Since I last reported on the bankruptcy of Caesars Entertainment Operating Company (CEOC) there has been some news:
1. The junior creditors appear to be no closer to agreeing with the senior creditors on a restructuring of CEOC. The latest obvious strife was when Judge Benjamin Goldgar threatened sanctions against the junior creditors for objecting to CEOC employing the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis as bankruptcy counsel. Jones Day, the counsel for the junior creditors, then withdrew their objections.
2. A Chinese consortium is apparently bidding for the Caesars Interactive Entertainment Inc, a unit of Caesars Acquisition Company (CAC). CAC is not in bankruptcy (at least for now). Given the current acrimony in the bankruptcy it is almost a certainty that the junior creditors will object to this sale (unless the proceeds are funneled to them, and there’s no chance that the current owners of Caesars want that to happen) so this deal is very unlikely to move forward until the bankruptcy is settled. Reports are that the World Series of Poker is not part of the proposed sale.
I still believe that the most likely outcome is for all of Caesars to be forced into bankruptcy, and this is more likely to happen sooner rather than later.
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