Source: Seeking Alpha
Anadarko -12.5% AH as Kerr-McGee unit held liable in Tronox spinoff
- Anadarko Petroleum -12.5% AH after a bankruptcy judge rules its Kerr-McGee unit Acted improperly in the 2005 spinoff of Tronox and should pay for environmental cleanup and to compensate people who claim damage from toxins.
- The U.S. government had sought to recover $25B to clean ~2,700 polluted sites and compensate about ~8,100 tort claimants; a trust set up to pay plaintiffs calls for 88% of the judgment to go to trusts for cleanup, according to court papers, with the remainder going to toxin claimants.
- The judge says APC and Kerr-McGee intended to “hinder and delay" when they transferred out and spun off oil and gas assets.
