Federal Mogul Exits Chapter 11, Public Again Soon

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By Douglas A. McIntyre Updated Published
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Federal-Mogul Corp. has announced it emerged from Chapter 11 on December 27, 2007 as the effective date of its reorganization plan.  CEO Jose Maria Alapont noted beginning 2008 as being well positioned for sustainable profitable growth.

The company issued 49.9 million Class A common stock and 50.1 million Class B shares.  These Class A shares of common stock were issued to holders of the pre-bankruptcy notes and certain other unsecured claims, and Federal Mogul intends that these Class A will be listed in the near term.  The 50.1 million shares of Class B common stock were issued to the Federal-Mogul Asbestos Personal Injury Trust.

Federal Mogul also has issued 6.9 million warrants to purchase shares of its Class A Common Stock to holders of its pre-bankruptcy common stock, preferred stock and convertible junior subordinated debentures.

The company has a $3.5 Billion exit facility agreement that consists of a $540 million revolving credit facility and a $2.960 Billion term loan facility.  It intends to repay on January 3, 2008 the Tranche A term loan and the PIK notes from funds borrowed under the term loan credit facility.

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Jon C. Ogg
January 2, 2008

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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