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Ad Hoc Group Letter to PREPA Bondholders

The Ad Hoc Group of PREPA Bondholders (the “Ad Hoc Group”) are institutional investors that 

hold approximately 47% of all uninsured PREPA bonds. Members of the Ad Hoc Group have

been involved in restructuring negotiations and discussions with PREPA and the Oversight Board 

for more than seven years. All of the members of the Ad Hoc Group were engaged in intensive 

mediation and plan discussions with the Oversight Board and PREPA from April 8, 2022 through 

December 16, 2022, and all intend to object to and vote “no” on this Plan. We want to explain 

why, as you make your decision.

Bondholders should understand that the information contained herein may be disputed by the 

Oversight Board and other parties. Statements expressed herein are the views of the Ad Hoc 

Group, and may not be attributed to any other party. This letter does not provide legal advice 

or investment advice. You should review the Plan and Disclosure Statement in full and with 

your own professionals before making a final determination on your vote to accept or reject the 

Plan.

If you hold PREPA bonds, then your claim will fall into one of two classes under PREPA’s Plan: 

Class 1 or Class 2. Class 1 comprises Bondholders that wish to settle with the Oversight Board 

for a purported recovery of 50% of the outstanding bond principal. Class 2 comprises Bondholders 

that do not wish to settle their claims in advance, and depending on the result of the Amended Lien 

& Recourse Challenge, may recover up to approximately 55% of the outstanding bond principal. 

First, the Plan arbitrarily caps recoveries for Bondholders and provides Bondholders with low 

levels of recovery that are arbitrary and are far from substantiated. The Oversight Board does not 

attempt to justify the Plan’s $5.4 billion cap on total distributable value or explain why it cannot 

at least pay the amount in its final offer just one month before the termination of mediation, which 

contemplated approximately $7.8 billion of total value. 

The Ad Hoc Group believes PREPA can afford to pay its creditors significantly more than the Plan 

provides, and the Oversight Board has admitted as much. To understand the Oversight Board’s 

prior offers to Bondholders and what the Ad Hoc Group believes that PREPA can afford to pay 

Bondholders, Bondholders should review the 2019 RSA (available at

https://emma.msrb.org/ES1303869-ES1019724-ES1421269.pdf) and the proposals the Oversight 

Board made in September and November of 2022 (attached to the Disclosure Statement as Exhibits 

[ ] and [ ], respectively), as well as the additional disclosure materials the Ad Hoc Group published

in December 2022 (attached to the Disclosure Statement as Exhibit [ ]) before voting on the Plan.

Second, the Ad Hoc Group believes that the new bonds being offered to bondholders (Series B 

Bonds) are not market securities – and, in fact, could be worth a fraction of the nominal amount 

that the Oversight Board purports to offer to Bondholders. Unlike the traditional revenue bonds

that you own today, these bonds contain no covenant that requires PREPA to raise rates in an 

amount sufficient to pay debt, much less operating expenses, and the revenue stream to pay bonds 

is wholly subordinate and subject to whatever operating expenses may arise in PREPA’s future, 

with no adjustment for inflation over the thirty-five (35) year life of the bonds. The Ad Hoc Group 

will not accept these securities as currently structured because they are not even worth their face 

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amount; it will vote against any plan that contains these terms; and it does not think that any market 

participant would want to buy bonds on these terms, making them illiquid.

Other examples of the Series B Bonds’ non-market terms include: 

• The Series B-1 Bonds’ interest rate of six (6) percent is not a market rate of interest; their 

subordination to the Series A Bonds and longer duration warrant a higher coupon than the 

six (6) percent being provided to the Series A Bonds;1

• Interest accrual on Series B Bonds will cease after the final maturity of 50 years;

• The Series B Bonds may be subject to amendments that delay or extend their expected 

repayment date and expected weighted average life; 

• Interest on the Series B Bonds that accrues pre-maturity, but is not paid pre-maturity, is 

waived; 

• The Indenture Trustee’s fees may be capped in the event of default;

• The Indenture Trustee’s ability to enforce bondholder rights is severely limited, including 

no ability to move for a rate increase or appoint a receiver to manage the system; and

• There is no assurance that the Series B Bonds will have adequate protections against the 

issuance of Additional Bonds or Refunding Bonds that could impair the Series B Bonds.

Third, it could take at least a year and possibly longer to distribute the Series B Bonds to creditors 

under the Plan, and there is no accrual of interest that compensates bondholders for this delay.

Fourth, the settlement offer you may have received was highly misleading, and fails to offer any 

meaningful settlement to Bondholders for the billions of dollars that will have accrued by the 

Plan’s Effective Date on the PREPA Bonds over the almost six years since the Petition Date. If 

you settle, you are estimated to receive no more than 50 cents on the dollar despite misleading

suggestions that a 100-cent recovery is possible. Any recovery beyond 50% requires bondholders 

to lose on the non-recourse issue in the Amended Lien & Recourse Challenge. The Ad Hoc Group

believes that this would be an improbable result and that the Court is unlikely to rule in the 

Oversight Board’s favor on this issue. Thus, any recovery for Settling Bondholders is unlikely to 

be higher than 50% of their claim. 

Moreover, there is also the risk that, if the Oversight Board wins the Amended Lien & Recourse 

Challenge, it will retract the Plan and instead offer even harsher treatment to PREPA creditors, as 

it has done before in its prior settlement agreements with bondholders. 

Even if you accepted the settlement offer that was sent to you, potentially because you were not 

provided with a full list of disclosures and risk factors, you can still vote against the Plan. The Ad 

Hoc Group believes that the recoveries offered to Bondholders under the Plan are substantially 

 

1 The Series B-2 Bonds are further subordinate to the Series B-1 Bonds and only have a marginally higher interest 

rate (6.75%) than the Series A and Series B-1 Bonds. 

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less than what PREPA can and should pay to Bondholders. If you do not accept the settlement 

offer, you preserve your ability to argue at confirmation that PREPA can afford to pay its creditors 

more than what the Plan is offering and that Bondholders are entitled to receive bonds that contain 

market terms and are actually worth the amount contemplated.

For these reasons, the members of the Ad Hoc Group intend to vote no on the plan. 

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