-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, BefE/Kp8rYKjUVXWzzeZW2bUk6BYzck9ESMTcgtIp/VfapU/GzGwTnXIvuo6D9Gj WKLQiX9cBozoD5FSd3SVzA== 0000950123-96-000357.txt : 19960206 0000950123-96-000357.hdr.sgml : 19960206 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000950123-96-000357 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 10-Q/A PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 19951130 FILED AS OF DATE: 19960205 SROS: NONE FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ARLEN CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000007346 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: MOTOR VEHICLE PARTS & ACCESSORIES [3714] IRS NUMBER: 132668657 STATE OF INCORPORATION: NY FISCAL YEAR END: 0228 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 10-Q/A SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-06675 FILM NUMBER: 96511251 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 505 EIGHTH AVE CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10018 BUSINESS PHONE: 2127368100 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 505 EIGHTH AVE CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10018 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: ARLEN REALTY & DEVELOPMENT CORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19860121 10-Q/A 1 THE ARLEN CORPORATION 1 SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 FORM 10-Q/A-1 /X/ QUARTERLY REPORT UNDER SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the quarterly period ended November 30, 1995 OR / / TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the transition period from to ---------- ----------- Commission file number 1-6675 THE ARLEN CORPORATION ------------------------------------------------------------- (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) New York 13-2668657 ------------------------------- ------------------------------ (State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer incorporation or organization) Identification No.) 505 Eighth Avenue, New York, New York 10018 ------------------------------- ------------------------------ (Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code) Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (212) 736-8100 Not Applicable ------------------------------------------------------------- (Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report) Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes X No ---------- --------- Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the issuer's classes of common stock, as of the latest practicable date: Common Stock, $1 par value - 29,770,234 shares outstanding as of January 4, 1996 (excluding shares owned by subsidiaries of the Registrant) 1 2 PART II - OTHER INFORMATION Note: Part II of the Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended November 30, 1995 is amended in this Form 10-Q/A-1 to (1) add a new Item 1 (Legal Proceedings) to read as follows and (2) amend Item 3 (Defaults Upon Senior Securities) to read in its entirety as follows. 2 3 Item 1. Legal Proceedings. In Item 3 of the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 28, 1995, the Registrant reported that its subsidiary, Grant Products, Inc. ("Grant"), had received a general notice of liability from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (the "EPA"), indicating that Grant may be a potentially responsible party, with numerous other such parties, with respect to the San Fernando Valley Area 2 Superfund Site, Glendale North Operable Unit (the "Site"), in Los Angeles County, California. In October 1995, the Registrant received a special notice letter from the EPA stating that the EPA considers Grant to be potentially responsible, with numerous other such parties, for the costs incurred in connection with contamination at the Site. The EPA is seeking an agreement from the potentially responsible parties to conduct remedial action and to pay the EPA's oversight costs for overseeing the work and past and future response costs in connection with the Site, and has demanded payment of $21,743,970 (plus recoverable interest) in costs incurred in connection with conditions at the Site and at other Superfund sites and operable units within the San Fernando Valley. Reference is made to Item 3 of the 1995 10-K for further information regarding this environmental proceeding. Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities. On November 30, 1995, Rucon Services Corp. (formerly Arlen Holdings Corp.), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Registrant ("Rucon"), failed to make a $175,000 installment payment to Arthur G. Cohen ("Mr. Cohen"), the Registrant's Chairman of the Board, pursuant to the Current Obligations Agreement dated March 29, 1993 between Rucon and Mr. Cohen. In December 1995, the Registrant and Rucon received a notice of such default (the "Current Obligations Default") from Mr. Cohen. The Current Obligations Default is an event which, after notice and time to cure, becomes an Event of Default under the Registrant's 5-1/4% Subordinated Notes, having an outstanding balance of approximately $125,000,000, issued to Mr. Cohen (the "Cohen Notes") and to members or entities of the family of Arthur N. Levien, a deceased former director/officer of the Registrant (the "Levien Notes" and, collectively with the Cohen Notes, the "Notes"). The Cohen Notes, which had an outstanding balance of approximately $84,000,000 at November 30, 1995, have been pledged since 1993 to Bank Leumi Trust Company of New York ("Bank Leumi") as security for certain obligations of Mr. Cohen to Bank Leumi. In 1993, the Registrant collateralized the Notes with, among other things, a pledge of the outstanding shares of capital stock of Rucon (the "Rucon Shares"), which indirectly owns the outstanding capital stock of all the Registrant's operating subsidiaries. Shortly after January 1, 1996, the Registrant and Rucon received from Mr. Cohen, as the agent (the "Agent") for the holders of the Notes (the "Holders"), a notice accelerating all principal and interest due under the Notes and were advised by the Agent that, in his capacity as the Agent, he expected to ultimately foreclose on the Rucon Shares and to conduct a public sale of the Rucon Shares in accordance with the New York Uniform Commercial Code. Such a sale (the "UCC Sale"), if consummated, will result in the loss by the Registrant of all its operating subsidiaries and produce for the Registrant only (a) a reduction in the outstanding indebtedness under the Notes equal to 75% of the net purchase price paid for the Rucon Shares by the successful bidder at the public sale and (b) proceeds for the residual interest of the Registrant in the Rucon Shares equal in amount to 25% of such net purchase price. Inasmuch as neither the Registrant nor Rucon is currently financially able to cure the Current Obligations Default, to pay the principal and accrued interest asserted by the Agent to be due under the Notes or to challenge the UCC Sale in the courts, the Registrant and Rucon have, since the Current Obligations Default, been discussing certain opportunities which the Agent and Mataponi, L.L.C. ("Mataponi"), a limited liability company controlled by Mr. Cohen's wife (who is a principal shareholder of the Registrant), have offered to the Registrant and Rucon if Mataponi is the successful bidder at the UCC Sale. These opportunities include the opportunity to: (1) facilitate the assignment of the indebtedness of Mr. Cohen secured by the Notes (and the collateral securing the Notes) from Bank Leumi to Mataponi, following which Mataponi and the Agent will consent to an extension in the maturity date of the Notes from July 31, 1997 to December 28, 2033 and the release of the pledged shares of Common Stock of the Registrant's and Rucon's subsidiary, Grant Products, Inc. ("Grant"), from the collateral securing the Notes; (2) satisfy the currently-unsatisfied judgment obtained against the Registrant by Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York ("Morgan"), have discontinued (with prejudice) the pending lawsuits initiated by Morgan against the Registrant and Rucon and have discharged and cancelled the two past due promissory notes held by Morgan which the Registrant had issued to Mr. Cohen and which Mr. Cohen had assigned to Morgan (all of the foregoing obligations to Morgan being collectively referred to as the "Morgan Obligations" and being described in the Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended August 31, 1995), all of which could not be accomplished without (i) the availability of the shares of Common Stock of Grant (the 3 4 "Grant Stock") for their pledge to Grant's lender, Sumitomo Bank of California ("Sumitomo"), as security for a $3,000,000 term loan which would be upstreamed to Arlen to discharge and satisfy the Morgan obligations and (ii) the consent of the Agent to such term loan and the use of the proceeds thereof for such purpose; (3) satisfy, with the 25% of the net proceeds of the UCC Sale that the Registrant will retain for its residual interest, if Mataponi is the successful bidder for the Rucon Shares, certain secured obligations (the "Secured Obligations") to third parties who may be deemed to be affiliates of Mr. Cohen; and (4) attempt to acquire on favorable terms, with the assistance of Mataponi if Mataponi is the successful bidder for the Rucon Shares, two mortgage notes (the "Mortgage Notes"), secured by certain property on White Plains Road, Bronx, New York. After considering the opportunities (including the 38-year extension in the maturity date of the Notes) offered by Mataponi and the holders of the Notes to mitigate the anticipated loss of the Registrant's operating companies which will occur upon the involuntary UCC Sale of the Rucon Shares, the Registrant and Rucon entered into a Forbearance Agreement (the "Forbearance Agreement") with Mataponi and Mr. Cohen, dated as of January 5, 1996, which provides (assuming that Mataponi is the successful bidder for the Rucon Shares at the UCC Sale), among other things, that: (a) in consideration for the forbearances, extensions, opportunities and other benefits provided to the Registrant and Rucon under the Forbearance Agreement, they will not litigate or otherwise contest the acceleration of the Notes or the foreclosure and public sale of the Rucon Shares; (b) Rucon, as an accommodation to Mataponi, will acquire from Bank Leumi, pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption Agreement between Bank Leumi and Rucon (the "Assignment Agreement"), for $5,500,000 to be provided by Mataponi, and then assign to Mataponi, certain indebtedness (the "Leumi Debt") of Mr. Cohen to Bank Leumi, having a principal balance of approximately $12,000,000, which is secured by the Cohen Notes (which in turn are secured by, inter alia, the Rucon Shares and the Grant Stock); (c) in order to induce Mataponi and the Agent to consent to the release of the Grant Stock from the collateral for the Notes, Rucon will pledge to Bank Leumi, pursuant to a Restructuring Agreement between Bank Leumi and Mr. Cohen (the "Restructuring Agreement"), as collateral for indebtedness of Mr. Cohen to Bank Leumi in the principal amount of $2,722,513.33, 55% of the outstanding shares of capital stock of Rucon's wholly-owned subsidiary, Curtis Holding Corporation ("Curtis Holding"), and will cause Curtis Holding to pledge to Bank Leumi, as additional collateral therefor, 55% of the outstanding shares of capital stock of Curtis Partition Corporation ("Curtis Partition"); (d) upon the assignment to Mataponi of the Leumi Debt and the collateral therefor and the pledge of 55% of the capital stock of Curtis Holding and Curtis Partition to Bank Leumi, the Holders, Mataponi and the Agent will cause the Grant Stock to be released; (e) upon the release of the Grant Stock from the collateral for the Notes, it will be pledged to Sumitomo to induce Sumitomo to loan to Grant and a sister company, on a term loan basis, $3,000,000 (the "Sumitomo Advance"), which Sumitomo, Mataponi and the Agent would permit to be dividended through to Rucon, which would 4 5 pay these funds to the Registrant to obtain a release of certain obligations that had been assumed by Rucon from the Registrant in 1993; (f) upon the receipt of the aforesaid $3,000,000 payment from Rucon, the Registrant will use these funds to obtain from Morgan the satisfaction, discharge and cancellation of the Morgan Obligations; (g) the Registrant may attempt to acquire the Mortgage Notes, which will mature on December 28, 2034, on favorable terms, with the assistance of Mataponi if Mataponi is the successful bidder for the Rucon Shares; (h) in addition to receiving 25% of the net proceeds from the UCC Sale of the Rucon Shares for the Registrant's residual interest therein (which the Registrant will apply to the satisfaction of the Secured Obligations), the Registrant will receive, if Mataponi is the successful bidder for the Rucon Shares, a $2,000,000 promissory note (the "$2,000,000 Note") payable in quarterly installments over a two year period, to be issued by Automotive Accessories Holdings, L.L.C., which will be the parent of the companies owning the assets of the Registrant's current automotive accessory subsidiaries; and (i) the Registrant, on the one hand, and Rucon and its subsidiaries, on the other hand, will exchange mutual releases, the Registrant will deliver a general release to Mataponi and the Registrant will be released from any further obligations under the 1993 Current Obligations Agreement between Rucon and Mr. Cohen. On January 16, 1996, the transactions described above in clauses (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) were consummated and, on January 17, 1996, the Agent notified the Registrant and Rucon that the UCC Sale has been scheduled for February 6, 1996. If the UCC Sale takes place as contemplated (a situation which is outside the control of the Registrant and in which the Registrant is not a participant) and Mataponi is the successful bidder for the Rucon Shares, the Forbearance Agreement requires that (1) the Agent remit 25% of the net proceeds from the UCC Sale to the Registrant for its residual interest in the Rucon Shares, (2) the Holders, Mataponi and the Agent withdraw the previously-delivered acceleration notice and extend the maturity date of the Notes to December 28, 2033, (3) Rucon deliver the $2,000,000 Note to the Registrant and (4) Mataponi assist the Registrant in attempting to acquire the Mortgage Notes on a favorable basis. In the event that the UCC Sale occurs, the Registrant will lose all of its operating companies and cease to have any source of income from operations in the near term. However, the Registrant will receive 25% of the net proceeds from the UCC Sale and, if Mataponi is the successful bidder for the Rucon Shares, will have the installment payments from the $2,000,000 Note to meet its short-term cash needs and the opportunity to acquire the Mortgage Notes to add long-term asset value to its balance sheet. The Notes will have been extended for 38 years (during which time interest will accrue at the current rate of 8% per annum) and will no longer be subject to default other than for non-payment of principal or interest or bankruptcy-related events. As extended, the Notes will provide for the Holders to receive 50% of the Registrant's Net Income (as defined in the Forbearance Agreement) quarterly on account of the indebtedness under the Notes and will, at the request of the Holders, be secured by certain assets which may be acquired by the Registrant within the next 18 months. In entering into the Forbearance Agreement, the Registrant believed that if the benefits thereof are not available, the Registrant would be unable to pay the accelerated Notes and would be compelled to liquidate, as a result which the Registrant would cease to continue as a viable business entity. If the Forbearance Agreement is consummated, the Registrant retains its substantial net operating loss carryforwards and, having satisfied the Morgan Obligations and, with the cooperation of Mataponi, having achieved the release of the Notes and the collateral therefor from the liens thereon of Bank Leumi, expects to seek new business opportunities. In the event that the UCC sale occurs but Mataponi is not the successful bidder for the Rucon Shares, the Registrant will be entitled to payment for its 25% residual interest therein. However, inasmuch as the transactions contemplated by the Forbearance Agreement are intended to be integrated parts of a single transaction which can be consummated only in its entirety, the Registrant will not receive certain of the benefits provided for in the Forbearance Agreement, including the extension in the maturity date of the Notes (which will then remain immediately due and payable in full) and the $2,000,000 Note which the Registrant considers necessary to meet its short-term operating expenses. The Registrant will also have certain obligations to Mataponi, including obligations to pay to the holders of the Notes an amount equal to the Sumitomo Advance and to deliver the Grant Stock back to Mataponi. However, the Registrant has been advised that, in order to enhance the value of the Rucon Shares, the Agent and Mataponi have agreed, whether or not Mataponi is the successful bidder for the Rucon Shares, to release their security interests in the outstanding stock of Arlen Automotive, Inc. ("Automotive") at the closing of the UCC Sale. Automotive is wholly-owned by Rucon and is the direct parent of all of the Registrant's operating subsidiaries other than Curtis Partition. The foregoing summary of the transactions described in the Forbearance Agreement, the Assignment Agreement and the Restructuring Agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to such Agreements, copies of which are filed as Exhibits 10.15, 10.16 and 10.17, respectively, to this Report. 5 6 SIGNATURES 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 thereunto duly authorized. THE ARLEN CORPORATION /s/ Allan J. Marrus ------------------------------------ Date: February 5, 1996 By Allan J. Marrus, President /s/ David S. Chaiken ------------------------------------ Date: February 5, 1996 By David S. Chaiken, Treasurer 6 -----END PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----