SFX Entertainment has filed for bankruptcy. As part of the 'restructuring support agreement' (RSA), which will wipe over US$300 million in debt from the company's books, SFX bondholders will have their debt converted into equity in "a newly strengthened private company". The EDM promoter's founder, chairman and CEO, Robert FX Sillerman, has long…
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SFX Entertainment seeking buyer for Beatport
As the bankrupt promoter goes through a process of restructuring, it looks like download service Beatport will be the first subsidiary to go
By Jon Chapple on 01 Mar 2016
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SFX Entertainment is auctioning off Beatport.
According to a motion filed in the Delaware bankruptcy court yesterday by Kurtzman Carson Consultants, “given SFX’s current financial condition, SFX cannot afford to make additional investments in Beatport as may be needed in the future, and therefore has decided to sell the Beatport assets”.
EDM promoter SFX, which filed for bankruptcy on 1 February, bought the digital music store for roughly US$50 million in February 2013.
“Given its current financial condition, SFX cannot afford to make additional investments in Beatport as may be needed in the future and therefore has decided to sell”
Interested buyers should present themselves for an auction at the offices of Greenberg Traurig LLP on Park Avenue in New York at 11am Eastern Time on 3 May, “or such other place as determined by the debtors”. (You’ll need a “good faith deposit” of $2m, or at least 10 per cent of the purchase price, up front.)
Over the weekend SFX requested permission from a judge to halt a lawsuit against its chairman and former CEO, Robert FX Sillerman, while it focuses on its post-bankruptcy restructuring.
