Intrum files for bankruptcy in US to restructure $4.5 billion debt pile
The company has struggled as the pandemic, an energy crisis and two-decade-high interest rates failed to unleash a wave of loan defaults, with concerns mounting over Intrum's net debt, which reached 49.4 billion Swedish crowns ($4.49 billion) at the end of September. Intrum, which last month announced plans to file for the Chapter 11 protection, listed assets and liabilities in the range of $1 billion to $10 billion and estimated its number of creditors in the range of 1,000 to 5,000, according to a court filing. "Today, with support from the overwhelming majority of our key stakeholders, we are making significant progress towards the implementation of our recapitalisation transaction," said Intrum CEO Andres Rubio.