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<b><i>Millennium Lab</i></b>
Prepetition, Millennium Lab Holdings II, LLC, Millennium Health, LLC, and RxAnte, LLC (the Debtors) reached a settlement with various government entities (the USA Settling Parties) relating to, among other things, claims against the Debtors for violations of the Stark law, Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims Act (FCA). The Debtors also negotiated a restructuring support agreement with an ad hoc group of lenders (the Ad Hoc Group) holding debt under a 2014 existing credit agreement in the original principal amount of $1.825 billion (the Credit Agreement). In re Millennium Lab Holdings II, LLC, 543 B.R. 703, 705 (Bankr. D. Del. 2016).
The terms of the settlements included: 1) a $325 million payment from the equity holders to the Debtors; 2) conversion of the Credit Agreement into a $600 million new term loan; 3) transfer of the Debtors' equity interests to the lenders under the Credit Agreement (the Lenders); 4) creation of two trusts; 5) a $206 million payment to the USA Settling Parties; 6) full recovery for all creditors except the Lenders; and 7) non-debtor third-party releases (the Releases) of the Debtors' equity holders and their officers and directors. Id. at 706.
Since the Debtors did not receive sufficient votes from the Lenders for an out-of-court restructuring, on Nov. 10, 2015, the Debtors filed petitions for Chapter 11 relief together with a proposed prepackaged plan (the Plan) in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (the bankruptcy court). The Plan incorporated all of the terms of the prepetition settlements with the USA Settling Parties and the Ad Hoc Group, including the Releases. Id.
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