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General Motors Company has regained full control of its Opel brand after paying back 1.5 billion Euro in emergency loan, including interest. The move dissolves a trust that held a [...]

GM Regains Full Control Of Opel

General Motors Company has regained full control of its Opel brand after paying back 1.5 billion Euro in emergency loan, including interest. The move dissolves a trust that held a 65 percent stake in the European carmaker.

“The shares in Adam Opel GmbH were returned to GM,” the German economics ministry said in a statement on Monday.

GM lost majority control of Opel in June, when the German government agreed to provide the Detroit automaker with a 6-month emergency loan to Opel, hours before GM filed for a pre-packaged bankruptcy.

The main idea behind the trust was to monitor Opel’s liquidity and oversee the sale of a majority stake to a new investor. Earlier this month GM’s board of directors decided to keep Opel and restructure it, terminating plans to sell the brand to Magna International.

Via egmCarTech

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