Company: OIA
Filing Date: 2025-02-07
Form Type: N-2/A
Source: 0001104659-25-010545
Chunk: 177

Company: Invesco Municipal Income Opportunities Trust
Filing Date: 2025-02-07
Form: N-2/A
Chunk 177
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 the next five years to support PRASA’s ongoing effort to improve water quality and safety for the people of Puerto Rico. On January 18, 2022, Judge Laura Taylor Swain confirmed the Commonwealth Plan of Adjustment restructuring approximately $35 billion of debt and other claims against the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Public Buildings Authority (PBA), and ERS, as well as more than $50 billion of unfunded pension liabilities. The Plan of Adjustment saves Puerto Rico more than $50 billion in debt service and reduces outstanding obligations to just over $7 billion. On January 18, 2022, the Title III Court entered its Findings of Fact and Confirmation Order with respect to the Eighth Amended Plan. Between January 28, 2022, and February 17, 2022, six appeals of the Confirmation Order were filed in the First Circuit. By March 11, 2022, the First Circuit denied all parties’ motions for stay pending appeal. On March 15, 2022, the conditions precedent to the Effective Date of the Eighth Amended Plan were satisfied and/or waived by the Oversight Board, and the plan became effective. On the Effective Date, the principal elements of the Eighth Amended Plan were executed reducing the Commonwealth’s total funded debt obligations from approximately $34.3 billion of prepetition debt to approximately $7.4 billion, representing a total debt reduction of 78%. This debt reduction will also reduce the Commonwealth’s maximum annual debt service (inclusive of COFINA) from approximately $4.2 billion to $1.15 billion, representing a total debt service reduction of 73%. Also as of the Effective Date, all of the legacy Commonwealth general obligation bonds, ERS bonds, and PBA bonds were discharged, and all of the Commonwealth, ERS, and PBA obligations and guarantees related thereto were discharged. In addition, all Commonwealth laws that required the transfer of funds from the Commonwealth to other entities have been deemed preempted, and the Commonwealth has no obligation to transfer additional amounts pursuant to those laws. Importantly, effectuating the Eighth Amended Plan provides a path for Puerto Rico to access the credit markets and develop balanced annual budgets. A critical component of the Eighth Amended Plan is the post-effective date issuance of new general obligation bonds (the “New GO Bonds”) and contingent value instruments (CVIs) that will be used to provide recoveries to general obligation and PBA bondholders, and to HTA and Puerto Rico Infrastructure Financing Authority bondholders under separate re