Bondoro Insights: Weekly Docket Update

This Week's Key Filings

Meritage Hospitality Group Inc.

• Case Summary
  • Meritage Hospitality Group filed for Chapter 11 following record beef prices, an 8.3% same-store sales decline and a $23.1 million first-half net loss, expired lender and franchisor forbearances, and franchisor Quality Is Our Recipe's Sept. 16 notice purporting to terminate its franchise rights. The Company is pursuing continued portfolio optimization, strategic market sales, and a balance sheet recapitalization backed by proposed access to cash collateral from City National Bank, Old National Bank, and Union Bank.

Yardbird Group LLC

• Case Summary
  • Yardbird Group filed for Chapter 11 following debt-funded expansion, lasting COVID-19 effects, and divergent location performance that forced three restaurant closures, as well as a default and lender lawsuit over the matured CNB Main Street loan, on which approximately $8.4 million remains outstanding. The Company is pursuing a going-concern sale of substantially all assets to a credit-bidding stalking horse affiliate of their first-lien lenders backed by a $5.4 million DIP facility from those same lenders.
• DIP Terms
  • Yardbird Group filed a motion seeking interim approval of a $5.4 million superpriority priming DIP facility from prepetition lender Brightwood Capital SBIC III, with Brightwood Loan Services as agent, pairing $1.8 million of new money, $1 million of it available on an interim basis, with up to $3.6 million of cashless roll-up of prepetition term loans at a 2:1 ratio, priced at Term SOFR plus 12% payable in kind with a 1% floor, maturing 75 days after the petition date and requiring the debtors to seek approval of a stalking horse bid by the DIP lenders or their designee and to close the approved sale within 53 days.
• Bidding Procedures Summary
  • Yardbird Group filed a motion seeking approval of bidding procedures for a sale of substantially all of its assets, designating SH Acquisition as stalking horse bidder. SH Acquisition was formed by the DIP secured parties, and its sole member is Brightwood Loan Services, which serves as both DIP agent and prepetition agent. The stalking horse bid is a credit bid of all DIP obligations outstanding at closing plus the outstanding Brightwood prepetition obligations, whose stated principal totals roughly $13.3 million. Bid protections are limited to an expense reimbursement of up to $275,000, with no break-up fee and no deposit required. Any competing bid must repay the DIP obligations and the credit-bid Brightwood prepetition obligations in full in cash. The proposed timeline sets an Oct. 27 bid deadline, a Nov. 2 auction and a Nov. 9 sale hearing.

LifeCare 2.0, LLC

• Case Summary
  • LifeCare filed for Chapter 11 following post-COVID declines in long-term acute care census, the closure of three of its four hospitals, the loss of its working capital line, and roughly $10.4 million of Medicare overpayment obligations owed to CMS, its largest unsecured creditor. A judgment in excess of $5 million in favor of the former landlord of its Dallas hospital produced a receivership and a bank-account garnishment that forced a missed payroll and the temporary suspension of inpatient care, compounded by a state court injunction barring new admissions at its sole remaining Carrollton, Texas hospital. The Company intends to pursue a refinancing or recapitalization that may involve a Section 363 sale and a relocation to a "hospital-in-a-hospital" arrangement that management believes would reduce operating costs by several million dollars annually.

TIG Reaper LLC

• Case Summary
  • TIG Reaper filed for Chapter 11 following a dispute with Bank Midwest, which made $10 million in term and credit-line loans to TIG Reaper in 2024. Bank Midwest also separately financed 45 non-Debtor TIG Queso and Queso Time entities, which have consented to a receivership to liquidate their locations. Asserting that the Debtors' assets also secure the Queso debts, the bank accelerated the Debtors' loans and sought a receiver over the Debtors as well. According to the Debtors, they were current on those loans, and after news of the bank's actions reached potential buyers, an approximately $30 million offer for the business was cut nearly in half. The Debtors are seeking to reorganize around their open restaurants using cash collateral and a $0.2 million junior DIP loan from their principals, and have also sued Bank Midwest for a declaration that they are not liable for the Queso debts, along with damages.

Omnicare, LLC

• Plan Terms
  • Omnicare's confirmed hybrid plan of reorganization and liquidation centers on GenieRx Holdings' $250 million cash acquisition of substantially all operating assets plus assumed liabilities, with certain debtors reorganized and acquired by the buyer as going concerns while the remaining debtors sell their assets and dissolve under a plan administrator. After payment in full of the DIP claims under JMB Capital Partners Lending's $110 million facility, general unsecured creditors take distributable estate value ahead of both the DOJ's $952.7 million allowed False Claims Act claim, which is not subordinated but is deferred by agreement until general unsecured claims are paid in full or fully reserved, and CVS's more than $54 million of prepetition claims, which are subordinated behind every other allowed claim.

Air Baltic Corporation AS

• DIP Terms
  • Air Baltic obtained interim approval for a €350 million all-new-money senior secured superpriority priming DIP facility arranged by Strategic Value Partners, whose affiliated funds hold 62.86% of commitments, and administered by GLAS USA, with €140 million of the €175 million first tranche available on an interim basis and the €125 million and €50 million second and third tranches conditioned on entry of the final order and satisfaction of restructuring milestones, priced at 12-month Term SOFR plus 8%.

Braskem Idesa, S.A.P.I.

• DIP Terms
  • Braskem Idesa obtained final approval for an approximately $408.89 million superpriority priming DIP facility from prepetition working capital lender Braskem Netherlands, pairing $279 million of new-money delayed-draw term loans — $230 million funded on entry of the interim order and $49 million on the final order — with an approximately $129.89 million cashless, dollar-for-dollar roll-up that satisfies the lender's own prepetition working capital and secured PE obligations in full, while subjecting post-default enforcement to a 15-month standstill.

F-Star Socorro, L.P.

• Plan Terms
  • The Ritz Project debtors' Chapter 11 plan centers on a term sheet with prepetition construction lender RC PV Lender I LLC. All remaining assets vest in a plan trust for sale and distribution. The term sheet fixes the lender's secured claim at $570.3 million, treated as allowed but subject to reduction; designates its credit bid as the successful bid for the El Paso properties in exchange for a $90.0 million reduction in loan principal, subject to court approval; and channels villas sale proceeds to the lender — each subject to a clawback whose terms remain unset. The 215-room Ritz-Carlton, Paradise Valley will be sold post-confirmation through a court-approved Section 363 process, unless holders of parent equity interests first exercise an option to buy the hotel, its FF&E, and the undeveloped real estate for at least $570.0 million in cash plus adjustments, which would end the marketing process without an auction. The debtors' preserved claims against the lender pass to the trust, whose waterfall pays the lender's A interests ahead of the C interests issued on general unsecured claims.

Republic National Distributing Company, LLC

• APA Summary
  • Republic National Distributing obtained approval of a private sale of its control-state beverage brokerage business to Martignetti Companies entities. The consideration consists of $14.5 million in cash plus the estimated laid-in cost of saleable vendor-of-record inventory and the assumption of assumed liabilities. The sale proceeded without a postpetition auction after the court found that the debtors' prepetition marketing process afforded a full and fair opportunity for higher or better offers. The required DIP lenders consented to the sale. They and the required prepetition first lien lenders also waived the DIP and prepetition agents' right to credit bid, which the court found was a material inducement to the purchaser.

Vanderbilt Minerals, LLC

• Plan Terms
  • Vanderbilt Minerals' liquidating plan, co-proposed with the official committee of unsecured creditors, distributes the proceeds of an already-closed sale of substantially all assets to VM Buyer and an already-approved global settlement with affiliate R.T. Vanderbilt Holding, centering on a liquidation trust that permanently assumes all talc liability and takes the debtor's insurance rights, funded through a waterfall seeding a $1 million general unsecured recovery fund, an $80,000 convenience fund paying 90% to 100% on claims capped at $5,000, and a trust operating reserve of no less than $11 million, while preserving the pending appeals of the sale and settlement orders that the committee retains standing to prosecute after the effective date.

Diocese of Alexandria

• Plan Terms
  • The Diocese of Alexandria's second amended plan centers around a $0.5 million Settlement Payment to a new Plan Trust, payable in cash, real property at fair market value, or both. The payment rises if needed to match what unsecured creditors would receive in a liquidation, and the diocese may withdraw the plan if the court sets that figure above $1.5 million. The trust also takes the diocese's rights under insurance policies from 1972 through 2022 that may cover abuse claims. General unsecured claims, including abuse survivor claims, recover only from the trust: a pro rata share of the payment, plus insurance recoveries for covered claims. Survivors keep direct claims against other liable parties, which cannot seek contribution from the diocese and whose judgments are reduced by the diocese's share of fault.

Simply Interior Homes, LLC

• Plan Terms
  • Simply Interior Homes' Chapter 11 plan of liquidation winds down the home textiles wholesaler, which sponsor Centre Lane Partners carved out of Keeco, through a liquidating trust. The trust is funded by an SB360 Capital Partners-run inventory liquidation and by July 30 auction sales of two brands: Eclipse to YMF Carpets for $2.3 million plus royalties, and Historic Charleston to Beatrice Home Fashions for $40,000. A global settlement among the debtors, the creditors' committee and the DIP and prepetition secured parties channels distributable value through a four-tranche waterfall. The waterfall repays the DIP obligations in full, then pays up to $4.5 million to the prepetition lenders and up to $2 million to general unsecured creditors. Retained causes of action against non-released Centre Lane and Live Comfortably parties are carved out of the releases and preserved for prosecution by the trust.

White Rock Medical Center, LLC

• Plan Terms
  • White Rock Medical Center's second plan of reorganization pairs a sponsor-funded recapitalization of the hospital with a plan-administrator wind-down of the remaining debtors. The plan centers on White Rock Medical Holdings' $3.3 million contribution in exchange for 100% of the reorganized debtor's new equity. SRC Hospital Investments' $7.4 million allowed secured claim is repaid through a 5% sweep of gross revenues, calculated before any working capital reserve or landlord payments. General unsecured creditors share a $1.0 million pool carved out of the plan funding, enlarged by two supporting creditors' waived distributions. The reorganized debtor assumes its GMR ground and hospital leases against a $2.6 million cure, and existing equity is cancelled without distribution.

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