FORM 8-K
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of report (Date of earliest event reported) July 21, 2009
Delphi Corporation
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
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Delaware
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1-14787
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38-3430473 |
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(State or Other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation)
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(Commission File Number)
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(IRS Employer Identification No.) |
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5725 Delphi Drive, Troy, MI
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48098 |
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(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
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(Zip Code) |
(248) 813-2000
(Registrants Telephone Number, Including Area Code)
(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy
the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General
Instruction A.2. below):
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ITEM 1.01 |
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ENTRY INTO A MATERIAL DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT |
On July 21, 2009, Delphi Corporation (Delphi or the Company) entered into a further amendment
(the Seventeenth Amendment), to its accommodation agreement (as previously amended and
supplemented through the date hereof, the Accommodation Agreement), with the lenders under its
existing debtor-in-possession financing agreement (the Amended and Restated DIP Credit Facility),
consisting of a $1.1 billion first priority revolving credit facility (the Tranche A Facility), a
$500 million first priority term loan (the Tranche B Term Loan) and a $2.75 billion second
priority term loan (the Tranche C Term Loan). The Seventeenth Amendment extends the term of the
Accommodation Agreement to July 24, 2009 as well as provides time to satisfy certain covenants as
set forth more fully below. The following description of the Seventeenth Amendment is qualified in
its entirety by the text of such amendment, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 99(a) to this
report and incorporated by reference herein. A description of the material terms of the
Accommodation Agreement prior to such modifications is set forth in Delphis Current Reports on
Form 8-K filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on March 31, 2009, as
amended on April 1, 2009 solely for the purposes of adding an exhibit, April 3, 2009, as amended on
April 7, 2009 solely for the purposes of adding another exhibit, April 23, 2009, May 8, 2009, June
2, 2009, June 9, 2009, June 18, 2009, June 22, 2009, June 24, 2009, July 1, 2009, July 8, 2009,
July 13, 2009 and July 20, 2009 (the Original Forms 8-K), which descriptions are incorporated
herein by reference.
Pursuant to the Accommodation Agreement, as in effect through the Sixteenth Amendment (the Prior
Accommodation Agreement), the lenders agreed, among other things, to allow Delphi to continue
using the proceeds of the Amended and Restated DIP Credit Facility and to forbear from the exercise
of certain default-related remedies, in each case until July 21, 2009, subject to the continued
satisfaction by Delphi of a number of covenants and conditions, and as described in more detail
below, the Seventeenth Amendment further extends that date until July 24, 2009. There currently
remains approximately $230 million outstanding under the Tranche A Facility, $311 million
outstanding under the Tranche B Term Loan and $2.75 billion outstanding under the Tranche C Term
Loan under the Amended and Restated DIP Credit Facility. The Prior Accommodation Agreement
contained certain milestone dates, which if not met required Delphi to apply the $47 million
currently held as cash collateral to pay down a portion of the Tranche A Facility and Tranche B
Term Loan extended under the Amended and Restated DIP Credit Facility (the Repayment Obligation)
and may have resulted in an event of default and termination of the accommodation period. One such
milestone in the Prior Accommodation Agreement was that on or before July 20, 2009, Delphi was
required to deliver to the agent under the Amended and Restated DIP Credit Facility a term sheet
setting forth the terms of a global resolution of matters relating to General Motors Companys
(GM) contributions to the resolution of Delphis chapter 11 cases, including without limitation,
all material transactions between Delphi and GM relevant to such resolution, which has been agreed
to by GM and the United States Treasury (the Term Sheet). The failure to deliver the Term Sheet
on or prior to July 20, 2009 triggered the Repayment Obligation, and absent effectiveness of the
Seventeenth Amendment, a failure by Delphi to satisfy the Repayment Obligation on July 21, 2009,
would have been an event of default under the Prior Accommodation Agreement (and absent a cure of
such default, would have resulted in a termination of the accommodation period). In addition,
absent effectiveness of the Seventeenth Amendment, had a majority of the Tranche A and Tranche B
lenders who have signed the Accommodation Agreement and a majority of all lenders who signed the
Accommodation Agreement not notified Delphi that the Term Sheet was satisfactory on or before July
21, 2009, the accommodation period would have terminated on July 22, 2009.
Pursuant to the Seventeenth Amendment, the Repayment Obligation will be triggered on July 24, 2009
unless on or prior to July 23, 2009 Delphi delivers a Term Sheet. The
accommodation period under the Accommodation Agreement will terminate on July 25, 2009, in the
event that a majority of the Tranche A and Tranche B lenders who have signed the Accommodation
Agreement and a majority of all lenders who signed the Accommodation Agreement have not notified
Delphi that the Term Sheet is satisfactory on or before July 24, 2009. In addition, the
Seventeenth Amendment postpones until July 24, 2009 the date by which interest payments with
respect to the Tranche C Term Loan must be paid; which payments, in accordance with the terms of
the Accommodation Agreement, are to be applied ratably to repayments of principal amounts
outstanding under the Tranche A Facility and the Tranche B Term Loan.
The remaining provisions in the Accommodation Agreement are materially unchanged. For information
regarding the current terms of the Accommodation Agreement, as modified, which is not otherwise set
forth in this Current Report on Form 8-K, including the covenants and conditions of the lenders
continued forbearance from exercising remedies through the accommodation period and including the
ability to access certain cash collateral accounts, see Delphis Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
year ended December 31, 2008 (the Annual Report), including the exhibits to the Annual Report,
and the Original Forms 8-K.
Although Delphi is currently in compliance with the terms of the Accommodation Agreement (after
giving effect to the Seventeenth Amendment), Delphis continued compliance and access to sufficient
liquidity to fund its working capital requirements and operations is dependent on a number of
factors including Delphi remaining in compliance with the provisions of the amended interim
liquidity support agreement with GM and administrative creditors, including its suppliers,
continuing to provide services and goods on customary payment terms.
ITEM 2.04 TRIGGERING EVENTS THAT ACCELERATE OR INCREASE A DIRECT FINANCIAL OBLIGATION OR AN
OBLIGATION UNDER AN OFF-BALANCE SHEET ARRANGEMENT
The disclosure under Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference into
this Item 2.04. The failure to deliver the Term Sheet on or prior to July 20, 2009 triggered a
Repayment Obligation and absent effectiveness of the Seventeenth Amendment, a failure by Delphi to
satisfy the Repayment Obligation on July 21, 2009 would have been an event of default under the
Accommodation Agreement and could have resulted in a termination of the accommodation period. See
the terms of the Seventeenth Amendment described in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K.
ITEM 8.01 OTHER EVENTS
Delphi also announced today that as part of its efforts to facilitate further consensual
discussions among representatives of General Motors Company (GM),Platinum Equity, the lenders
under the Amended and Restated DIP Credit Facility and other stakeholders, the United States
(U.S.) Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (the Court) has rescheduled the
auction previously scheduled for July 21, 2009 to Friday, July 24, 2009 and will now commence the
hearing on Delphis modifications to its previously confirmed plan of reorganization, as filed with
the Court on June 1, 2009 (the Modified Plan), on July 29, 2009. Delphi also announced that
agreements have been reached with its official unsecured creditors committee and Wilmington Trust
Corporation, the indenture trustee for several series of unsecured notes, to withdraw their
objections to, and support, the Modified Plan, whether based on the Master Disposition Agreement
involving Platinum and GM or the pure credit bid submitted by the Administrative Agent on behalf of
Delphis DIP Lenders. Delphi previously stated that the deadline for submission by qualified
bidders of potential alternative transactions passed without the submission of any potential
alternative transactions from three third-party qualified bidders. Delphi will proceed with the
auction process, however, because the company timely received a pure credit bid notice and pure
credit bid support letter from JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in its capacity as administrative agent
under the Amended and Restated DIP Credit Facility. The Company expects to announce the outcome of
the auction process on or about July 27, 2009. For additional information regarding these matters,
see the press release issued by the Company on July 21, 2009, a copy of which is attached as
Exhibit 99(b) attached hereto and the contents of which are incorporated by reference herein.
Additionally, Delphi announced that on July 21, 2009, Delphi reached agreement with the Pension
Benefit Guaranty Corporation (the PBGC) to settle the PBGCs various claims against Delphi and
its global affiliates. Pursuant to that settlement agreement, the PBGC will receive a $3 billion
allowed general unsecured non-priority claim which will receive the same treatment given to holders
of general unsecured claims as set forth in the Modified Plan. The PBGC will
receive additional consideration from GM which, together with the PBGCs allowed unsecured claim,
is in consideration for, among other things, a full release of all causes of action, claims, and
liens; the liability to be assumed by the PBGC related to the possible termination of the U.S.
salaried plan, U.S. hourly plan, and U.S. subsidiary plans; and the withdrawal of all notices of
liens filed by the PBGC against Delphis global non-U.S. affiliates. The settlement agreement,
which is subject to
Court approval, was filed with the Court on July 21, 2009 and is attached hereto as Exhibit 99(c)
and incorporated by reference herein.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This Current Report on Form 8-K, including the exhibits being filed as part of this report, as well
as other statements made by Delphi may contain forward-looking statements that reflect, when made,
the Companys current views with respect to current events and financial performance. Such
forward-looking statements are and will be, as the case may be, subject to many risks,
uncertainties and factors relating to the Companys operations and business environment which may
cause the actual results of the Company to be materially different from any future results, express
or implied, by such forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify these statements by
forward-looking words such as may, might, will, should, expects, plans, anticipates,
believes, estimates, predicts, potential or continue, the negative of these terms and
other comparable terminology. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from
these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the following: the ability of the
Company to continue as a going concern; the ability of the Company to operate pursuant to the terms
of its liquidity support agreements with GM, its debtor-in-possession financing facility and the
related accommodation agreement, and to obtain an extension of term or other amendments as
necessary to maintain access to such liquidity support agreements and facility; the Companys
ability to obtain Court approval with respect to motions in the Chapter 11 cases prosecuted by it
from time to time, including final approval to further modify the Plan which was confirmed by the
Court on January 25, 2008, to confirm such further modified plan or any other subsequently filed
plan of reorganization and to consummate such plan or other consensual resolution of Delphis
Chapter 11 cases; risks associated with third parties seeking and obtaining Court approval to
terminate or shorten the exclusivity period for the Company to propose and confirm one or more
plans of reorganization, for the appointment of a Chapter 11 trustee or to convert the cases to
Chapter 7 cases; the ability of the Company to obtain and maintain normal terms with vendors and
service providers; the Companys ability to maintain contracts that are critical to its operations;
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potential adverse impact of the Chapter 11 cases on the Companys liquidity or results of
operations; the ability of the Company to fund and execute its business plan as described in the
proposed modifications to its Plan as filed with the Court and to do so in a timely manner; the
ability of the Company to attract, motivate and/or retain key executives and associates; the
ability of the Company to avoid or continue to operate during a strike, or partial work stoppage or
slow down by any of its unionized employees or those of its principal customers and the ability of
the Company to attract and retain customers. Additional factors that could affect future results
are identified in the Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008
filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, including the risk factors in Part
I. Item 1A. Risk Factors, contained therein and in Part II. Item 1A. Risk Factors in the Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2009. Delphi disclaims any intention or
obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new
information, future events and/or otherwise. Similarly, these and other factors, including the
terms of any reorganization plan ultimately confirmed, can affect the value of the Companys
various prepetition liabilities, common stock and/or other equity securities. It is possible that
Delphis common stock may have no value and claims relating to prepetition liabilities may receive
no value.
ITEM 9.01 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS
(d) Exhibits. The following exhibits are being filed as part of this report.
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99 (a)
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Seventeenth Amendment to the Accommodation Agreement, dated as of July 21, 2009 |
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99 (b)
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Press release issued by Delphi Corporation July 21, 2009 |
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99 (c)
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Settlement Agreement between Delphi Corporation and the Pension Benefit
Guaranty Corporation, dated as of July 21, 2009 |
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused
this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
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Date: July 22, 2009
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DELPHI CORPORATION
(Registrant)
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/s/ JOHN D. SHEEHAN
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John D. Sheehan, |
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Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |
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