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Business Definition for: Bondholder

  • an individual or institution owning bonds issued by a government or company. Bondholders are entitled to payments of the interest as due and the return of the principal when the bond matures.

Additional Resources

Companies breaking new ground in improving bondholder relations.
Fazal Merchant, manager of North American and European Funding at the US headquarters of Ford Motor Credit, thinks that buyers of his company's bonds should be treated in much the same way as individuals who buy the company's cars. He says: "One of our...
Tags: bond, bondholder, Diageo Plc., equity, FINANCE, Ford Motor Co., Investment, investor
Research articles 2001-07-16
Laidlaw Urges Bondholder Support Seeks to Establish Secured Credit Facility.
BURLINGTON, ON, Sep 26, 2000 During a conference call held this afternoon with holders of Laidlaw Inc. (NYSE:LDW; TSE:LDM) bonds, Mr. Stephen Cooper, vice chairman of Laidlaw's board of directors and chief restructuring officer discussed the benefits of achieving bondholder consent to permit ...
Tags: bondholder, Cooper, FINANCE, financing, Investment, Mr.
Research articles 2000-09-27
JPMorgan Launches New Bondholder Service Center On Internet
Business Editors
Tags: bondholder, Internet, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
Research articles 2001-06-11
Telewest Bondholder Committee Responds to Liberty Tender Offer
Business Editors
Research articles 2002-06-17
SpectraSite Receives Notice of Bondholder Suit to Enjoin Tender Offers
Business Editors
Tags: bondholder
Research articles 2002-06-17
With Negotiations with HealthSouth to Consensually Resolve Defaults under Its Indentures Stalled, Bondholder Committee Urges Bondholders Not to Consent
Business Editors
Tags: bondholder, HealthSouth Corp., negotiation
Research articles 2004-05-18
Court Denies Bondholder Request for Temporary Restraining Order; SpectraSite Debt Tender Offers Extended
Business Editors
Tags: bondholder
Research articles 2002-06-25
SpectraSite Debt Tender Offers Continue; No Restraining Order Issued in Bondholder Suit
Business Editors/High Tech Writers
Tags: bondholder
Research articles 2002-06-19
People's Choice Will Seek $25M Loan.
Wireless-communications operator People's Choice TV Corp. PCTV has withdrawn a bond restructuring because its largest bondholder stated that it would not accept the terms of the offering. Instead, PCTV -- which decided to abandon the wireles Wireless-communications operator People's...
Tags: bondholder, Phoenix Technologies
Research articles 1999-03-22
Cherokee restructures capital; shoe division sees little impact.
Cherokee Inc plans to convert $76 million in senior subordinated notes into common stock as part of an agreement to pay off bondholder. The arrangement will give noteholders a 90% share of the company. Cherokee will also exchange outstanding trade debt foCherokee Inc plans to convert $76 million in senior...
Tags: common stock
Research articles 1994-10-17
Mercy backer woos a new set of suitors; Hospital shops itself to U of C, NW Memorial.(News: Mercy Hospital and Medical Center, University of Chicago Hospitals and Northwestern Memorial Hospital)
Byline: SARAH A. KLEIN A bondholder and adviser of the financially struggling Mercy Hospital and Medical Center is pushing for a sale of the hospital, after one would-be buyer stepped away from the bargaining table. New York-based investment ban Byline: SARAH...
Tags: C, hospital, University of Chicago
Research articles 2002-10-07
UGC, Liberty Rework Merger.(UnitedGlobalCom Inc., Liberty Media)(Brief Article)
Faced with the potential bondholder rejection of a proposed $4.02 billion merger with Liberty Media Corp., UnitedGiobalCom Inc. has opted for plan B. Liberty and UGC agreed last year to a merger that would give Liberty an 82-percent voting st ...
Tags: Liberty Media Corp., merger, UGC
Research articles 2001-02-26
Bankruptcy Judge Critical of Excite Bid.(Brief Article)
REDWOOD CITY, CALIF. -- The federal bankruptcy court judge presiding over Excite@Home's Chapter 11 proceedings said he is doubtful that the $307 million bid from AT&T Corp. for the company's assets will fly, given strong bondholder opposition. REDWOOD CITY, CALIF. -- The federal...
Tags: bankruptcy, Chapter 11
Research articles 2001-10-29
France Telecom downgrades add to bondholder confusion.
Byline: Vivek Ahuja Byline: Vivek Ahuja
Tags: France Telecom
Research articles 2002-06-26
MOODY'S UPGRADES RATING TO FLORIDA HOUSING FINANCE AUTHORITY TO Aa1 FROM Aa
NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--May 2, 1995--The rating on the bonds is being upgraded to Aa1 from Aa, based upon the following factors that combine to provide very high-quality bondholder security:
Tags: finance, Moody's Corp.
Research articles 1995-05-02
Rainbow National Services to Host Bondholder Conference Call - Research and Markets offers a transcript of 'Cablevision Systems Corp.' Conference Call
DUBLIN, Ireland -- The Cablevision Systems Corp. (NYSE:CVC) Corporate Conference Call took place on 17-May-06 10:00am ET.
Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp.
Research articles 2006-05-17
US District Court Rejects Trustee Motion and Riverstone Motion in Bondholder Litigation
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Riverstone Networks, Inc. (Pink Sheets:RSTN) said today that the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California entered an order that denied U.S. Bank's motion for summary judgment to require immediate repayment of $131,750,000 in outstanding bonds.
Tags: litigation, Riverstone
Research articles 2004-07-14
Fitch Publishes Analysis of Time Warner's Structure and Covenants
NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has published a comprehensive analysis of Time Warner (NYSE:TWX). The report provides investors with the key credit drivers for the ratings from both an operational and financial perspective, and there is a particular focus on the company's debt structure, key indenture features, guarantee structure and...
Tags: analysis, Fitch, Time Warner Inc.
Research articles 2007-01-30
Nextel, OneComm gain bondholder approval of transactions
RUTHERFORD, N.J.--BUSINESS WIRE--July 3, 1995--Nextel Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: CALL) announced today that it has received the required consents from its bondholders to complete its pending transactions with Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT), Craig O. McCaw, OneComm Corporation (NASDAQ: ONEC), American Mobile Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ: AMSE), and Dial Page Inc. (NASDAQ: DPGE).
Tags: Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., Nextel Communications Inc.
Research articles 1995-07-03
Evening Standard, London, Anthony Hilton Column.
By Anthony Hilton, Evening Standard, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 7--If Transport Secretary Stephen Byers ever found himself in court accused of having kept Railtrack investors in the dark for months while plotting the company's demise, he would have one obvious line ...
Tags: administration, administrator, bondholder, Enron Corp., FINANCE, Government, Hilton Hotels Corp., Taxes
Research articles 2001-12-07