Americanas, backed by the billionaire trio that founded investment firm 3G Capital, entered bankruptcy protection last week after disclosing “inconsistencies” in its accounting, leading top investors such as BlackRock and Capital Group to scale back their positions in the firm.
The list provided on Wednesday includes roughly 41.2 billion reais ($8.1 billion) in debt, according to the court, which initially did not disclose the names of the creditors.
Later, Americanas revealed the full list of 7,720 creditors in a securities filing, ranging from small debts with individuals and cities to multi-billion-reais debts with banks.
Deutsche Bank topped the list of creditors disclosed by Americanas with $1 billion, but the German lender later said it had no exposure to the retailer and would not be affected by its bankruptcy.
“Deutsche Bank is not affected as it neither has a lending relationship nor any credit exposure to the company in question,” it…
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