The Administrators consider that the objective of the Administration is to rescue the company as a going concern as approved by the Chancellor of the High Court on 15 July 2020 in the context of a directions application in relation to preferred equity distributions.
Managing the affairs of the company continues to sit with the Administrators until such time as LBIE exits administration; and is returned fully as a solvent entity to the control of directors to be managed as a going concern for the benefit of the Shareholder
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They have no intention of continuing as an ongoing business.
Objective being pursued by the Administrators: Rescuing the company as a going concern. There are a number of important ongoing interactions with counter parties and the courts that need to be progressed making it difficult to predict precisely when the Administration will be brought to an end and passed to the LBIE directors to continue as a going concern
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LBHI Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Ultimate parent of the Lehman group, incorporated in the USA and formerly subject to Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from 15 September 2008. LBHI’s plan of reorganisation became effective on 6 March 2012