MGM Creditors Push for Auction

MGM Creditors Push for Auction

Published: November 11, 2009 @ 6:35 pm
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By BusinessWeek

It may not be long before the troubled MGM studio is forced by its creditors to seek a buyer. That’s the word coming out of a Nov. 4 meeting between MGM CEO Stephen Cooper and the debt-hobbled film company’s 140-member creditor committee.

According to one source with knowledge of the meeting, the creditor group turned thumbs down on Cooper's proposal to convert the studio’s $3.7 billion debt into equity as part of a restructuring plan to keep the studio out of bankruptcy.

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Tags: company, Deal Central, MGM, Movies, Stephen Cooper, Television
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