OREANDA-NEWS. December 28, 2009. Astana-finance (Astana), bonds of which are present in Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) official list, informed KASE that on December 21, 2009, in Astana was held the meeting of Astana-finance (hereinafter - the company) managers with internal creditors where the company informed creditors on debts restructuring and last events occurred from the last meeting opn December 26, 2009.

Creditors were proposed following measures:

- Presence of the internal creditors committee representative as the company Board of Directors member duiring obligations fulfillment
- Restriction of selling, transfer and other assets flow till the restructuring completion, except for agreed on in the restructuring plan
- Cancellation of dividends payment on common shares till the restructured debt payment date
- Limitation of sale of large assets in post-restructuring period

It is intended that the senior debt holders, except for accumulative pension funds, will be proposed: writing off by 65%, to the left 35% will be issued new bonds with 7 years of maturity (the amount on this group will be limited by the company ability to serve loans in initial 7 years) and the stake in the company capital after restructuring.

Pension funds, holders of senior bonds are proposed two options: conversion to the capital or transfer of existing loan to subordinated debt with maturity of 20 years with 9 years of preference period.

Senior debts holders: transfer of existing loan to subordinated debt with maturity of 20 years with 9 years of preference period.

On subordinated loans: extension the repayment schedule to 25 years with 15 years of preference period.

Also, it is planned till December 28, 2009 to sign the Memorandum of Understanding with basic principles and intentions for further detailed restructuring plan and till January 2010 to sign a Term sheet between the company and the internal creditors committee.

At present the company signed the term sheet with international creditors commiee.

On export-credit organizations the Due Diligence is being implemented.

By the meeting results the internal creditors committee expressed an interest and supported the proposed plan.