Builder Road King Warns of Default Risk If Debt Not Extended

(Bloomberg) — Chinese developer Road King Infrastructure Ltd. is warning investors that it may default if they don’t accept its proposals to buy some bonds back at discounts and give the company more time to pay the rest of the debt.

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The firm offered to purchase five offshore dollar bonds at a price of $257.50 to $515 per $1,000 principal amount, but the maximum consideration would be $60 million, according to its so-called tender offer and consent solicitation plan earlier this month. Other notes would be extended for 3.5 years from their original maturity dates.

“If the Tender Offers and the Consent Solicitations are not successfully consummated, RKI may default on its payment obligations,” according to a Thursday filing by the company, whose portfolio includes residential apartments in mainland China and Hong Kong and expressway operations in Indonesia.

If its efforts aren’t successful, the company said it will consider other options, including ways to restructure all of offshore borrowings, a sign that the Chinese property sector is still grappling with the liquidity crisis despite Beijing’s policy support measures.

Most of its cash balance is held in China and will be used for the working capital needed for its onshore projects, such as construction costs, interest payments and project loan repayments, it said. “Only limited resources would be available” for sending money abroad for its tender offers and consent solicitations due in July 2024, it said.

Road King’s 6.7% dollar bond due September traded at 52 cents on the dollar as of Thursday, according to Bloomberg-compiled data.

–With assistance from Dorothy Ma.

(Updates with company description and bond price in third and sixth paragraphs; earlier version corrected the filing’s date in third paragraph.)

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