Walter Investment Management Corp. Files Amended '8-K' With the Securities Exchange...

Fri Jul 10, 2009 6:52pm EDT
 
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Walter Investment Management Corp. Files Amended '8-K' With the Securities
Exchange Commission

TAMPA, Fla., July 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Walter Investment Management
Corp. (NYSE Amex: WAC) an asset manager, mortgage servicer and mortgage
portfolio owner announced today it has filed an amended 8-K with the
Securities Exchange Commission.

The amended 8-K includes the audited financial statements of Walter Investment
Management, LLC. ("Spinco") as of December 31, 2008 and 2007, and for the
three years ended December 31, 2008, 2007 and 2006, the unaudited interim
financial statements as of March 31, 2009, and for the three months ended
March 31, 2009 and 2008, and the unaudited pro forma condensed combined
financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2008 and as of March 31,
2009 and the three months then ended. As reflected in the Registration
Statement on Form S-4 filed by Hanover Capital Mortgage Holdings, Inc.
("Hanover")  in conjunction with the merger of Hanover and Spinco, Spinco was
the transferee of the Financing business of JWH Holding Company, LLC.
("JWHHC").  JWHHC, was the parent of the entities comprising Walter
Industries, Inc's Financing business, as well as its Homebuilding business. 
The JWHHC financial statements were included in the Form S-4 with all of the
Financing business in continuing operations, with the Homebuilding business
treated as a discontinued operation of JWHHC.  The financial statements
included in the Exhibits to the Form 8-K/A filed today are those of Spinco,
which represents only the assets and liabilities of the Financing business
transferred to Spinco prior to the merger.  Thus, the financial statements of
Spinco differ from those of JWHHC in part because they do not include the
discontinued operations of the Homebuilding business, which was never owned by
Spinco. The remaining differences between continuing operations reflected in
the JWHHC financial statements and in the Spinco financial statements
represent the elimination of the worker's compensation program in the captive
insurance business that was part of the Financing business but was not
transferred to Spinco.  Financial statement line items impacted by this
difference are other assets, accounts payable, accrued expenses, premium
revenue and claims expense.

The combined financial statements of Walter Mortgage Company ("WMC"), Best
Insurors ("Best") and Walter Investment Reinsurance Company, Ltd. ("WIRC")
(collectively representing substantially all of the Financing business) are
considered the predecessor to Spinco for accounting purposes.  Thus, the
combined financial statements of WMC, Best and WIRC have become the Company's
historical financial statements for periods prior to the Merger.

On July 7, 2009, the Company notified the NYSE Amex ("Amex" or the "Exchange")
of its failure to timely file the financial information required for Spinco in
a Form 8-K/A due on July 6, 2009 resulting from the change in financial
statement from JWHHC to Spinco. On July 8, 2009, the Company received notice
from Amex that, due to the failure to timely file the pro forma financial
statements of the business acquired on April 17, 2009, the Company did not
meet certain of the Exchange's continued listing standards.  Specifically, the
notice provided that the Company was not in compliance with Sections 134 and
1101 of the NYSE Amex LLC Company Guide and therefore is in violation of its
listing agreement with the Exchange.  The Company has filed financial
information related to the business acquired on April 17, 2009 that was
required to be reported by the Company by July 6, 2009 as Exhibits to the Form
8-K/A.  The Company believes that as a result of this filing, it has taken all
action necessary to bring the Company back into compliance with the Exchange's
continued listing standards, but awaits formal confirmation by the Exchange.

About Walter Investment Management Corp.

Walter Investment Management Corp. is an asset manager, mortgage servicer and
mortgage portfolio owner specializing in subprime, non-conforming and other
credit-challenged mortgage assets. Based in Tampa, Fla., the Company currently
has $1.9 billion of assets under management and pro-forma annual revenues of
approximately $200 million.  The Company is structured as a real estate
investment trust ("REIT") and employs approximately 225 people.  For more
information about Walter Investment Management Corp., please visit the
Company's website at www.walterinvestment.com.

Safe Harbor Statement

    --  Certain statements in this release may constitute
        "forward-looking" statements as defined in Section 27A of the
        Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities
        Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Walter Investment Management Corp.
is
        including this cautionary statement to make applicable and take
        advantage of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities
        Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements that are not historical fact
        are forward-looking statements. The use of words such as
        "believe" and similar expressions are intended to identify
        forward looking statements.  Such forward-looking statements involve
        known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors
that
        could cause the actual results, performance or achievements, to differ
        materially from future results, performance or achievements. The
        forward-looking statements are based on the Company's current
        belief, intentions and expectations. These statements are not
guarantees
        or indicative of future performance. The Company's future financial
        condition and results of operations, as well as any forward-looking
        statements, are subject to change and inherent risks and
uncertainties.
        These risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, the
        possibility that Amex does not agree that the filing of the Form 8K/A
        brings the company into compliance with the Exchange's continuing
        listing standards.



All forward looking statements set forth herein are qualified by these
cautionary statements and are made only as of July 10, 2009. The Company
undertakes no obligation to update or revise the information contained herein
whether as a result of new information, subsequent events or circumstances or
otherwise, unless otherwise required by law.


SOURCE  Walter Investment Management Corp.

Investor and Media, Whitney Finch, Director of Investor Relations,
+1-813-872-7196, wfinch@walterinvestment.com

 

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