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Thames Water has received preliminary equity offers from parties who include one of the largest infrastructure investors in the United States and an asset investor based in London.
The Treed public service, which serves 16 million households in London and the surrounding area and groaned nearly 20 billion pounds Sterling, said Tuesday That he had “received proposals from six parties with regard to the increase in actions” through which he seeks to increase billions of pounds to avoid collapse.
Among the six interesting parties in the supply of new equity equity to the Thames are the American investment company KKR, the investor of the infrastructure of Hong Kong CKI, the Hedge Fund Covalis Capital and Castle Water, a commercial water service provider in London. These four parties are the most involved in the process, according to several people familiar with the issue.
The other bidders are Stonepeak, an American infrastructure investor who manages more than $ 70 billion in assets, and Fitzwalter Capital, a London -based fund that focuses on investment in a distress debt.
These preliminary offers are not binding and require no firm commitment, some parts choosing to stay in the process, even if they consider a possible business offer as unlikely.
“Everyone suspends the hoop when they see everything that is good,” said a person close to the process.
Two people familiar with the case said Stonepeak was less interested in buying the Thames than KKR and CKI, the latter, which submitted a proposal indicating that it Inject 7 billion pounds sterling in the almost insolvent utility.
Fitzwalter, meanwhile, was the unnamed party mentioned by Thames water As to subject a proposal “for minority equity, intended to associate investors and has not established financial measures”.
Stonepeak and Fitzwalter refused to comment.
Fitzwalter has some of the class B obligations of Thames Water class B, which could undergo heavy losses under the loan agreement of 3 billion pounds sterling that public service agreed with higher rank creditors.
Covônis also has some of these junior obligations. The company based in London, which focuses on investment in the infrastructure assets, has was very critical The way Thames Water and his Rothschild & Co advisor managed the actions elevation process.
Thames Water is dangerously low in cash and tries to request the approval of bond holders to access money from his rescue loan of 3 billion pounds sterling above all Additional potential a legal dispute at the controversial package.
Public service said that it hoped to agree on the terms of an increase on actions by the end of June while it seeks to reverse its finances.
In addition to the six bidders in equity, class A class A bonds of the utility indicated that they were preparing an offer of safeguard creditor if the increase in shares fails. These bond holders include American funds such as Elliott management and Pimco.
Thames Water said on Tuesday that some of the offers also offered creditors the opportunity to invest in public service in exchange for a stay at the value of their debt.
Thames Water refused to comment.
