while transform holdcorp is a new company, it was the same company which esl created when it made its original $4.4 billion bid on dec 28
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December 28, 2018
Lazard Frères & Co. LLC
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112
Tel: (212) 632-6479; (212) 632-6418
Attention: Brandon Aebersold, Managing Director
Levi Quaintance, Vice President
Ladies and Gentlemen,
This letter indicates the terms upon which Transform Holdco LLC (“Buyer”), a newly formed entity controlled by ESL Investments, Inc. (“ESL”), would be prepared to acquire substantially all of the go-forward retail footprint and other assets and component businesses of Sears Holdings Corporation (together with its subsidiaries, “Sears”) as a going concern (the “Going Concern Proposal”). This letter is being submitted in response to the process letter filed with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (the “Court”) on behalf of the debtors (the “Debtors”) in the Chapter 11 cases captioned as In re Sears Holdings Corporation, et al., Case No. 18-23538 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.) (RDD) on November 21, 2018 (the “Process Letter”) [Docket No. 862] and the Global Bidding Procedures (the “Bidding Procedures”) set forth in the Global Bidding Procedures Order entered on November 19, 2018 [Docket No. 816].
