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U.S. hedge fund Davidson Kempner buys $1.1 billion in UAE bad debt

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US hedge fund Davidson Kempner Capital Management bought $1.1 billion in bad debt from Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank PJSC as the bank cleaned up a balance sheet battered by a string of corporate defaults.

The portfolio includes 44 corporate loans to SMEs in the United Arab Emirates, according to a statement. Davidson Kempner did not disclose the price at which it bought distressed debt.

ADCB, the UAE’s third-largest lender, has been hit by corporate failures such as hospital group NMC Health Plc, payments firm Finablr Plc and construction firm Arabtec Holding. Since lending to the companies, the bank has been bogged down in restructuring talks and has been forced to write down the value of many loans.

Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Edmund Crystal wrote in a note that the sale “is a necessary step to improve the lender’s asset quality metrics,” as lending has clouded ADCB’s outlook since 2019. . “If the transaction price is higher than management’s allocation of provisions for these loans, then the bottom line may get a boost.”

Davidson Kempner, which manages approximately $36 billion in assets, hired Seapoint Capital Ltd. as special servicer and Reviva Capital as loan servicer for the transaction.

• Read more: Abu Dhabi’s second-biggest bank plans to sell $1bn in bad debt

ADCB shares rose 5.5 percent last year, compared with a 20 percent gain in the benchmark Abu Dhabi stock index. Trading in the stock was suspended on Tuesday ahead of the release of its 2022 financial results.

(Updated with BI analyst’s comment in fourth paragraph.)

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