Pimco, Baupost Quit CIT Bond Committee
NEW YORK (
) -- Pacific Investment Management and Baupost, two of six lenders that bailed out
CIT Group
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in July, have quit a key steering committee of bondholders, according to reports.
A
Bloomberg
report says Pimco and Baupost left the group a month ago, but as news leaked into the market Wednesday it apparently caused a CIT bond issue due Nov. 3 to fall 4 cents on the dollar to 67 cents. CIT's equity was down slightly in after-hours trading Wednesday to $1.14.
CIT has presented an
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in an attempt to cut nearly $6 billion in debt before the end of the month. If not enough bondholders accept the offer, CIT will likely seek protection from its creditors. CIT already has prepared a prepackaged bankruptcy filing, which it unveiled last week at the same time it made the offer to bondholders.
CIT has been unable to access debt markets after the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. declined to guarantee its debt, as it did for larger lenders like
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,
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and
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.
-- Written by Dan Freed in New York.
