Europe LLP and Milbank LLP have been
retained as financial and legal advisers to an ad hoc group of
Stockholders. Their contact details are as follows:
ProjectIrisAMTeam@alvarezandmarsal.com and Iris@milbank.com.
This announcement is made by Intu Debenture PLC
Dated: 28 January 2022
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