Chinese developer Evergrande’s unit ordered to pay out $1.1 billion

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Struggling developer China Evergrande Group mentioned on Sunday that one among its subsidiaries, Evergrande Group (Nanchang) Co, Ltd, had been ordered to pay a guarantor 7.3 billion yuan ($1.08 billion) for failing to honour its debt obligations.

In July 2021, the guarantor, who was not named within the assertion, offered a assure for the borrowings of sure entities managed by Evergrande, the corporate mentioned in a press release to the Hong Kong inventory alternate.

Nanchang offered counter-guarantees within the type of a pledge of a complete of 1.3 billion shares that it held in Shengjing Financial institution Co., Ltd.

“Because the debtors did not repay the loans, the applicant carried out its obligations below the assure and claimed towards the subsidiary below the pledge,” Evergrande mentioned in a press release.

The ruling “is that the guarantor has the precedence to obtain compensation from the sale of the shares” and the “scope covers the quantity paid by the applicant (7.3 billion yuan).”

Evergrande has mentioned it was promoting its Hong Kong headquarters through tendering course of, a supply with direct information advised Reuters on Thursday. [L1N2Z90FQ]

($1 = 6.7433 Chinese language yuan renminbi)

(Reporting by Farah Grasp; Modifying by Tomasz Janowski)