Reorganization

On July 20, 2016, (the "Bankruptcy Petition Date"), Novation and three of its subsidiaries, NMLLC, NovaStar Mortgage Funding Corporation and 2114 Central LLC (collectively, the “Debtors”), filed voluntary petitions (the "Bankruptcy Petitions") for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland (the "Bankruptcy Court"). The Company and one of its subsidiaries subsequently filed with the Bankruptcy Court, and amended, a plan of reorganization for the resolution of the outstanding claims against and interests pursuant to Section 1121(a) of the Bankruptcy Code (as amended and supplemented, the “Plan”) and a related disclosure statement. The Bankruptcy Court entered an order on June 12, 2017 confirming the Plan (the “Confirmation Order”) solely with respect to the Company, which provided that the effective date of the Plan will occur when all conditions precedent to effectiveness, as set forth in the Plan, have been satisfied or waived.

Two of the conditions to the effectiveness of the Plan were (i) the closing of the Company’s acquisition (the “HCS Acquisition”) of all of the capital stock of HCS as discussed in Note 3 and (ii) the restructuring (the “Note Refinancing”) of the Company’s outstanding Series 1 Notes, Series 2 Notes and Series 3 Notes (collectively, the “2011 Notes”), held by Taberna Preferred Funding I, Ltd. (“Taberna I”), Taberna Preferred Funding II, Ltd. (“Taberna II”) and Kodiak CDO I, Ltd. (“Kodiak” and, together with Taberna I and Taberna II, the “Noteholders”), issued pursuant to three Indentures, each dated as of March 22, 2011 (the “Indentures”), between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association. The HCS Acquisition and the Note Refinancing were completed on July 27, 2017, and are discussed in Note 3 and Note 5, respectively.

On July 27, 2017, upon the completion of the HCS Acquisition and the Note Refinancing, and the satisfaction or waiver of all other conditions precedent to effectiveness, the effective date of the Plan occurred and the Company filed a Notice of Occurrence of Effective Date of the Plan with the Bankruptcy Court. Under the Plan, holders of existing equity interests in the Company (i.e., the common stock) retained their interests.

On September 25, 2017, the bankruptcy case of 2114 Central, LLC was dismissed by order of the Bankruptcy Court. Thereafter, on December 22, 2017, NMLLC filed with the Bankruptcy Court a Chapter 11 plan of reorganization, and on December 26, 2017 filed a related disclosure statement. The Bankruptcy Court entered an order on February 16, 2018 approving the disclosure statement, as revised. The Bankruptcy Court will conduct a hearing on April 4, 2018 to consider confirmation of NMLLC’s plan of reorganization.

We incurred significant costs associated with our reorganization and the Chapter 11 proceedings. These costs, which are being expensed as incurred, include (in thousands):



	For the Nine Months Ended September 30,						For the Three Months Ended September 30,
	2017			2016			2017			2016
Professional fees	$	(3,842	)	$	(763	)	$	(826	)	$	(763	)
Adjustments to deferred debt issuance costs and senior debt premium	—			2,399			—			2,399
Adjustments to other liabilities for claims made or rejected contracts	(87		)	(293		)	(68		)	(293		)
Other	(29		)	(17		)	(8		)	(17		)
Reorganization items, net	$	(3,958	)	$	1,326		$	(902	)	$	1,326

Subsequent to September 30, 2017, the Company's professionals involved with the Plan agreed to provide discounts on their fees aggregating $0.6 million. These discounts were recorded during the fourth quarter of 2017 at the time the discount agreements with the professionals were made.