Bondoro Insights: Weekly Docket Update

This Week's Key Filings

Searles Valley Minerals Inc.

• Case Summary
  • Searles Valley Minerals filed for Chapter 11 following lingering operational damage from the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes and a prolonged soda ash market downturn — driven by global oversupply, pricing pressure, and softening demand — that caused mounting operating losses and a liquidity shortfall. The Debtors are pursuing an in-court section 363 sale process backed by a $20 million junior DIP facility from immediate parent Karnavati Holdings, Inc., a $20 million liquidity arrangement with TATA Chemicals North America Inc., and consensual use of HSBC's cash collateral.
• DIP Terms
  • Searles Valley Minerals filed a motion seeking interim approval of a $20 million junior-secured, all-new-money DIP term loan from corporate parent Karnavati Holdings—structured as a $7 million initial advance on entry of the interim order ahead of a $13 million tranche conditioned on a final order—that bears 11% PIK interest, matures December 1, 2026, and funds a sale process required to consummate within 90 days, while prepetition secured lender HSBC consents to the use of cash collateral and continued access to a $30 million receivables facility against replacement liens and superpriority claims.
• Bidding Procedures Summary
  • Searles Valley Minerals filed a motion to approve bidding procedures for a Section 363 sale of certain or all of its critical-minerals assets, seeking authority to designate one or more stalking horse bidders with bid protections capped at 3% of the cash portion of the purchase price while reserving credit bid rights for its DIP and prepetition secured lenders, ahead of an Aug. 6 bid deadline and Aug. 13 auction.

Hallmark Financial Services, Inc.

• Case Summary
  • Hallmark Financial Services has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy following a $25 million-to-$35 million DARAG reinsurance arbitration loss, an A.M. Best ratings downgrade, and a debt-to-capital covenant breach that — by barring payment of deferred interest — led to a missed payment, an event of default, and Hildene's acceleration of the senior unsecured notes and the 2035 junior subordinated notes. With roughly $133.8 million in funded debt, the Debtor is pursuing a dual-track prepackaged plan that pairs a go-shop sale process (against an approximately $51.2 million floor) with a backstop restructuring transaction supported by majority noteholder Hildene under a restructuring support agreement, and requires no DIP financing given the holding company's unencumbered cash.
• Bidding Procedures Summary
  • Hallmark Financial Services filed a motion to approve bidding procedures governing a marketing process for an alternative restructuring transaction involving the sale of its equity interests in its subsidiaries (a property and casualty insurance group) and other non-cash assets, designating Hildene Capital Management as the stalking horse bidder with the approximately $52.1 million Initial Plan Value assigned to the Hildene restructuring transaction serving as the floor bid under a dual-track RSA toggle structure, and proposing a July 30 bid deadline and Aug. 4 auction with all competing bids required to be payable in cash in full.
• Plan Terms
  • Hallmark Financial Services' prepackaged Chapter 11 plan, premised on a restructuring support agreement with Hildene, toggles between a Hildene-led debt-for-equity recapitalization and a court-supervised auction of its insurance subsidiaries and other non-cash assets for all-cash consideration exceeding the Initial Plan Value, whereby under the sponsor transaction the $50 million of senior unsecured notes are exchanged for new 10% PIK convertible preferred equity held by Hildene and up to $14 million of new 6.25% senior unsecured notes due 2032 for other holders, while holders of the $56.7 million in 2035 and 2037 junior subordinated debt securities receive either 10% in cash or, for Hildene-affiliated holders accepting less favorable treatment, 100% of the reorganized debtor's new common equity channeled through Hildene Hallmark Holdings.

SIMAD Holdings Ltd.

• Case Summary
  • SIMAD Holdings has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy amid a liquidity crisis triggered by its default on approximately $214 million in Tel Aviv-listed bonds and over $100 million in merchant cash advance loans against a roughly $344 million secured debt load, pursuing an expedited financing or sale of its 30 summer camps to ensure the season opens uninterrupted, backed by expressions of interest from numerous prospective transaction partners.

Sleep Number Corporation

• Case Summary
  • Sleep Number has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy amid a historic mattress industry recession, post-pandemic over-expansion of its cost structure and debt, and mounting tariff and inflationary pressures, pursuing a going-concern sale of substantially all of its assets backed by a $415 million stalking horse bid from Sleep Country and up to $65 million in new-money DIP financing from its existing lender group.
• Bidding Procedures / APA Summary
  • Sleep Number filed a motion to establish bidding procedures for a sale of substantially all assets, designating SNBR Inc., an affiliate of Sleep Country Canada, as the stalking horse bidder under a $415 million cash asset purchase agreement protected by a 3% break-up fee and up to $4 million in expense reimbursement, ahead of a July 8 bid deadline, July 13 auction, and July 15 sale hearing.
• DIP Terms
  • Sleep Number obtained interim approval for a $260 million U.S. Bank-administered priming DIP facility that pairs up to $65 million of new-money superpriority term loans—$50 million of which is available upon entry of the interim order—against a $195 million rollup of prepetition debt converted on a 3:1 basis, priced at SOFR+8% and maturing September 15, 2026.

Systematic Audio, LLC

• Case Summary
  • Systematic Audio has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy following events of default by two secured lenders asserting approximately $25 million in claims and an approximately $21.5 million adverse jury verdict in the Soleymani litigation that, upon entry of judgment, threatened a springing lien on its primary 180,000-square-foot North Carolina manufacturing facility, and is pursuing a value-maximizing reorganization or sale backed by the consensual use of cash collateral and/or debtor-in-possession financing.

Armadillo Distribution Enterprises, Inc.

• Case Summary
  • Armadillo Distribution Enterprises filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy following alleged fraud and fiduciary breaches by former CEO Evan Rubinson—including the inflation of financial statements that allegedly saddled the company with excess debt—amid disputed and allegedly retaliatory foreclosure litigation with lender Valley National Bank, whose asserted secured claims and liens the Debtors dispute. The Debtors seek to restructure their secured indebtedness, pursue estate causes of action against former management, and reorganize around their five-brand guitar and percussion portfolio, supported by the proposed use of cash collateral and by Pamela Keris-Rubinson, who controls the Debtors as CEO and trustee of the owning trusts.

West Marine, Inc.

• Bidding Procedures Summary
  • West Marine obtained approval of bidding procedures to sell all or substantially all of its assets, authorizing the designation of one or more stalking horse bidders with bid protections capped at 3% of the cash purchase price ahead of a June 26 bid deadline and June 29 auction, with the sale process structured as a toggle from a baseline RSA-backed recapitalization that would equitize term loan claims into 100% of reorganized equity, subject to secured lenders' rights to credit bid their claims.

Thrill Intermediate LLC

• Plan Terms
  • Thrill Intermediate's joint plan of reorganization and liquidation centers on a debt-for-equity swap whereby the Class 1 lenders, owed roughly $85.6 million, exchange $1.00 of their claim for 100% of the equity in reorganized Thrill Holdings, with Reorganized Thrill Holdings assuming about $41.5 million of the remaining credit-facility obligations, while the lenders' deficiency claim and the $53.5 million in mezzanine noteholder claims are channeled into a litigation trust whose waterfall reimburses the lenders (for amounts funded into the trust budget) before any pro rata distribution, all facilitated by a Rule 9019 settlement that redirects MTV's Ridiculousness production payments to the reorganized parent and funds a $150,000 wind-down of the liquidating debtors.

Glenwood Caverns Holdings LLC

• Plan Terms
  • Glenwood Caverns' plan centers on a going-concern sale of its amusement park to Glenwood Mountain LLC, a newly formed stalking horse owned by distressed investor Jeff Crivello, for $1 million in cash plus assumption (as modified) of Community Banks of Colorado's roughly $12.7 million secured claim, subject to higher bids at a July 24, 2026 auction. The disputed Estifanos judgment creditor (Class 2) is projected to recover about 9.5% — approximately $4.4 million in net sale proceeds plus roughly $7 million in previously tendered insurance — with any additional recovery to come from a separately funded $100,000 litigation trust pursuing bad-faith claims against the Debtor's former carrier, NOVA Casualty. General unsecured creditors (Class 3) receive 10% in cash, and GCAP Holdco's existing equity is cancelled.

Buckingham Senior Living Community, Inc.

• Plan Terms
  • Buckingham Senior Living Community's Chapter 11 plan of liquidation is built on the completed Section 363 sale of substantially all assets to Focus Healthcare Partners affiliate Focus SH Acquisitions LLC for $116.4 million in cash consideration. On account of the secured bondholder claims, the bond trustee recovers $95.6 million in net sale proceeds plus accrued interest (together with the UMB Allocation and the proceeds of remaining assets not sold in the sale), and the DIP facility is repaid in full ahead of the effective date. General unsecured creditors instead recover through a GUC Trust holding the GUC Allocation — roughly $7.4 million escrowed for unsecured creditors under an auction settlement that allocated the net incremental value (gross of $15.25 million) 50/50 between the bond trustee and the creditors' committee — plus the net proceeds of retained causes of action, with a $4.3 million Trustee Winddown Reserve funding the wind-down.

Freedom Forever LLC

• Bidding Procedures Summary
  • Freedom Forever filed a motion to establish bidding procedures for a sale of any and all or substantially all of its assets or a reorganization through a chapter 11 plan, proposing an Aug. 5 bid deadline and a potential Aug. 10 auction, and reserving discretion to designate one or more stalking horse bidders and, if it elects to offer bid protections (a break-up fee and expense reimbursement), to disclose them in a Notice of Stalking Horse Bidder due July 22

Bitcoin Depot Inc.

• Bidding Procedures Summary
  • Bitcoin Depot obtained approval of bidding procedures to sell all or substantially all of its assets through one or more sale transactions, deeming its term loan secured parties, NFS, and VFS qualified bidders with section 363(k) credit-bid rights, and setting a June 22 bid deadline ahead of a June 23 auction and July 2 sale hearing, with a parallel Canadian sale order to be sought under the CCAA.

Goldenpeaks Poland Holding Limited

• DIP Terms
  • GoldenPeaks Poland obtained interim approval for a $162.8 million junior secured superpriority DIP facility provided by funds and accounts managed by Brookfield Asset Management (with a Brookfield affiliate as administrative and collateral agent), structured across a Tranche 1 facility comprising up to $117.7 million of new-money loans plus a $12.1 million cashless roll-up of prepetition incremental debt (priced at 13% PIK interest) and a $33.0 million new-money Tranche 2 (priced at 12.5% PIK interest), with the tranches subject to minimum returns of 1.75x and 1.50x MOIC, respectively, and the facility maturing on the earliest of several events, including three months from closing.

John Fitzgibbon Memorial Hospital, Inc.

• DIP Terms
  • John Fitzgibbon Memorial Hospital and Fitzgibbon Health Services obtained interim approval for a priming super-priority DIP facility from UMB Bank, N.A., as successor trustee and DIP Lender, that pairs up to $4 million in new-money loans (with a $2 million initial draw) against a roughly 2:1 roll-up of the outstanding obligations under the hospital's Series 2010 and 2016 health facilities revenue bonds, carrying 8.25% PIK interest and a 2% exit fee, to fund operations through a Section 363 sale of substantially all assets to Strawberry Fields REIT targeted for consummation by August 31, 2026 ahead of a November 30, 2026 maturity.

Simply Interior Homes, LLC

• DIP Terms
  • Simply Interior Homes obtained interim approval for a $15 million superpriority asset-based DIP facility from Great Rock Capital that pairs $5 million of new-money revolving commitments with a second-out roll-up of prepetition obligations at a 3:1 ratio capped at $10 million, priced at Term SOFR plus 7.50% cash and requiring a plan effective date by September 21, 2026.

SiFi Networks America, LLC

• DIP Terms
  • SiFi Networks America obtained interim approval for a $3.13 million new-money superpriority priming DIP facility from ArcLink Fiber LLC — its prepetition secured noteholder, now also serving as DIP lender — under which $1.135 million of new money is available on the interim order and the balance on the final order. The facility is accompanied by a separate, roughly $2.2 million cashless roll-up of ArcLink's prepetition secured notes (a $1.135 million Interim Roll-Up plus a $1,088,039 Final Roll-Up), bears 10% per annum interest, and requires entry of a final order within 27 days and entry of an order approving a sale of substantially all assets within 54 days of the June 5, 2026 petition date.

White Rock Medical Center, LLC

• DIP Terms
  • White Rock Medical Center obtained interim approval to incur up to $1 million of postpetition financing under a Section 364(c)(1) superpriority DIP facility to fund continued hospital operations and patient care, with the DIP liens subordinated to the prepetition interests of Pipeline Health Systems Holdings and SRC Hospital Investments I, a carve-out capping Chapter 7 trustee fees at $25,000, and a final hearing set for June 24, 2026.

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