SVB said it filed for a court-supervised reorganization under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to seek buyers for its assets, days after its former unit Silicon Valley Bank was taken over by U.S. regulators
SVB Securities and SVB Capital's funds and general partner entities are not included in the Chapter 11 filing and the company said it planned to proceed with the process to evaluate alternatives for the businesses, as well its other assets and investments.on Wednesday that the parent company was exploring seeking bankruptcy protection for selling assets.
Californian regulators shuttered Silicon Valley Bank last Friday, making it the largest collapse since Washington Mutual went bust during the financial crisis of 2008.The tech lender was forced to sell a portfolio of treasuries and mortgage-backed securities to at a $1.8 billion loss after a rise is yields eroded value. To plug that hole, it attempted to raise $2.25 billion in common equity and preferred convertible stock but spooked clients pulled deposits from the bank that led to $42 billion of outflows in a day.
The company said on Friday it has about $2.2 billion of liquidity. It had $209 billion in assets at the end of last year.
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