1MDB to Reach Out to Dollar Bondholders on Payment Default

  • Malaysian firm appoints Alvarez & Marsal as financial adviser
  • Fund will explain why it didn't make interest payments

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1Malaysia Development Bhd., the state-owned investment company that defaulted on a $1.75 billion bond last month following a dispute with a co-guarantor, is reaching out to dollar bondholders to explain why it didn’t pay the interest on the notes.

A call to holders of its dollar-denominated securities will take place on May 23, 1MDB said in an e-mailed statBloomberg TerminalementBloomberg Terminal Monday. The Kuala Lumpur-based firm appointed Alvarez & Marsal Asia Ltd. as its financial adviser and D.F. King Ltd., an Orient Capital company, to carry out the bondholder identification and registration process.