Friday, November 7, 2014

Argentina faces u$s4.7 billion claim in 'me too' debt suits

Argentina told New York district judge Thomas Griesa that bondholders filed 25 lawsuits since June, when the judge ordered blocking the nation from paying its restructured debt without also paying a group of holdouts, Bloomberg news has reported.
With the initiative, investors seek to profit from his order, filing “me too” suits, many of which have already won judgments on the defaulted bonds. The claim sums up to u$s4.7 billion.

The Argentine lawyer, Carmine Boccuzzi, told Griesa in a letter yesterday that holders of Argentina’s defaulted debt will seek to have his 2012 order applied in their cases, and argued Argentina cannot be compelled to paying in full.
“There can be no equitable basis for seeking to compel the Republic, whose reserves are approximately $28 billion and must be used for critical macroeconomic purposes, to do the impossible by paying in full its holdout debt,” Boccuzzi said in the letter.
 [buenosairesherald.com]
7/11/14
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  1. Fondos buitre: los reclamos al país ya llegan a US$ 4.700 millones ...

    Argentina le dijo al juez federal de Nueva York, Thomas Griesa, que hay 25 nuevas demandas por bonos de deuda impagos que reclaman 4.700 millones de dólares a partir de la sentencia emitida a favor de un grupo de fondos especulativos. "Desde el 16 de junio de 2014 se presentaron 25 nuevas demandas vinculadas con reclamos por cerca de 1.800 millones de dólares en capital y sentencias que totalizan aproximadamente 4.700 millones de dólares", escribió en una carta a Griesa fechada en el día de ayer por el abogado Carmine Boccuzzi, del estudio Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP que representa al país.

    En la jerga judicial, estos nuevos demandantes son conocidos como los "me too" (yo también) y forman parte del 7% de tenedores de bonos en default desde 2001 que no entraron en los canjes de 2005 y 2010 que efectuó Argentina con importantes quitas.

    Boccuzzi recordó que Argentina advirtió sobre el riesgo de un efecto cascada a partir de la orden de Griesa que reconocía a los fondos especulativos el 'pari passu' o tratamiento equitativo para cobrar lo adeudado al mismo tiempo que los tenedores de bonos reestructurados.

    Argentina se niega a aceptar la orden de Griesa y desde julio pasado se encuentra en default parcial de su deuda reestructurada en canjes con una aceptación del 93%, ya que el juez bloqueó sus pagos hasta que cobren también los acreedores judiciales. "Las órdenes (judiciales) han tenido solo un efecto negativo: han creado más litigio", afirmó Bocuzzi en la carta a Griesa, precisando que Argentina no puede pagar por completo esos reclamos y debe dedicar sus reservas internacionales con "propósitos macroeconómicos críticos".

    En una carta del pasado 8 de octubre que menciona Boccuzzi, uno de los abogados del fondo NML Capital, Robert Cohen, había mencionado 52 tenedores de títulos de deuda impaga con y sin sentencia que pedirían órdenes como las que obtuvieron los fondos "buitres" por un total de más de 4.400 millones de dólares.
    http://www.clarin.com/politica/Thomas_Griesa-juez-fondos_buitre-deuda-buitres_0_1244275912.html
    7/11/14

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  2. Judge Griesa authorises Citibank to make bond payments ...

    New York District judge Thomas Griesa has authorised Citibank to complete the transfer of 85 million dollars to holders of restructured Argentine bonds under local law, meeting debt services that expire on December 31.

    The financial entity had previously requested an audience with the justice to evaluate the situation scheduled for December 2, but in his latest ruling Griesa put on hold that meeting and gave the green light for payment.

    Citibank's request will have to be repeated in the future, however, as Griesa has consistently only allowed the honouring of commitments to bondholders under Argentine legislation on a 'one-time basis', since the country's dispute with vulture funds saw an interruption in payments at the end of July 2014.

    The next step for the nation in the ongoing legal conflict with hedge funds such as NML Capital, who demand full repayment on titles defaulted on in 2001, will be to await the magistrate's decision concerning other holdout investors who refused to enter 2005 and 2010 restructuring efforts.

    Argentina's attorneys have asked for the "pari passu" judgement not to be applied to any further litigants, with a ruling expected later this week. The nation has already revealed that it would not begin negotiations without a commitment from other creditors to not request equal rights with the rest of the vulture funds in the case of a favourable judgement.
    http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/174381/judge-griesa-authorises-citibank-to-make-bond-payments
    10/11/14

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