0001193125-17-383641.txt : 20171229 0001193125-17-383641.hdr.sgml : 20171229 20171229163956 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-17-383641 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20171228 ITEM INFORMATION: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement ITEM INFORMATION: Other Events ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20171229 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20171229 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Motors Liquidation Co CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000040730 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: MOTOR VEHICLES & PASSENGER CAR BODIES [3711] IRS NUMBER: 380572515 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0331 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-00043 FILM NUMBER: 171282387 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 500 RENAISSANCE CTR STREET 2: SUITE 1400 CITY: DETROIT STATE: MI ZIP: 48265-3000 BUSINESS PHONE: 313 556-5000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 500 RENAISSANCE CTR STREET 2: SUITE 1400 CITY: DETROIT STATE: MI ZIP: 48265-3000 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: GENERAL MOTORS CORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19930816 8-K 1 d487121d8k.htm FORM 8-K Form 8-K

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): December 28, 2017

 

 

Motors Liquidation Company GUC Trust

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   1-43   45-6194071

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

c/o Wilmington Trust Company, as trust administrator and trustee

Attn: Beth A. Andrews, Vice President

Rodney Square North

1100 North Market Street

Wilmington, Delaware

  19890-1615
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (302) 636-6000

 

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company  ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.  ☐

 

 

 


Item 1.01 Entry into Material Definitive Agreement

 

Item 8.01 Other Events.

Background

As previously disclosed, including most recently on November 13, 2017 in its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (the “November 2017 10-Q”), the Motors Liquidation Company GUC Trust (the “GUC Trust”) is involved in litigation concerning purported economic losses, personal injuries and/or death suffered by certain lessees and owners of vehicles (such persons, “Potential Plaintiffs”) manufactured by General Motors Corporation prior to its sale of substantially all of its assets to NGMCO, Inc., n/k/a General Motors LLC (“New GM”). Certain of the Potential Plaintiffs have filed lawsuits against New GM, filed motions seeking authority from the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (the “Bankruptcy Court”) to file claims against the GUC Trust (the “Late Claims Motions”), or are members of a putative class covered by those actions.

As previously disclosed, including most recently in the November 2017 10-Q, the GUC Trust was previously engaged in discussions with certain of the Potential Plaintiffs regarding a potential settlement of the Late Claims Motions and various related issues (the “Potential Plaintiff Settlement”), and such discussions had meaningfully progressed. The GUC Trust ultimately did not execute the Potential Plaintiff Settlement. Instead, after careful consideration and negotiations, on September 12, 2017, the GUC Trust entered into a Forbearance Agreement (the “Forbearance Agreement”) with New GM by which (i) the GUC Trust agreed not to seek an order estimating the claims of the Potential Plaintiffs or seek the issuance of additional “Adjustment Shares” from New GM until the final resolution of certain litigation, (ii) New GM agreed to pay the costs of the GUC Trust’s litigation in connection with the Late Claims Motions and related litigation, and (iii) New GM and the GUC Trust agreed to negotiate an appropriate rate of return from New GM should any GUC Trust distributions be held up solely due to the Late Claims Motions litigation.

The Forbearance Agreement has been executed by the parties, but its terms remain subject to certain conditions which may or may not ever be satisfied, including obtaining the approval of the Bankruptcy Court (an “Approval Order”), together with a finding that the Proposed Plaintiff Settlement was not binding on the GUC Trust. By its terms, the Forbearance Agreement was scheduled to automatically terminate on December 29, 2017 (the “Outside Date”) in the event that the Bankruptcy Court had not yet entered the Approval Order. On December 28, 2017, the GUC Trust and New GM entered into a First Amendment to Forbearance Agreement (the “First Amendment”) which had the effect of extending the Outside Date to February 28, 2018.

Whether the conditions precedent for the effectiveness of certain terms of the New GM Agreement will, at any point, be satisfied is uncertain and subject to numerous risks. Accordingly, holders of Units should carefully consider such uncertainty before making any decisions with respect to their investment in such Units.

 

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A copy of the First Amendment is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Form 8-K.

 

Item 9.01 Exhibits.

 

Exhibit
No.

  

Description

99.1    First Amendment to Forbearance Agreement

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit
No.

  

Description

99.1    First Amendment to Forbearance Agreement

 

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SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

Date: December 29, 2017     MOTORS LIQUIDATION COMPANY GUC TRUST
    By: Wilmington Trust Company, not in its individual capacity, but solely in its capacity as trust administrator and trustee of the Motors Liquidation Company GUC Trust
    By:  

/s/ Beth A. Andrews

    Name:   Beth A. Andrews
    Title:   Vice President of Wilmington Trust Company
EX-99.1 2 d487121dex991.htm EX-99.1 EX-99.1

Exhibit 99.1

EXECUTION VERSION

First Amendment to Forbearance Agreement

This amendment, dated as of December 28, 2017 (the “Amendment”) to that certain Forbearance Agreement dated as of September 12, 2017 (the “Forbearance Agreement”), is executed by and among (i) Wilmington Trust Company, solely in its capacity as trust administrator and trustee (the “GUC Trust Administrator”) of the Motors Liquidation Company GUC Trust, and (ii) General Motors LLC (“New GM”) in accordance with Section 4.1(a)(iii) of the Forbearance Agreement. All capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Forbearance Agreement.

W I T N E S S E T H

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 4.1(a)(iii) of the Forbearance Agreement, the Forbearance Agreement shall automatically terminate at 5:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on December 29, 2017 (the “Outside Date”) if the Approval Order has not been entered by the Outside Date; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 4.1(a)(iii) of the Forbearance Agreement, the Outside Date may be extended by the written agreement of the Parties; and

WHEREAS, the GUC Trust Administrator and New GM have each determined that extending the Outside Date is in the best interests of each of the Parties; and

WHEREAS, this Amendment shall become effective upon execution by the appropriate signatories to this Amendment.

NOW, THEREFORE, in accordance with Section 4.1(a)(iii) of the Forbearance Agreement, the Forbearance Agreement is hereby amended as follows:

 

  1. Section 4.1(a)(iii) shall be amended to replace the words “December 29, 2017” with the words “February 28, 2018”.

Except as expressly amended hereby, the Forbearance Agreement shall remain unmodified and in full force and effect.

[Signature Pages Follow]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties hereto have signed this Amendment as of the day and year first written above.

 

Wilmington Trust Company as GUC Trust Administrator
By:  

/s/ Beth Andrews

Name:  

Beth Andrews

Title:  

Vice President

General Motors LLC
By:  

/s/ Erinn D. De Porre

Name:  

Erinn D. De Porre

Title:  

Lead Counsel, Product Litigation

 

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