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Friday, March 12, 2010 4:33:44 PM
By Steven Church
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aE5YR3gHwl9A&pos=5
March 12 (Bloomberg) -- Washington Mutual Inc. will collect at least $5.95 billion, less than the $20 billion estimated by shareholders, under a proposed settlement of the company’s yearlong battle with federal regulators and JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Shares of Washington Mutual, the bankrupt former parent of the biggest U.S. bank to fail, fell as much as 76 percent after the settlement was announced. Preferred shares, which opened at $2.26, initially fell as much as 86 percent before recovering to $1.70 at 3:21 p.m. in New York.
Under terms of the deal, Washington Mutual, known as WaMmu, will get $4 billion in deposits currently held by JPMorgan. WaMu, JPMorgan and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will also share two tax refunds expected to be worth about $5.6 billion, said Brian Rosen, a Washington Mutual attorney, in an interview today.
Rosen announced the agreement in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Delaware, where all three entities had been battling for months over the deposits. Shareholders had estimated in court papers that the company could collect $20 billion from the deposits, tax refunds and lawsuits.
The deal, which took a year to negotiate, will become “vapor” if a group of bondholders successfully opposes it, Rosen said after the hearing.
The money is being held by JPMorgan, which bought Washington Mutual’s bank for $1.9 billion in September 2008 after it was shut by federal regulators.
Debt Repayment
Rosen said the money coming to Seattle-based WaMu will be used to repay $7 billion in debt, mostly owed to bondholders who support the settlement. That won’t leave enough for shareholders, who typically get nothing when a company they own files bankruptcy.
Another set of bondholders owed money by WaMu’s failed Washington Mutual Bank haven’t agreed to support the deal, Rosen said.
Without the support of the bank bondholders, the entire settlement could collapse, Rosen told U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Mary Walrath. The judge must approve the settlement, which Rosen said will be filed by March 26 with the court as part of the company’s liquidation plan.
The company also plans to settle three lawsuits that pitted it against the FDIC and New York-based JPMorgan. A separate shareholder lawsuit against JPMorgan and the FDIC isn’t included in the settlement, Rosen said.
Washington Mutual common shares fell 17 cents, or 45 percent, to 20 cents in over-the-counter trading at 3:24 p.m. The shares had risen 22 percent today before the settlement was announced.
The bankruptcy case is In re Washington Mutual Inc., 08-12229, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Delaware (Wilmington). The dispute over the cash is Washington Mutual Inc. v. JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, 09-50934, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Delaware (Wilmington).
To contact the reporter on this story: Steven Church in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Delaware, at schurch3@bloomberg.net.
Last Updated: March 12, 2010 15:26 EST
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