GE announces broad restructuring, to keep health care, aviation, and energy units – CNBC

General Electric set forth a new agenda as it tries to restructure its way back to stronger growth, with earnings estimates lower than Wall Street forecasts, a reduced dividend and an aggressive corporate restructuring. The Boston-based 125-year-old industrial conglomerate also said it was cutting the number of seats on its board. Investors had initially reacted…

Pacific Drilling Begins Chapter 11 Process to Optimize Capital Structure; World-Wide Operations Expected to Continue … – Business Wire (press release)

LUXEMBOURG–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Pacific Drilling S.A. (OTCPink: PACDF) today announced that, with the aim to optimize its capital structure pending recovery in the floating rig drilling industry, it and certain of its domestic and international subsidiaries have filed petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for…

Alleged Drug Kingpin Leads Venezuela’s Debt Restructuring Effort – Fox Business

CARACAS, Venezuela — Meet the team in charge of the most complex bond restructuring in recent history: a former military officer, a one-time geography professor, two engineers, a minister under sanctions for alleged corruption and an alleged drug kingpin. Continue Reading Below As the country runs out of cash, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro last week…