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PARMALAT SPA: Sells Football Club and Brand for EUR17.1 Million Enrico Bondi, the Extraordinary Commissioner for Parmalat S.p.A., has sold Parma FC, the Italian football club, for EUR4,500,000, and its club brand for EUR12,600,000, to Eventi Sportivi, The Financial Times reported. Tommaso Ghirardi, Parma's chairman, now controls 20% of Eventi Sportivi, The Financial Times said. Damas Srl is the main shareholder, and other investors include Banca Monte Parma, as well as Gabriella Pasotti and Brixia Incipit. Headquartered in Milan, Italy, Parmalat S.p.A. -- http://www.parmalat.net/ -- sells nameplate milk products that can be stored at room temperature for months. It also has about 40 brand product lines, which include yogurt, cheese, butter, cakes and cookies, breads, pizza, snack foods and vegetable sauces, soups and juices. The company's U.S. operations filed for chapter 11 protection on Feb. 24, 2004 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. Case No. 04-11139). Gary Holtzer, Esq., and Marcia L. Goldstein, Esq., at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, represent the Debtors. When the U.S. Debtors filed for bankruptcy protection, they reported more than $200 million in assets and debts. The U.S. Debtors emerged from bankruptcy on April 13, 2005. Parmalat S.p.A. and its Italian affiliates filed separate petitions for Extraordinary Administration before the Italian Ministry of Productive Activities and the Civil and Criminal District Court of the City of Parma, Italy on Dec. 24, 2003. Dr. Enrico Bondi was appointed Extraordinary Commissioner in each of the cases. The Parma Court has declared the units insolvent. On June 22, 2004, Dr. Bondi filed a Sec. 304 Petition, Case No. 04-14268, in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Parmalat has three financing arms: Dairy Holdings Ltd., Parmalat Capital Finance Ltd., and Food Holdings Ltd. Dairy Holdings and Food Holdings are Cayman Island special-purpose vehicles established by Parmalat S.p.A. The Finance Companies are under separate winding up petitions before the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands. Gordon I. MacRae and James Cleaver of Kroll (Cayman) Ltd. serve as Joint Provisional Liquidators in the cases. On Jan. 20, 2004, the Liquidators filed Sec. 304 petition, Case No. 04-10362, in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. In May 2006, the Cayman Island Court appointed Messrs. MacRae and Cleaver as Joint Official Liquidators. Gregory M. Petrick, Esq., at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, and Richard I. Janvey, Esq., at Janvey, Gordon, Herlands Randolph, represent the Finance Companies in the Sec. 304 case. The Honorable Robert D. Drain presides over the Parmalat Debtors' U.S. cases. On June 21, 2007, the U.S. Court Granted Parmalat Permanent Injunction. (Parmalat Bankruptcy News, Issue No. 97; Bankruptcy Creditors' Service, Inc., http://bankrupt.com/newsstand/ or 215/945-7000). |
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