{"id":33629,"date":"2022-09-20T02:10:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T05:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=33629"},"modified":"2026-04-23T04:45:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:45:42","slug":"let-group-holdings-enters-into-us51m-loan-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/let-group-holdings-enters-into-us51m-loan-agreement","title":{"rendered":"LET Group Holdings enters into US$51m loan agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LET Group has pledged approximately 69.67 per cent of Summit Ascent Holdings Ltd&#8217;s total issued shares to secure the loan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Hong Kong.-\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/let-group-holdings-appoints-lo-kai-bong-as-chairman\" target=\"_blank\">LET Group Holdings Ltd<\/a>, the former Suncity Group Holdings, has announced through a company filing that<strong> it has entered into a loan agreement with four independent third-party lenders<\/strong> for HK$400m (US$51m) for a term of 12 months maturing on September 18, 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The interest rate payable is over 18 per cent per annum; or an aggregate of 13 per cent per annum and the HK$ prime lending rate payable quarterly in arrears.\u00a0The default interest rate payable would be the aggregate of the interest rate and 6 per cent per annum, payable on demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To secure the loan, the company and Victor Sky Holdings Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of LET Group Holdings, pledged 123,255,000 and 3,018,306,811 ordinary shares in Summit Ascent Holdings Limited, respectively.\u00a0On the date of the announcement, the pledged shares represent approximately 69.67 per cent of the total issued shares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/major-success-group-ups-offer-for-let-group-holdings\" target=\"_blank\">LET Group Holdings<\/a>\u00a0said that HK$380m of the loan will be utilised for<strong> the full repayment of the promissory note <\/strong>including interest accrued thereon and for the partial repayment of the 2018 convertible bonds.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company said: &#8220;Upon completion of the aforementioned repayment, the remaining outstanding amount due together with interest accrued thereon under the 2018 convertible bonds will be approximately HK$226m. The remaining balance of the loan after deducting the relevant expenses will be used as general working capital of the group.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LET Group has pledged approximately 69.67 per cent of Summit Ascent Holdings Ltd&#8217;s total issued shares to secure the loan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":13232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"LET Group Holdings, formerly Suncity Group Holdings, has secured a HK$400m (US$51m) 12-month loan at an interest rate exceeding 18% per annum. The loan is collateralized by approximately 69.67% of Summit Ascent Holdings Ltd's total issued shares and will primarily be utilized for the full repayment of a promissory note, partial repayment of 2018 convertible bonds, and general working capital.","focusai_entities":"LET Group Holdings Ltd, Suncity Group Holdings, Summit Ascent Holdings Ltd, Victor Sky Holdings Limited","focusai_location":"Hong Kong","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (0.7), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (0.8), investor_analyst (1.0), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Debt Restructuring Impact","query":"What are the specific implications of this high-interest loan on LET Group's overall debt servicing capacity and its long-term capital structure, particularly concerning the remaining HK$226m in convertible bonds?"},{"label":"Summit Ascent Governance","query":"How does the pledging of nearly 70% of Summit Ascent Holdings' shares impact its corporate governance framework and the strategic autonomy of its management, given the potential for lender intervention in a default scenario?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[24197,23702],"class_list":["post-33629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-let-group-holdings","tag-suncity-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33661,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33629\/revisions\/33661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}