{"id":20660,"date":"2012-12-20T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=20660"},"modified":"2012-12-20T21:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T01:59:00","slug":"ylo-delisted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=20660","title":{"rendered":"YLO Delisted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yellow Media Limited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ypg.com\/en\/newsroom\/596-yellow-media-completes-recapitalization\">has announced<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>that its previously announced recapitalization (the &#8220;Recapitalization&#8221;) has been implemented and is now effective.<\/p>\n<p> Pursuant to the Recapitalization, Yellow Media Inc.&#8217;s former securities and all entitlements relating thereto have been exchanged and cancelled for, as applicable, cash, new common shares (TSX: Y) and warrants (TSX: Y.WT) of Yellow Media Limited, the new public parent company resulting from the Recapitalization, and new senior secured notes and new senior subordinated exchangeable debentures (TSX: YPG. DB) of YPG Financing Inc., the entity previously named Yellow Media Inc. and now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yellow Media Limited.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Accordingly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iiroc.ca\/news\/Pages\/Halts-Resumptions.aspx\">trading in the company&#8217;s securities was halted<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The following issues have been halted by IIROC:<\/p>\n<p>Company: Yellow Media Inc.<\/p>\n<p>TSX Symbol: YLO (all issues)<\/p>\n<p>Reason: Pending Delisting<\/p>\n<p>Halt Time (ET): 8:58 AM ET<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>S&#038;P then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standardandpoors.com\/prot\/ratings\/articles\/en\/us\/?articleType=HTML&#038;assetID=1245345342830\">declared YLO in default<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2022Montreal-based media and marketing solutions provider Yellow Media Inc. (YMI) has implemented its amended debt recapitalization plan following necessary stakeholder and court approvals.\n<li>\u2022The recapitalization comprises the sub-par exchange of the company&#8217;s existing debt with cash, new debt, and shares of a recapitalized YMI (new YMI), and constitutes an event of default as per Standard &#038; Poor&#8217;s criteria.\n<li>\u2022Accordingly, we are lowering our long-term corporate credit rating on YMI<br \/>\nand its related entities to &#8216;D&#8217; (default) from &#8216;CC&#8217;.<\/p>\n<li>\u2022At the same time, we are lowering our issue-level rating on the company&#8217;s medium-term notes to &#8216;D&#8217; from &#8216;CC&#8217;, and lowering our ratings on the company&#8217;s convertible subordinated debentures outstanding to &#8216;D&#8217; from &#8216;C&#8217;. The recovery ratings on these debt obligations are unchanged.<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dbrs.com\/research\/253596\/dbrs-discontinues-the-ratings-of-yellow-media-inc.html\">DBRS discontinued the ratings<\/a>, which they had already declared defaulting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DBRS has today discontinued Yellow Media Inc.\u2019s (Yellow Media) Issuer Rating, Medium-Term Notes, Exchangeable Subordinated Debentures and Cumulative Preferred Shares ratings, all of which were at D. This action follows the successful implementation of Yellow Media\u2019s recapitalization on December 20, 2012.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The following issues were, but are no longer, tracked by HIMIPref&trade;: YLO.PR.A, YLO.PR.B, YLO.PR.C and YLO.PR.D.<\/p>\n<p>The reorganization was last discussed on PrefBlog when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=20529\">the effective date of December 20 was announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yellow Media Limited has announced: that its previously announced recapitalization (the &#8220;Recapitalization&#8221;) has been implemented and is now effective. Pursuant to the Recapitalization, Yellow Media Inc.&#8217;s former securities and all entitlements relating thereto have been &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-comments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}