Apollo Global Management has sold the term loan it held for Yellow Corp. and has withdrawn its proposal for bankruptcy financing, according to Financial Times.
Miami-based hedge fund Citadel has acquired Yellow’s $485 million debt from Apollo and other lenders. A Tuesday Delaware bankruptcy court filing showed counsel representing Citadel Credit Master Fund would depose representatives from Yellow on Wednesday regarding post-petition financing.
Apollo’s (NYSE: APO) debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing package was touted in bankruptcy filings as the only viable offer made to the less-than-truckload carrier in the days leading up to its Chapter 11 petition. The $142.5 million deal was expected to provide the company with the funds necessary to market and sell off its terminals and equipment.
The deal would have also provided the private equity firm with an improved lien position among secured creditors. It held first-lien position on the term loan as well as a better lien position than the U.S. Treasury, which is due $737 million from a 2020 COVID relief loan to the carrier.
However, representation for Yellow said last week that better offers came forward following the bankruptcy petition and that Apollo’s terms were too onerous. That deal carried a 17% interest rate, a $32 million closing fee and a 90-day window to liquidate the assets.
The frontrunners at the time included LTL carrier Estes Express Lines and Boston hedge fund MFN Partners, which acquired a 40% stake in Yellow’s stock in July. However, Yellow attorney Pat Nash said at a Friday hearing there had been “a number of inbounds from other parties” willing to provide new money in a junior position to existing creditors.
A Tuesday hearing, which could have potentially revealed the new DIP lender, was pushed backed to Thursday.
In recent days, company insiders have been selling restricted and other shares of Yellow ahead of the stock’s delisting on Wednesday.
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Ron
Yellow closed without warning , WARN ACT . Teamsters get the blame according yellow. I know this has all been said in multiple articles, they blew money we as workers gave them and governments money also, but no explanation from their part . Maybe just maybe they bought to many other trucking companies as part of their mismanagement at the top. If they would have ran the company like Roadway did, we wouldn’t be out of job, had our full wages and benefits. One more thing, pay us what we earned, PAY US OUR VACATION TIME!!
Brian J Gauer
What about the Employee’s? Company is still holding funds owed. How about the WARN Act? How about YELLOW renigging on benefit payments leaving employees without insurance approx 2 weeks before closing. More before bankruptcy. They did not decide the BR in a day. Corrupt MGMT. Thieves.
Spiffy
Why doesn’t O’Brien and the union Einstein’s step up and try to run it with their work rules etc. I laugh at their superior intellect
Zud
Apollo cashed out Las Vegas style we’re good! Everyone else is wanting the real estate sells
Dennis Stout
Pay us our vacation time
cfdockman
Big boys looking to make big money. While the worker gets the shaft.Only in America.