GhostInTheMatrix
7 years ago
interesting, saw this:
Weighing on the sale is also a series of court challenges related to the resolution of Banco Espírito Santo. On Friday, Novo Banco had a partial win in one case involving an $835 million loan from Oak Finance Luxembourg SA, a vehicle arranged by Goldman Sachs Group Inc., to Banco Espírito Santo. When the lender collapsed, Bank of Portugal said it would move the loan to Novo Banco, but it later backtracked and said the loan belonged to the βbad bank.β
http://www.wsj.com/articles/portugal-receives-bids-for-novo-banco-sa-1478291452
OTCRIDER
8 years ago
BANCO ESPÍRITO SANTO, S.A.
RELEASE CONCERNING THE WITHDRAWAL OF BESβ BANKING AUTHORISATION
Pursuant to and for the purposes of article 1, item d), of CMVMβs regulation no. 5/2008, Banco Espírito Santo, S.A. (βBESβ) informs that the European Central Bank notified BES,
on the 13th of July of 2016, of its decision to withdraw BES license for the pursuit of banking activity.
The decision to withdraw BESβ authorisation involves the dissolution and commencement of the liquidation of the bank, in line with numbers 1 and 2 of article 5 of Decree-Law no. 199/2006, of August 14, and the withdrawal of the authorisation produces the effects of the declaration of insolvency.
The next steps are as follows:
(i) Banco de Portugal shall request, under the applicable law, before the competent court, the commencement of BESβ judicial liquidation, and that request will be forwarded together with Banco de Portugalβs proposal for the appointment of a judicial liquidator or a liquidation committee, to be appointed by the judge;
(ii) The judge will then issue its order for the judicial liquidation to proceed and appoints the liquidator or the liquidation committee;
(iii) Only after the judgeβs order will the subsequent steps of the judicial liquidation proceeding ensue, which will be governed by the provisions of Decree-Law no. 199/2006, of August 14 and, subsidiarily, by the provisions of the Portuguese Insolvency and Corporate Recovery Code.
http://www.bes.pt/Comunicados/20160719%20fsd177303_uk.pdf
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