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United Breweries Holdings To Propose One-Time Settlement Offer To Banks In Winding-Up Petition

United breweries seeks time to put in the formal order. 

Vijay Mallaya (Photographer: Namas Bhojani/Bloomberg News)
Vijay Mallaya (Photographer: Namas Bhojani/Bloomberg News)

United Breweries Holdings Ltd. (UBHL), the parent company of UB Group, will propose a one-time settlement offer to the State Bank of India (SBI)-led lenders’ consortium before the Karnataka High Court, a company official told BloombergQuint on the condition of anonymity.

Last week, the high court had directed UBHL to come up with an offer to settle the matter with the consortium and adjourned the matter till April 4.

On March 7, the UB Group had filed an appeal challenging a February 8 order passed by a single-judge bench, which had directed winding up of UBHL to recover dues payable by the company-promoted, defunct Kingfisher Airlines Ltd.

The creditors, including lead petitioner BNP Paribas, SBI and aircraft lessors and engine makers such as Rolls-Royce and IAE International Aero Engines AG had moved the court to recover dues worth Rs 146 crore.

Vijay Mallya owns more than 50 percent in UBHL.

Earlier the Debt Recovery Tribunal had also ordered the SBI-led consortium of banks to start the process of recovering over Rs 6,203 crore, at 11.5 percent annual interest rate, from the embattled tycoon and his companies in another case involving Kingfisher Airlines.