TWA FFB/Aviators - Icahn-Financed Group Boosts Offer for TWA

It's not over till it's over...

"The group, headed by investment banker Brian Freeman, said the new offer adds $480 million in financing over its earlier bid, giving it over $1.1 billion in financing commitments.

Those include $750 million in operating loans, a commitment to purchase $150 million in preferred stock over three years, a commitment to provide bridge financing
until the sale of TWA's 26 percent stake in the Worldspan LP travel reservations computer system, and a $30 million commitment to fund employee training."
http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/010308/business_twa_icahn_dc.html

AA Statement on Icahn Transaction: http://www.amrcorp.com/Icahn.htm

Ouch.

Judge Walsh extends TWA hearing on AMR bid to Saturday...

AP Online via COMTEX (http://cbs.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/newsarticle.asp?siteid=mktw&symb=&guid=%7BCA15A2B9%2DD970%2D4CB4%2DB47F%2D65BA73F8D8 18%7D)

"Your two-page proposal, quite frankly, is almost a joke and it was submitted after the bid proposal deadline," Walsh told a lawyer for TWA Acquisition Group at the end of a daylong hearing.

At another point, the judge added, "The only proposal on the table with respect to the bid procedure is the one by American."

The hearing is scheduled to resume Saturday morning, with testimony from TWA president and CEO William F. Compton.


[This message has been edited by Eugene (edited 03-09-2001).]

Let's hope da judge see the light today and makes a definiteive ruling.

What then?

Doc,

What happened with the TWA judge today?