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iHeart

December 2015 · US · Dropdown · Litigation / Bankruptcy / Additional LME

Moved 100 million shares, worth $516 million, to an unrestricted subsidiary using the investment permissions in its bonds; the subsidiary then bought back iHeart's bonds at a deep discount. A Texas court upheld the transaction in Franklin Advisers v iHeart.

Discussed in Liability Management Exercises: Law and Practice at ¶¶ 2.91, 2.103, 2.145, 2.151–2.153, 5.92.