A group of Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico creditors have filed an amended complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico challenging the constitutionality of certain aspects of the Puerto Rico Emergency Moratorium and Financial Rehabilitation Act, and certain related executive orders.
After nearly a year of litigation, the Center for Investigative Journalism on Thursday confirmed another legal victory in its battle against the Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico to gain access to information about the hedge funds that hold the Commonwealth’s public debt.
Although the government of Puerto Rico paid its General Obligation bonds and guaranteed debt due May 1, which totaled about $103 million, Moody’s Investors Service believes it will enter into an eventual default of these bonds in the absence of a federal stay on litigation.
A group of Puerto Rican credit unions identifying themselves at the “G25” said Thursday the preliminary restructuring agreement announced by the Government Development Bank and hedge funds this week is unfavorable to local bondholders who will see losses as a result.
A liquidation of the Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico could be a messy proceeding, because there is no precedent for determining how debt responsibilities and assets would be assigned, Economist and Professor Antonio Fernós-Sagebien predicted Wednesday.
The Puerto Rico government’s decision to default on a portion of the $470 million in debt service payments due Monday drew reactions from politicians, analysts and creditors alike, who both urged Congress to act on the Commonwealth’s behalf and predicted long court battles ahead.
Calling on Congress to take swift action to create a debt restructuring mechanism and saying resources are “scarce,” Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro García-Padilla confirmed Sunday he has ordered a moratorium on the debt service payments due from the Government Development Bank.
The Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI, as it is known for its initials in Spanish) scored a legal victory in its fight against the government for access to information on the identity of Puerto Rico’s bondholders.
Two Government Development Bank board members are stepping down from their posts, saying, among other things, that the recently approved Puerto Rico Emergency Moratorium and Financial Rehabilitation has restricted the scope of their authority to make important decisions.
A little more than a week after filing a motion for a temporary restraining order (“TRO”) against the Government Development Bank, a group of creditors owning Puerto Rico bonds confirmed Wednesday they have withdrawn their request.
The Puerto Rico government’s decision to enact a debt moratorium and declare a state of emergency at the Government Development Bank prompted ratings agency S&P to downgrade the agency and Moody’s to warn of looming creditor lawsuits.
A group of holders of outstanding bonds of the Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico Monday seeking to enjoin certain transfers of assets by GDB they claim are prohibited under Puerto Rico law.
Following Sunday’s confirmation that Puerto Rico Treasury Secretary Juan Zaragoza had stepped down from his post at the Government Development Bank’s board of directors, to “avoid a conflict of interest,” a group of bi-partisan lawmakers demanded transparency from the troubled public agency.
Puerto Rico will be $923 million in the hole by summer if it meets all of its upcoming obligations, including debt service payments and payments to suppliers, as the fiscal crisis tightens its grip on the island’s finances.
Drops in electric power generation, gasoline consumption and cement sales kept Puerto Rico’s economic activity in negative territory in November, according to the Government Development Bank’s Economic Activity Index (GDB-EAI) released Tuesday.
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