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Seadrill Limited — Capital/Financing Update 2021
Feb 11, 2021
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Capital/Financing Update
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Seadrill New Finance Limited Announces Forbearance Agreement
Seadrill New Finance Limited Announces Forbearance Agreement
Hamilton, Bermuda, February 11, 2021 - Seadrill Limited ("Seadrill" or the
"Company") (OSE:SDRL, OTCQX:SDRLF) announces that Seadrill New Finance Limited
(the "Issuer"), a subsidiary of the Company incorporated in Bermuda in 2018 and
issuer of the 12.0% senior secured notes due 2025 (the "Notes"), has entered
into a forbearance agreement with certain holders of the Notes.
Pursuant to the forbearance agreement, the consenting creditors have agreed not
to exercise any enforcement rights with respect to the Issuer and any subsidiary
of the Issuer which is an obligor under the Notes to, or otherwise take actions
in respect of, certain events of default that may arise under the Notes as a
result of, amongst other things, the Issuer not making the semi-annual 4% cash
interest payment due to the senior secured noteholders on 15 January 2021 in
respect of their Notes and the filing of Chapter 11 cases in the Southern
District of Texas by the Company and certain of its consolidated subsidiaries
(excluding the Issuer and its consolidated subsidiaries), until and including
the earlier of 24 February 2021 and any termination of the forbearance
agreement.
The purpose of the forbearance agreement is to allow the Company, the Issuer and
its stakeholders (including the forbearing holders) time to seek to agree the
terms of a restructuring of the Notes in parallel with the commencement by the
Company and certain of its consolidated subsidiaries of their Chapter 11 cases.
Such a restructuring may involve the use of a court-supervised process.
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
This news release includes forward looking statements. Such statements are
generally not historical in nature, and specifically include statements about
the Company's plans, strategies, business prospects, changes and trends in its
business, the markets in which it operates and its restructuring efforts. These
statements are made based upon management's current plans, expectations,
assumptions and beliefs concerning future events impacting the Company and
therefore involve a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could
cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the
forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this news
release. Consequently, no forward-looking statement can be guaranteed. When
considering these forward-looking statements, you should keep in mind the risks
described from time to time in the Company's regulatory filings and periodical
reporting. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward looking
statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which such
statement is made or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. New
factors emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for the Company to
predict all of these factors. Further, the Company cannot assess the impact of
each such factor on its business or the extent to which any factor, or
combination of factors, may cause actual results to be materially different from
those contained in any forward looking statement.
This information is subject of the disclosure requirements pursuant to section 5
-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.
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