Alea Holdings US Company

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Case No.: 26-90714 · Texas Southern · Petition date: Jul 19, 2026

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Alea Holdings US Company Bankruptcy Case

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HearingsJuly 20, 2026

Alea begins solicitation ahead of September confirmation hearing

The court conditionally approved Alea’s disclosure statement and authorized solicitation beginning July 23, putting the debtors on a defined path toward plan confirmation. Under the confirmation and solicitation procedures order, the plan supplement is due August 28; votes and objections to the plan and disclosure statement are due September 2 at 4:00 p.m. CT; and the voting report and confirmation brief are due September 8 at 4:00 p.m. CT. The combined final disclosure-statement and confirmation hearing is set for September 10 at 1:00 p.m. CT.

The schedule moves Alea from announcing its prepetition subsidiary sales into an expedited solicitation and confirmation phase. Creditors now have a six-week window to evaluate the proposed treatment, resolve voting disputes, and object before the court considers confirmation.

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Province, LLC

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Alea Holdings US Company is in the opening stage of a pre-negotiated Chapter 11, operating under interim financing authority while pursuing a sponsor-backed plan centered on restructuring holding-company debt and selling two non-debtor insurance subsidiaries. No confirmation order or final financing order has been entered; the immediate gating events are the August 17 final financing hearing and the September 10 combined disclosure-statement and confirmation hearing.

Alea and its affiliates filed on July 19, 2026, after a prepetition tender for trust-preferred securities failed to obtain the required 100% acceptance. The holding companies oversee legacy insurance runoff businesses, and their liquidity and balance sheet had been strained by claim payments at non-debtor subsidiary SPARTA and the deferral of interest on the trust-preferred securities since 2023, according to the first-day declarationDkt. 11. They entered Chapter 11 with at least $231.0 million in funded debt, principally a senior secured Catalina Finance facility, while additional subordinated trust-preferred obligations remain part of the capital structure; the schedules and financial-affairs disclosuresDkt. 69 report that the secured facility balance includes revolving principal, capitalized interest and fees, and accrued interest.

The debtors filed their plan and disclosure statement with the petitions, reflecting a restructuring support agreement with Catalina Finance as plan sponsor and lender. The Chapter 11 planDkt. 12 would fund a $20 million cash pool for trust-preferred claims, provide negotiated treatment for Catalina's prepetition facility claims, leave general unsecured claims unimpaired, and use proceeds from the proposed sales of Alea North America Insurance Company and National American Insurance Company of California to help fund distributions. Those subsidiary sales were pending before the filing and remain subject to regulatory approval, making sale execution a central component of the emergence path.

On July 20, the court authorized consensual cash-collateral use and up to $35 million of postpetition borrowing from Catalina Finance on an interim basis, supported by superpriority claims and priming liens under the interim DIP and cash-collateral orderDkt. 47. The same order set the August 17 final hearing. Plan votes and objections are due September 2, followed by the September 10 confirmation hearing described in the disclosure statementDkt. 13; confirmation, regulatory progress on the subsidiary sales, and conversion of the interim financing package to final authority are the principal near-term milestones.