Talam Corp hopes to be removed from PN17 soon

This risk worth to take? Depend on you loh. Is this call small knife cut big tree?

I don't know.


Written by Tony Goh
Thursday, 23 July 2009 17:58

KUALA LUMPUR: Talam Corp Bhd, which had completed its financial regularisation plan, hopes to emerge from the Practice Note 17 status soon.

Its executive director, Chua Kim Lan said on July 23 all financial instruments, which were part of its regularisation plan, had been issued.

"We will now submit the application to Bursa Malaysia for the uplifting the PN17 status this week. From the feedback we have from our meeting with Bursa's representative, we are quite confident it will be successful," she told reporters after the shareholders meeting.

As part of the revamp, the company had issued redeeemable convertible preference shares 2009/2014. The additional 60.13 million new shares arising from the conversion of the preference shares were listed on July 23.

According to Chua, other divestment plans to pare down the company borrowings, such as disposal of properties and land are ongoing.

Talam is looking at disposing more than 3,000 acres of land, from its current total land bank of around 7,000 acres. The majority land to be disposed will be from the company's Bandar Bukit Beruntung developement.

"After the completion of asset and land disposals, the company will have almost no gearing, and we can start anew," Chua said.

Talam has around RM700 million in total borrowings, including outstanding irredeemable convertible unsecured loan stocks of more than RM300 million.

Chua said Talam will now focus on completing its outstanding projects, and aims to achieve at least 95% completion rate by the end of the year.

She added that there will be no new property launches by Talam this year, but will start some of the joint venture projects such as Sierra Ukay, Sierra Selayang and Ukay Perdana next year. These projects have a combined gross develoement value of more than RM1.4 billion.