US 私的な 公正，普通株主権 巨大（な） Carlyle to take 支配（する）／統制する of Southend Airport
US 私的な 公正，普通株主権 巨大（な） Carlyle is 始める，決める to take 支配（する）／統制する of Southend Airport after agreeing a 取引，協定 to settle a 負債 with its 現在の owner.
The 投資家 will take an 82.5% 火刑／賭ける in London Southend Airport (LSA), while 現在の owner Esken will keep 17.5%.
Esken, 以前は Stobart Group, said it had decided to agree to the 提案 designed to settle the airport’s £193.75 million 負債 to Carlyle 全世界の 組織／基盤／下部構造 基金 (CGI).
“The company has agreed to accede to that recapitalisation 提案 in relation to LSA,” it said in a 声明 to 株主s on Wednesday.
“This will therefore proceed on a consensual basis, rather than through a contested 法廷，裁判所 過程, which could be 潜在的に destructive for all stakeholders.”
Esken will also delist its 株 in London and “勝利，勝つd 負かす／撃墜する” the remaining parts of the group.
EasyJet said it would abandon Southend in 2020, but later returned. (Nick Ansell/PA)
“The 法廷，裁判所 過程 for the Esken 再編成 計画（する） is likely to take several months to 結論する but, in the 合間, the 未来 基金ing of LSA is 安全な・保証する and the board will 進歩 the 整然とした 勝利，勝つd 負かす／撃墜する of the remaining group,” the 商売／仕事 said.
Once a rising 星／主役にする の中で airports which service London, Southend Airport’s 未来 has been uncertain since the Covid-19 pandemic put the ブレーキs on international travel.
In 2021, as the pandemic continued to eat into 乗客 numbers, the company borrowed £125 million from Carlyle to 安全な・保証する its 財政／金融s through the 危機.
But later Carlyle （人命などを）奪う，主張するd that Esken had broken the 条件 of its 貸付金 and asked for £200 million 支援する. The 最新の 取引，協定 will settle that 論争.
Esken had already 発表するd the 可能性 of a 取引，協定 last month, 説 it had until March 4 to 検討する，考慮する it over.
It now remains to be seen whether Southend Airport can turn around its fortunes.
In 2020 one of the airport’s biggest 顧客s, easyJet, said it would の近くに its base there. The 航空機による has since returned and now runs several flights out of Southend.
