Hyflux aborts investment deal with SM Investments

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Hyflux yesterday aborted a key investment deal with would-be saviour SM Investments (SMI) and cancelled a critical creditors' vote scheduled today, throwing its future in doubt. The beleaguered water treatment firm also cancelled a scheme meeting on April 8 and an...

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Hyflux maintained that SMI had agreed to allocate $271 million to settle debts with creditors, but SMI denied this. Hyflux said, it will"continue to relentlessly pursue all other viable strategic opportunities" as part of its court-supervised restructuring. Meanwhile, the company's 34,000 retail investors stand to lose most of the $900 million they invested in Hyflux.

 

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