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Mexico’s TV Azteca Cites Court Ruling to Skip Quarterly Filing

Alex Vasquez and Michael O'Boyle
·1 min read

(Bloomberg) -- A Mexican court ordered TV Azteca SAB de CV, owned by Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego, not to present financial information to the public to avoid causing “uncertainty,” amid a legal battle in the US with the holders of $400 million of its defaulted bonds.

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The ruling also exempts the company from publishing its financial statements for the first quarter, after it delayed reporting its fourth quarter results to just before a limit that would have triggered a halt to trading in its stock.

The company said in a statement Wednesday that it will comply with the ruling of the Mexico City court, the same one that previously blocked the company from making bond payments last year, arguing that TV Azteca was not obligated to honor payments until the World Health Organization officially declared the end of the Covid-19 pandemic. The WHO made that decision last Friday, opening uncertainty on the impact on the legal sparring.

Read more: End-of-Pandemic Call Gives Shot to Defaulted Azteca Bondholders

The battle started in 2021, when TV Azteca stopped paying the bonds maturing in 2024 while still paying other debts in Mexico. Investors sued the company in the US, seeking to place it in Chapter 11, while TV Azteca sued them in Mexico.

In its lawsuit, the company said it wanted to restructure the debt because it was under rising pressure from falling advertising sales during the pandemic. TV Azteca said on its Wednesday statement that it will continue working with “strict financial discipline,” without providing further details on the ruling.

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