The Centre has filed an application with the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal for interim distribution of ₹16,200 crore as part of the ongoing resolution of Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Ltd.
The application, filed with the Delhi bench of NCLAT, seeks interim distribution of ₹10,950 crore cash and ₹5,250 crore of InvIT units by March 31, 2022.
The new board of IL&FS also passed a resolution for this on January 8 this year.
“…the need for interim distribution arises because considerable amount of distributable assets (that is, cash and InvIT units) is expected to be available with various IL&FS Group entities by March 31, 2022,” the application said.
Further, while the resolution process is at an advanced stage, a majority of the creditors are yet to be settled, it added.
“The final resolution of the remaining IL&FS Group entities is likely to take a significant amount of time,” the application said.
The new board will decide on the suitable time and amount for the interim distribution, it said. The board will also appoint two valuers to decide the average liquidation value of the relevant IL&FS Group entities as on October 15, 2018. It will appoint an independent third-party consultant to ascertain the value of the security interests of the secured creditors.
The resolution consultant, Alvarez and Marshall, will prepare the interim distribution calculation, which will be validated by the independent third-party consultant. This would be approved by the boards of the relevant IL&FS group entities and the holding company, which will then be authorised by the new board of IL&FS.
By March 31, 2022, it is estimated that 249 IL&FS group entities would have been resolved by way of sale, liquidation or closure or transfer to the InvIT in exchange of InvIT units, the application said. It is estimated that by the end of the fiscal year, debt of about ₹55,000 crore would have been resolved, it said. The remaining ₹6,000 crore of resolution is expected to take a significant amount of time.
The IL&FS group had liabilities of nearly ₹1 lakh crore as of October 2018.
Uday Kotak, Chairman of the board of IL&FS, had in November 2021 said that the new board and management of the troubled company had addressed debt of about ₹52,000 crore. In all it expects to resolve debt of about ₹61,000 crore.
Published on
February 08, 2022
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