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Derek Thompson - Derek Thompson is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he oversees business coverage for the website.
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He is a visiting research fellow at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget at the New America Foundation. Derek has also written for Slate, BusinessWeek, and the Daily Beast. He has appeared as a guest on radio and television networks, including NPR, the BBC, CNBC, and MSNBC.

G.M. Reaches a Deal With Bondholder Committee

By Derek Thompson
May 28 2009, 10:12 AM ET Comment

General Motors said in a regulatory filing on Thursday that it has proposed a new deal to a committee representing many of its largest bondholders, offering an equity stake of as much as 25 percent in the restructured automaker in exchange for not opposing G.M.'s reorganization plan.

The filing also fills out many of the details of that plan, crafted under the eye of the Treasury Department, which would be G.M.'s majority owner once it emerged from bankruptcy protection.



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