Regal Parent Cineworld Has Reached Out To 30 Potential Buyers As It Pursues Sale, Initial Bids Due Next Month
26.01.2023 - 01:57
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Regal parent Cineworld said it’s opted to pursue a sale of assets and the process “is well under way” with non-binding bids due Feb 16.
The company said in a bankruptcy filing that it’s reached out to 30 “potential transaction parties” including many competitors. If the debtors (Cineworld and its affiliates) find one of more of the bids to be “a potential value maximizing proposition, a second phase of the process will commence with the solicitation of binding offers.”
U.K.-based Cineworld filed for Chapter 11 in September in bankruptcy court in the Southern District of Texas. It announced early this month that it had started a marketing process to find a strategic or financial buyer. A reorganization was also an option but the company said it hadn’t yet received a response to a restructuring proposal provided to the Ad Hoc Group on Dec. 1. “As a result, the Debtors have made the Marketing Process their major focus,” said the filing this week.
An Ad Hoc group in a bankruptcy is a committe of creditors or bondholders who join together to pursue claims.
Cineworld said the process comes as it has succeeded in “successfully stabilizing operations and maintaining… market share,” despite box office receipts falling short of industry-wide projections.
It also stressed with some heat that it and it alone is running the sale process, warning interested parties not to attempt deals behind the company’s back.
“There will be no back door…Certain Outreach Parties, including two competitors, have attempted to engage directly with the Ad Hoc Group or certain lenders in an attempt to undermine the Debtors’ process. This will not happen or be tolerated. The Debtors will facilitate conversations between the Ad Hoc Group and the
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