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Serbia readies debt restructuring plan for Galenika if privatisation fails

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The Serbian government has prepared a plan B for indebted state-controlled pharmaceutical company Galenika, which envisages a restructuring of its 200 million euro ($219.5 million) debts, in case that its efforts to find a strategic partner for the company fail, local media reported on Monday.

The deadline for submitting final bids in a tender for the sale of a 25% stake in Galenika, in which four foreign firms have shown interest, expires on Wednesday.

However, the state, which controls 70% of Galenika has prepared the plan B, under which it would write off Galenika’s debts towards state-owned companies, amounting to some 130 million euro, and reschedule another 70 million euro of debts owed to banks for five to seven years, Blic daily reported, quoting sources.

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Galenika is one of the remaining 17 state-owned Serbian companies bound to be privatised or liquidated as part of commitments which the country has undertaken under a 1.2 billion euro stand-by arrangement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

According to previous media reports, the four companies that bought tender documentation for acquiring 25% of the Zemun-based factory are Bulgarian drug maker Sopharma, India’s Cadila Pharmaceuticals, Finnish investment fund KJK Capital, and London-based investment fund Frontier.

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