Evergrande deadline approaches, more Chinese developers seek to avoid default

said on Thursday it has withdrawn the rating at the firm's request. Shimao's onshore subsidiary Shanghai Shimao co confirmed on Thursday evening it has transferred funds to repay its 4.65% yuan bond with an outstanding principal of 1.9 billion yuan maturing on Saturday. But the firm has yet to say anything on an offshore coupon payment worth $28 million due on the same day. Shimao has another offshore coupon of $13 million due on Sunday and an onshore coupon of 22.5 million yuan due next Wednesday. Yuzhou up from 191 billion yuan in the fourth quarter of 2021. Developers are also desperately raising funds to repay debt. Major player Sunac China Holdings Ltd said on Thursday it would raise $580.1 million from a share sale. A source close to Sunac told Reuters the company has no further plan in the near term to place its shares or shares in unit Sunac Services to raise capital also announced an exchange offer for two of its 2022 dollar bonds due later this month - worth a total of $582 million - to extend the maturities by one year to avoid default. It expects a delay in coupon payments totalling $110 million that are due in January and February and Shimao is seeking to extend the payment deadlines to the end of 2022 while making some payments in stages before the new deadline. Shimao last week said it has missed payment on a $101 million trust loan. Rating agency SP sector giant China Evergrande is set to announce whether investors will give it more time to repay an onshore bond and avoid a technical default that could complicate its politically sensitive restructuring. The deadline to vote on the six-month delay in the redemption and coupon payments of the 4.5 billion-yuan bond runs out on Thursday. The world's most indebted property company has so far met payments on onshore bonds that make up the vast majority of its debt Yuzhou said in a filing. It is also seeking consent from holders of all of its other $4.5 billion dollar bonds to amend the terms that would help it avoid cross defaults if other bondholders seek repayment. MORE MAY COME Nomura estimates the sector's cash crunch could intensify with firms needing to meet onshore and offshore maturities totalling around 210 billion yuan each in the first and second quarter with Shimao Group and Yuzhou Group the latest seeking extensions as China Evergrande Group faces another deadline. Struggling with more than $300 billion in liabilities as its developers' combined onshore and offshore liabilities amount to almost 30% of the country's GDP. Shanghai-based Shimao will hold online meetings with creditors in two asset-backed securities on Jan. 17 more Chinese developers seek to avoid default HONG KONG/SHANGHAI - Cash-strapped Chinese developers are scrambling to negotiate new terms with creditors to avoid defaults according to documents seen by Reuters on Thursday. The two onshore ABS products - worth 1.17 billion yuan in total - are to mature later this month respectively. Shimao fell 9.4% while Yuzhou shed 6.9%. Evergrande dropped 3.6%. One of Yuzhou's yuan-denominated bonds tumbled 21.8% in the morning before it was ordered to temporarily halt trading. Two Shanghai-traded bonds of Shanghai Shimao were also suspended but after surging over 30%. smaller developer Agile Group pledged 65.6 million shares of its property management unit