Luxemburg, March 1, 2013 - Northland Resources S.A. (TSX: NAU, OSE: NAUR, Frankfurt: NPK, First North/Nasdaq: NAURo - "Northland" or "the Company") hereby announces that the preliminary reorganization plan for the Company's Swedish subsidiaries was presented at today's meeting of creditors. The creditors expressed their support of the continued reorganization.
As previously announced, the Luleå District Court today held a meeting of creditors in the companies in reorganization, Northland Resources AB (publ), Northland Sweden AB and Northland Logistics AB.
The administrator, Lars Söderqvist, accounted for the measures undertaken to date, such as the ongoing contacts and negotiations that have taken place with the companies' suppliers with the objective of the companies' operations being able to continue during the reorganization period. Questions from suppliers and creditors have been answered on an ongoing basis. In addition, written information on the superior right of priority has been prepared. Furthermore, procedures have been established for the management of payments during the reorganization of the companies.
The earlier assessment that the companies are sufficient, i.e. that the value of their assets exceeds that of their liabilities, remains unchanged. It should, however, be noted that the valuation of the assets, and thus the assessment of sufficiency, is based on a going concern assumption, that is, the assumption that the operations will continue over a foreseeable future. If, instead the assessment was to be made based on sale values (liquidation values) of the individual assets, the outcome would be uncertain.
Within the framework of the reorganization, short-term financing takes high priority and several alternative solutions to the matter are being examined in parallel. Among these, the following can be mentioned:
. Discussions with key suppliers on the supply of goods and services on credit with a credit term of 45 days against collateral in the form of superior rights of priority.
. Contacts with external financiers regarding the provision of short -term loans against collateral in the form of superior rights of priority.
. Negotiations with the company's principal creditors regarding injections of liquidity.
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