Alliance Bank (Kazakhstan) signed the agreement on restructuring terms with the Creditors Committee and interest payment moratorium on September 8, 2009
06.10.09 15:27
/KASE, October 6, 09/ - Alliance Bank (Almaty), the listed company of
Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), provided to KASE the following press
release:
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Alliance Bank (the "Bank") is pleased to announce that it signed a term sheet
today with the Creditors' Steering Committee, consisting of Asian Development
Bank, Calyon, Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft, DEG - Deutsche Investitions-
und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH, HSBC Bank plc, ING Asia Private Bank
Limited, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Europe Limited and Wachovia Bank, N.A., outlining the terms of its proposed
financial restructuring ("Restructuring") as envisaged by the Memorandum of
Understanding dated 6th July 2009.
The term sheet contains details of the different options that will be proposed to
the Bank's creditors under the Restructuring to recapitalise the Bank and the
basis by which JSC National Welfare Fund Samruk Kazyna will take control of the
Bank. The term sheet is non-binding on any financial creditor and the
Restructuring will be subject to various approvals, including the approval by the
creditors' meeting pursuant to the applicable Kazakhstan law.
The full text of the term sheet will be available on the Bank's website at
www.albinvestorrelations.com in due course. In addition, the Bank announces that
all interest (except default interest) and all late payment donations under
Islamic facilities due and payable (as determined in accordance with contractual
schedule) up to and including 8 September 2009 will be paid by the Bank on or
before the business day immediately following the day the creditors' meeting to
approve the Restructuring is held. With a view to preserving cash for the
Restructuring, all interest that had accrued but was not payable on or prior to 8
September 2009 and all interest accruing after 8 September 2009 will form part of
the relevant creditors' claims to be restructured. The Bank is not intending to
pay any default interest prior to or in conjunction with the Restructuring.
Details of the Restructuring timetable, including the date on which a creditors'
meeting will be held, will be set out in an information memorandum to be delivered
to the Bank's creditors in advance of such meeting.
For additional information, please contact:
Public relations Service
Tel. +7 (727) 258 40 40
e-mail: pr@alb.kz
website: www.alb.kz
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[2009-10-06]