South Korean shipbuilder offered $2.6bn bailout

The lucky winner of the $2,600,000,000 door prize is ... Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co.!

  • Korea Development Bank and Export-Import Bank of Korea will provide 2.9 trillion won ($2.6 billion) in additional loans
  • And swap about 1.6 trillion won of debt to equity
  • Conditional upon other creditors and bondholders agreeing to convert as much as 80 percent of their debt to equity and extend maturities by as much as five years

--

more at Reuters

and Bloomberg

Featured Videos