Chinese developer Shimao Group
said on Monday that China Construction Bank had
filed a liquidation petition against it in Hong Kong over unpaid
debts, a rare case of a state-owned bank taking such.
A liquidation petition filed against China's Country Garden will ramp up pressure on the embattled developer to come to the negotiating table for debt restructuring talks, some of its offshore creditors, advisers, and analysts said. The liquidation order against peer China Evergrande in January will also inject urgency into Country Garden to start formal discussions with creditors, they said. Country Garden said on Wednesday a liquidation petition had been filed against it in a Hong Kong court for non-payment of a $205 million loan by a creditor, Ever Credit Limited, a unit of Hong Kong-listed Kingboard Holdings.