{"id":53886,"date":"2019-03-13T09:58:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T09:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=53886"},"modified":"2019-03-13T09:58:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T09:58:09","slug":"interserve-coltrane-restructuring-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/interserve-coltrane-restructuring-proposal\/53886\/","title":{"rendered":"Interserve in final restructuring discussions with Coltrane"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.interserve.com\/\">Interserve<\/a> has confirmed that it is in final discussions with shareholder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coltraneam.com\/\">Coltrane<\/a> to establish a basis on which the company would support its restructuring proposal<\/h2>\n<p>The last-ditch attempt by Interserve comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/top-interserve-shareholder-warns-on-asset-sales-11663029\"><em>Sky News <\/em><\/a>revealed that Coltrane had told the company\u2019s administrator that it may seek to buy its assets.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>Sky News<\/em>, Coltrane Asset Management has hired Enyo Law, a specialist disputes firm, to represent it ahead of a final vote on Friday (15 March) that will determine whether Interserve can secure a solvent restructuring.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/?sunday\"><em>Sunday Times<\/em><\/a> also reported at the weekend (9 March) that Coltrane was preparing legal action against the outsourcer&#8217;s directors.<\/p>\n<p>In response to <em>Sky News\u2019<\/em> claims, Interserve has said it is in discussions with Coltrane and its lenders to establish the basis on which Coltrane would support the company&#8217;s restructuring proposal.<\/p>\n<p>The statement also read: \u201cAlthough the board is seeking to improve the position of all shareholders, there is no certainty that it will be able to do so in the very limited time available.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only proposal which is currently capable of being implemented is the recommended <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/interserve-shareholder-restructuring\/53417\/\">Deleveraging Plan<\/a> through which, inter alia, shareholders will retain 5% of the equity of the restructured Interserve with the ability to acquire further equity through the open offer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coltrane holds a stake of around 27% and is allegedly seeking to oust most of Interserve&#8217;s board. <em>Sky News <\/em>also revealed it intends to vote against the restructuring proposal without a substantial improvement to the existing plan.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interserve has confirmed that it is in final discussions with shareholder Coltrane to establish a basis on which the company would support its restructuring proposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[676,283,13889],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-construction","8":"tag-finance","9":"tag-tilbury-douglas"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Interserve in final restructuring discussions with Coltrane<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Interserve has confirmed that it is in discussions with shareholder Coltrane to find a basis on which the firm would support its restructuring proposal\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/interserve-coltrane-restructuring-proposal\/53886\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Interserve in final discussions with Coltrane regarding restructuring proposal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Interserve has confirmed that it is in final discussions with shareholder Coltrane to establish a basis on which the company would support its restructuring proposal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/interserve-coltrane-restructuring-proposal\/53886\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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