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April 2015 NEWSAT LTD. PLACED IN ADMINISTRATION EMC TO ACQUIRE MTN On April 17, NewSat Ltd. (NewSat) and various On April 29, Emerging Markets Communications affiliates, including Jabiru Holdings LLC announced that it signed a definitive CONTACTS: Pty Ltd., were placed in administration in merger agreement to acquire MTN Satellite Australia by the trustee for its lenders, Citicorp Communications, Inc., a leading provider of Dara A. Panahy 202-835-7521 International, and related petitions were filed in communications and content services for [email protected] the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of remote locations around the world. The Delaware seeking Chapter 15 bankruptcy combined entity is poised to be one of the Bijan Ganji protection in the United States while the court- largest independent providers of satellite 202-835-7543 supervised restructuring proceeds in Australia. connectivity services across both land and sea. [email protected] NewSat was previously negotiating with its The acquisition is expected to close in the lenders, including the Export-Import Bank of second quarter of 2015, subject to regulatory

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