GM Creditors Sue JPMorgan, Claim $1.4 Billion Loan Unsecured

Bloomberg reports:

The committee representing General Motors Corp.’s unsecured creditors sued JPMorgan Chase & Co. and dozens of other lenders, claiming a $1.4 billion loan they made to the automaker before it filed for bankruptcy was unsecured.

Lenders on the syndicated loan, which predated GM’s Chapter 11 filing on June 1, didn’t have a perfected lien on GM’s assets and so shouldn’t have had their claims paid ahead of other creditors, according to the complaint filed yesterday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York.