US hedge fund Davidson Kempner Capital Management is part of the creditor committee for the $1.1 billion debt restructuring at Bahrain investment house Arcapita, the first time a fund has fulfilled such a role in the Gulf.
Previous restructurings in the region, like Dubai World's $25 billion debt deal, have been bank-only affairs, leading to long extensions as banks, concerned with provisioning, opaque legal remedies and maintaining relationships with local borrowers, adopted a conciliatory attitude...............................................Full Article: Source
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