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Southampton Leisure Holdings PLC (in Creditors Voluntary Liquidation)


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Any creditors of the old company (perhaps Shareholders like me) received a letter from Begbies Traynor today?

 

Haven't had time to look at the Report & Accounts yet.

 

liquidators meeting to be held in London on 23rd May at 1100hrs

 

Thought this had been all done and dusted!!

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This is a pure guess......

 

Part of the terms of liquidation was a 4 million pound payment to Aviva if Saints made it back into the Premier within 5 years and perhaps the company couldn't be formally liquidated until the outstanding debt had been paid

 

Obviously we made it to the prem, but I couldn't find any line item, one off payments or extra ordinary payments of 4 million in the last set of accounts, so may be it hadn't been paid until recently.

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This is a pure guess......

 

Part of the terms of liquidation was a 4 million pound payment to Aviva if Saints made it back into the Premier within 5 years and perhaps the company couldn't be formally liquidated until the outstanding debt had been paid

 

Obviously we made it to the prem, but I couldn't find any line item, one off payments or extra ordinary payments of 4 million in the last set of accounts, so may be it hadn't been paid until recently.

 

The latest entries at Companies House probably back up your train of though there Gemmel.... an outstanding charge was satisfied in February....

 

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Ok quick lesson. Its a CVL - driven by Creditors - meaning it is an insolvent liquidation (the alternative is a Members Voluntary Liquidation, much less common but is for a company which is being wound up at the end of a project, or the end of its useful life, but is still solvent).

 

Insolvent = not enough to pay creditors in full. Shareholders come after creditors. Hence should be no surprises! Also the letter we got way back from Mark Fry did tell us that there was no prospect of being any cash left.

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Other than the shareholders, is there a list of outstanding creditors ?

 

Were any of these creditors of Southampton FC, as opposed to the parent company ?

 

List of creditors will be published and at the meeting, or posted at companies house. No to your 2nd question, the football club did not go into Admin or Liquidation, only the parent Co

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So no point going up to London for 15 minutes then, good money after bad? Got my letter today, along with tax demand and speeding ticket - any chance of offsetting losses??!! On the plus side, got some money back from CPP!

 

Normal CVL meetings - which happen before any other process - may just about be worth attending if you are keen to grill the directors, or vote for a different liquidator, but thats all. In this case it follows an Admin Order and is a formality to complete the whole process. No point at all in attending.

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Got my letter just now and won't spend any time investigating it: as Dark Munster says, my loss is a lot less than any Pompey fan's. It was a bit of 'take a punt' money and gave me the opportunity to go to AGMs.

 

I'm binning mine: thank Christ Glasgow wasn't a shareholder or we'd have three or four new threads on the matter...

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List of creditors will be published and at the meeting, or posted at companies house. No to your 2nd question, the football club did not go into Admin or Liquidation, only the parent Co

 

Makes sense..

 

Someone has posted on another forum that SLH will bow out owing ~£5.5m to unsecured creditors - news that has triggered frenzied excitement amongst our six fingered neighbours, it seems.

 

Will have to see if I can find out who is owed what..

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Someone has posted on another forum that SLH will bow out owing ~£5.5m to unsecured creditors - news that has triggered frenzied excitement amongst our six fingered neighbours, it seems.

 

How about we do a deal with our fickle friends down the road.... we'll scrub off our footballing results during the period we were 'overspending' if they do the same with theirs? Hmmm, thought not...

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