China’s HNA in Talks With Bad Debt Firm Cinda, Extends $43 Billion Asset Sales

China’s HNA in Talks With Bad Debt Firm Cinda, Extends $43 Billion Asset Sales
A HNA Group logo is seen on the building of HNA Plaza in Beijing on Feb. 9, 2018. Jason Lee/Reuters
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HONG KONG—Chinese conglomerate HNA Group has turned to state-owned China Cinda Asset Management Co among the country’s largest bad debt managers, for advice on asset disposals, people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

HNA Group’s vice president, Dennis Chen, the nephew of its chairman Chen Feng, met with Cinda President Chen Xiaozhou on Nov. 20 to discuss cooperation, according to the people, who declined to be named as the information is confidential.