Exhibit 99.3
BRISTOW GROUP FILES AMENDED PLAN OF REORGANIZATION
AND DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
Bankruptcy Court ApprovesDebtor-In-Possession Financing, Commencement of
Solicitation for Consensual Plan of Reorganization
and Motion for Employee Incentive Plans
HOUSTON, TX – August 22, 2019 – Bristow Group Inc. (OTC: BRSWQ) (“Bristow” or the “Company”) today announced an update on the Company’s Chapter 11 court proceedings, and continued progress on its plan to emerge from Chapter 11 in the fourth quarter of 2019.
The Company has filed an Amended Joint Plan of Reorganization (the “Amended Plan”) and the related disclosure statement for the Amended Plan (the “Amended Disclosure Statement”) with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas (the “Court”).
In addition, the Court has approved the proposed Superpriority SecuredDebtor-in-Possession Credit Agreement (the “DIP Credit Agreement”) in an aggregate principal amount of $150 million. The Company expects to execute and fund the borrowings under the DIP Credit Agreement on August 26, 2019, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. The funding of the DIP Credit Agreement will satisfy the financing condition for the Company’s previously announced tender offer to purchase for cash a portion of its outstanding 8.75% Senior Secured Notes due 2023.
The Company’s Ad Hoc Groups of secured and unsecured creditors provided a statement to the Court in support of the Company’s Fiscal Year 2020 Performance Incentive Plan and the Fiscal Year 2020Non-Executive Incentive Plan, and the Court has approved these employee incentive plans.
L. Don Miller, President and Chief Executive Officer of Bristow, said, “These positive developments represent significant progress towardde-levering our balance sheet, optimizing our fleet and raising new capital, as we continue to execute our strategy to improve our competitive positioning and build on our industry-leading culture of safety and performance. We remain on course to achieve an accelerated and efficient emergence from Chapter 11, with the support and partnership of our lenders, creditors and new capital providers.”
The amendments to the original Plan, which had been filed with the Court on August 1, 2019, include:
| | • | | A comprehensive settlement under which the official committee of unsecured creditors agreed to join the Ad Hoc groups of secured and unsecured noteholders in supporting the Amended Plan. |
| | • | | A settlement with PK AirFinance S.à r.l. (“PKA”), Milestone Aviation Group and certain of their affiliates providing for, among other things, a restructuring of the basic economic terms of certain of the Company’s aircraft leases, an amendment of the terms of the term loan credit agreement with PKA, mutual releases between the parties and continued use of certain aircraft important to the Company’s operations (the “Milestone Settlement”). The terms of the Milestone Settlement remain subject to agreement on definitive documentation and approval of the Court. |
