“A consortium of U.S.-based creditors to Mexican multimedia conglomerate TV Azteca S.A.B. de C.V. has threatened to take action to seize its assets in Mexico and abroad after the company skipped a year’s worth of interest payments and is on the cusp of forgoing another in February … Mexico City-based TV Azteca is the second largest producer of Spanish-language television programming in the world …
“TV Azteca has been in arrears on its debts for almost an entire year, after it skipped a $16.5 million interest payment on a $400 million dollar-denominated bond due in 2024 last February and hasn’t sent creditors any money they are owed since. The company also opted not to pay another $16.5 million interest payment that came due in August, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
“The company’s largest U.S.-based creditors, including Fidelity Investments Inc., Contrarian Capital Management LLC and Cyrus Capital Partners LP, met with a representative for TV Azteca at Fidelity’s headquarters in Boston on Wednesday to discuss a plan that would repay the bondholders in full plus accrued interest over time, one of the people said. TV Azteca has yet to decide if it will accept the offer.”
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“Pro Bankruptcy Distress”
By Alexander Saeedy
The Wall Street Journal
January 24, 2022
