REG - Bens Creek Group PLC - Update on the Group’s Chapter 11 cases

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RNS Number : 6008L  Bens Creek Group PLC  23 April 2024

 

23 April 2024

Bens Creek Group plc

("Bens Creek", the "Company" or the "Group")

 

Update on the Group's Chapter 11 cases

 

Further to the Company's announcement released on 15 April 2024 (the "Previous
Announcement"), Bens Creek Group plc (AIM:BEN), the owner of a metallurgical
coal mine in North America supplying the steel industry, announces that
further filings have been lodged with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the
Southern District of West Virginia (the "Court") following the commencement of
the Chapter 11 process outlined in the Previous Announcement (the "Chapter 11
Process").

 

As is usual in Chapter 11 cases, the Chapter 11 Companies have entered into a
term sheet for a debtor-in-possession financing ("DIP") facility. Avani, the
Company's largest shareholder, has filed a DIP term sheet with the Court for
up to $14.5 million (the "Avani DIP Facility"). The Avani DIP Facility term
sheet is now binding on Avani but is not binding on the Chapter 11 Companies
until the Court binds the Chapter 11 Companies.

 

A Court hearing to consider the  Avani DIP Facility is now expected to be
held by the end of April 2024 (the "Court Hearing").

 

Between now and the Court Hearing, other alternative DIP financing facilities
can be put forward to the Court and the Court will, at the Court Hearing,
consider the most appropriate DIP facility for the Chapter 11 Companies. The
Court will require a DIP facility to be in place before it approves the
Chapter 11 Process. There can be no guarantee that the Avani DIP Facility will
be approved by the Court.

 

Should the Court approve the Chapter 11 Companies entering into the Avani DIP
Facility this will constitute a related party transaction pursuant to Rule 13
of the AIM Rules for Companies and a further announcement will be made in this
regard at the appropriate time.

 

Filings lodged at the Court can be accessed here:
https://ecf.wvsb.uscourts.gov/
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.

 

Capitalised terms not defined in this announcement shall have the meaning
given to them in the Previous Announcement unless the context otherwise
demands.

 

Further announcements will be made at the appropriate time.

 

For further information please contact:

Bens Creek Group plc
                                                                                           +44
(0) 204 558 2300

Adam Wilson, CEO

Peter Shea, Chief of Staff

 

Allenby Capital Limited (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker)
       +44 (0) 203 328 5656

Nick Athanas / Nick Naylor / George Payne (Corporate Finance)

Kelly Gardiner / Guy McDougall (Sales and Corporate Broking)

 

WH Ireland Limited (Joint Broker)

Harry Ansell / Katy Mitchell
                                                                                 +44
(0) 207 220 1666

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