June 10th, 2009 by Bill Cawthon
To the Men and Women of the New Chrysler:
Today marks a new beginning for Chrysler and the North American automotive industry, as Chrysler Group LLC, a new company formed in alliance with Fiat Group, has completed its acquisition of substantially all of Chrysler LLC’s assets and will begin operations immediately.
It is my great privilege to [...]
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June 2nd, 2009 by Bill Cawthon
Chrysler has asked Judge Arthur Gonzalez to waive an automatic ten-day waiting period to allow the sale of its assets to NewCarCo Acquistions to proceed as quickly as possible and allow the new Fiat-led Chrysler Group LLC to commence operations.
“We are filing a request this afternoon to close the sale as early as Thursday afternoon,” [...]
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June 1st, 2009 by Bill Cawthon
Chrysler LLC today announced that the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, has approved its request to sell substantially all of its operations to Chrysler Group LLC, the new company formed in alliance with Fiat SpA.
“With this approval, the new Chrysler Group is created and can prepare to launch as a vibrant new [...]
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June 1st, 2009 by Bill Cawthon
Even as General Motors prepares to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Chrysler is a step closer to exiting it as Judge Arthur Gonzalez approved the sale of most of the automaker’s assets to a new company, Chrysler Group LLC, led by Fiat SpA and majority-owned by the United Auto Worker union’s health care trust. Senior secured [...]
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May 8th, 2009 by Bill Cawthon
The Chrysler Non-TARP Lenders Group has disbanded. The small group of creditors that had been objecting to Chrysler’s merger with Fiat and quick exit from bankruptcy has given up its challenge after rising defections and declining influence meant “it wasn’t sensible to proceed” in the words Glenn Kurtz of White & Case, the group’s attorneys.
The [...]
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May 4th, 2009 by Bill Cawthon
Judge Arthur Gonzales approved $4.6 billion in debtor-in-possession financing allowing Chrysler to pay its dealers and suppliers and to give Chrysler time to finalize its alliance with Fiat.
The U.S. Treasury will supply $4.1 billion of the funding with another $400 million coming from New York banks that already banks hold about $4 billion in Chrysler [...]
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