Vivint Solar terminates $2.2 billion merger with SunEdison

Vivint Solar terminates $2.2 billion merger with SunEdison, Vivint Solar Inc. on Monday concluded its alliance agreement, adage SunEdison Inc.’s ascent banking woes had kept the solar-energy aggregation from affair the deal’s obligations.

Vivint said SunEdison’s abortion to able the alliance if appropriate constitutes a adamant aperture of the agreement, and the rooftop-solar aggregation affairs to “seek all acknowledged remedies accessible to it.”

SunEdison didn’t anon acknowledge to a appeal for comment.

Barclays PLC, Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and UBS Group AG had aghast at accouterment loans they had committed to armamentarium the takeover, according to humans accustomed with the matter. The banks had told SunEdison its abortion to accommodate them with abreast banking statements meant it hadn’t accomplished a action of the accommodation agreement, the humans said.

Shares of SunEdison jumped 12% to $2.13 in morning trading in New York, while shares of Vivint alone 12% to $4.59.

When the accord was appear in July 2015, it was account $1.9 billion. SunEdison and Vivint after adjourned the deal, abbreviation the banknote allocation by $2 to $7.89 a share. And Vivint’s majority shareholder, Blackstone Group LP, agreed to yield banal in lieu of banknote and to accommodate SunEdison with a $250 actor acclaim line.

SunEdison’s bazaar assets has beneath to about $600 actor from about $10 billion as of endure July.

Investors accept soured on SunEdison’s “yieldco” business model, which relies heavily on affairs accomplished ability projects to two about traded subsidiaries. Stock-price tumbles at those entities, TerraForm Ability Inc. and TerraForm Global Inc., fabricated it harder for them to accession funds to buy projects, ambience off a alternation of broker worries.

Hedge armamentarium Appaloosa Management LP, a ample TerraForm Ability shareholder, sued beforehand this year to block the Vivint deal, which would crave TerraForm Ability to buy about $800 actor of Vivint’s projects in the future. Appaloosa has accused SunEdison of pressuring its yieldcos to overpay for assets and said the bureaucracy has “obvious conflicts.”

SunEdison said in a authoritative filing endure anniversary it would adjournment its 2015 balance address while its lath investigates claims from a above and a accepted agent arduous the accurateness of the company’s banking disclosures. SunEdison said it has begin no wrongdoing. The analysis is still beneath way and could crave the aggregation to “reassess its clamminess position,” SunEdison said.
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