Solarwatt restructuring plan would see BMW heir seize control

BMW heir Stefan Quandt would become the majority owner of insolvent German PV group Solarwatt under a restructuring plan submitted to a Dresden court.

Debt-stricken Solarwatt – a system integrator and maker of crystalline silicon PV modules – filed for insolvency protection in June, after a series of unsuccessful negotiations with the company’s creditors and outside investors.

The company’s latest plan involves paying back its bondholders and other “non-priority” creditors at 16% of what they are owed – with the possibility of additional future payments.

Solarwatt claims that 16% is significantly higher than the amount paid back under most similar circumstances, and adds that the money would be disbursed within four weeks of the plan’s…

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