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-General Growth Properties, Inc. (NYSE:GGP) (the “Company”) announced today the administrative agent under the Company’s 2006 Senior Credit Agreement received consents from the requisite lenders thereunder to waive certain identified events of default under the 2006 Senior Credit Agreement and to forbear from exercising certain of the lenders’ default related rights and remedies with respect to such identified events of default until December 31, 2009 (unless terminated earlier in accordance with the terms of such forbearance agreement), subject to certain conditions, including final documentation.
The Company also announced today its subsidiary, The Rouse Company LP (“TRCLP”), has extended the expiration date for its previously announced consent solicitation to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on March 20, 2009. In the solicitation, TRCLP is seeking consents from the holders of TRCLP’s unsecured notes (five series with an aggregate outstanding principal amount of approximately $2.25 billion at December 31, 2008) (the “TRCLP Notes”) to forbear from exercising remedies with respect to various payment and other defaults under the TRCLP Notes through December 31, 2009.
The Company also noted that it has been informed by the representatives of an ad hoc committee of holders of TRCLP Notes, the members of which hold in the aggregate approximately 41% of TRCLP Notes, that all of the members of the ad hoc committee have committed to consent to the forbearance.
As of 5:00 p.m. on March 16, 2009, consents had been validly delivered (and not validly revoked) with respect to the following amounts of TRCLP Notes (click to make larger):
The minimum acceptance levels for each series of the TRCLP Notes are: 90% of the 3.625% Notes due 2009 and the 8% Notes due 2009; 75% of the 7.20% Notes due 2012, the 5.375% Notes due 2013 and the 6 3/4% Notes due 2013. Holders of TRCLP Notes who have previously validly delivered consents will continue to have the right to revoke their consents through the extended expiration date.Effectiveness of the forbearance under the 2006 Senior Credit Agreement will be conditioned on and subject to, among other things, the successful completion of the consent solicitation and effectiveness of the forbearance agreement relating to the TRCLP Notes.
“We are pleased that we have been able to obtain consents from the requisite lenders under our 2006 Senior Credit Agreement and with the positive reaction to the TRCLP bond consent solicitation,” said Adam Metz, chief executive officer. “Given this support, we feel it is appropriate to extend the expiration date for the consent solicitation in order to give bondholders more time to receive and review the consent solicitation materials and to consider this request.”
GGP INFORMATION
General Growth is a U.S. based, publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trust. The Company currently has an ownership interest in, or management responsibility for, more than 200 regional shopping malls in 44 states, as well as ownership in master planned community developments and commercial office buildings. The Company portfolio totals approximately 200 million square feet of retail space and includes over 24,000 retail stores nationwide. The Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol GGP.
Disclosure (“none” means no position):Long GGP
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