(Reuters) - Argentina settled with an additional creditor holding defaulted sovereign bonds for US$40.52m, Daniel Pollack, the court-appointed mediator said in a statement on Wednesday.
Pollack has overseen the historic settlement between Argentina and holdout investors who agreed to terms after a 14-year legal battle over defaulted sovereign bonds that ended earlier this year.
The latest agreement was reached with one of the last remaining large “holdout” bondholders, Banca Arner SA of Switzerland, Pollack said.
“Argentina will pay Banca Arner, for its clients, $40,520,000, and Banca Arner will surrender all of its defaulted Argentine bonds and dismiss its lawsuit against Argentina,” the statement said.
An agreement with four major holdout investors in February of this year marked the major turning point in the legal saga and allowed Argentina, under newly elected President Mauricio Macri, to move forward with an economic revitalization plan.
Argentina returned to the international capital markets with a US$16.5bn debt issuance that it used primarily to pay off the US-based holdout investors led by Elliott Management.
Argentina defaulted on approximately US$100bn in debt and interest in early 2002.
Pollack was named Special Master in the case by US District Judge Thomas Griesa in 2014 in order to facilitate a negotiated settlement.
Reporting by Daniel Bases
