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(回答先: 米ハリバートンの子会社が破産法を申請 ［読売新聞］【損害賠償逃れの“偽装倒産”：イラク関連の受注は無関係（笑）】 投稿者 あっしら 日時 2003 年 12 月 17 日 18:43:39)
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restructuring-information website for the proposed prepackaged chapter 11 reorganization of DII Industries, LLC, Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc.
http://www.dresser-kbr-prepack.com/
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4003989
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Halliburton Units File for Bankruptcy
Tue December 16, 2003 05:30 PM ET
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Halliburton Co. (HAL.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday said two of its units filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as part of a long-awaited, $4.3 billion settlement to hundreds of thousands of asbestos claims against the company.
Houston-based Halliburton, once headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, is not included in the bankruptcy filings, nor are its energy services group and the government services unit, which is providing support services to the U.S. military in Iraq.
The units in the prepackaged bankruptcy filings in a Pittsburgh court are DII Industries and engineering unit Kellogg Brown & Root. They will continue normal operations while in Chapter 11.
The bulk of the claims came from employees who worked on industrial furnaces made by DII prior to Halliburton's purchase of the company in the late 1990s when Cheney was chief executive of Halliburton.
The bankruptcies have been expected for a year as Halliburton, the No. 2 oilfield services company in the world, negotiated details of a plan to settle hundreds of thousands of claims by workers who say they were injured by cancer-causing asbestos and silica.
The deal, if approved by the bankruptcy court, should absolve Halliburton of all existing and future claims.
Last week, Halliburton said that 97 percent of the 370,000 asbestos claimants and 99 percent of the 21,000 silica claimants voted to accept the proposed bankruptcy plan, paving the way for Tuesday's filing.
Halliburton will pay $2.78 billion in cash and contribute 59.5 million shares of its stock, currently worth about $1.5 billion, to a trust fund to compensate all current and future victims.
Halliburton will take a $1 billion pretax charge in the fourth quarter for the settlement. That works out to $2.29 a share after taxes, the company said.
The purpose of the bankruptcy filing by DII and KBR units was to contain the parent company's liability to asbestos and silica claims.
The bankruptcy filing prompted Moody's Investors Service to affirm its Baa2 senior secured ratings on Halliburton and its DII subsidiary, with a positive outlook. The decision ended a review begun last year when Halliburton announced the proposed settlement.
Credit rating agency Standard and Poor's on Tuesday affirmed its "BBB" rating, its second-lowest investment grade, on Halliburton. The rating had been on review for downgrade, but S&P changed it to "developing" pending the court's final decision. That means it could be cut, raised or affirmed.
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