If necessary, an auction for the terminals is set for Nov. Yellow attorney Allyson Smith said during Friday’s hearing that initial indications of interest for some of Yellow’s service centers have been as high as two to 11 times appraised value. While Old Dominion may make another bid to try and top Estes, I doubt any other LTL carriers will enter the competition.” “At $1.525, the savings begin to dwindle as the bids climb toward market value. The initial $1.3 billion Estes bid would save it “a fair bit on the equipment and terminals,” Phares told Sourcing Journal. Jonathan Phares, assistant professor of supply chain management at Iowa State University, said he’s not sure if many additional bids will come in before the stalking horse bid winner is announced. Parties still have until Friday to place a stalking horse bid, which will set the floor price for the bankruptcy auction, where Yellow could accept any higher offers. Teamsters Call for Bankruptcy Reform as Estes Wins Yellow Stalking Horse Bid But Thomasville, N.C.-based rival Old Dominion upped the ante with a $1.5 billion offer. The Richmond, Va.-based Estes was Yellow’s original preferred stalking horse bidder after it placed a $1.3 billion bid last month. The $1.525 billion offer from less-than-truckload (LTL) competitor Estes Express Lines for Yellow’s nearly 170 terminals remains the bid to beat. Goldblatt is scheduled to rule on Friday on the lead stalking horse bidder for Yellow’s real estate portfolio. The lifeline will be used to help the bankrupt trucking company pay creditors and wind down after it shuttered operations July 30 because customers gave rivals their business amid the threat of a strike by 22,000 Teamsters-represented workers. That figure could rise to as much as $212 million when including a potential delayed draw of up to $70 million.
The judge also approved the $142 million debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing Yellow secured from hedge funds Citadel and MFN Partners, now its largest shareholder. In a Friday hearing in a Delaware bankruptcy court, Judge Craig Goldblatt gave the official okay for the trucking company to move forward with upcoming bankruptcy auctions as it liquidates. is getting closer to selling off its terminals, vehicle fleet and other real estate assets.
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