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Exclusive: Music festival company SFX explores debt restructuring

Revelers attend a festival near the Danube River August 11, 2011. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo (Reuters)

(Reuters) - Electronic music festival organizer SFX Entertainment Inc , which puts on days-long dance extravaganzas including one known as 'Electric Zoo', is exploring a debt restructuring, a spokesman for its chief executive told Reuters on Monday. SFX has asked investment bank Moelis & Co to propose ways of slashing the company's debt pile, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, cautioning that no decision about a particular course of action has been taken. "It is correct that the company hired Moelis to examine broadly its position. That principally includes sales of non-strategic assets as well as examining the capital structure of the company," a spokesman for SFX CEO Robert F.X. Sillerman said when approached for comment. Moelis declined to comment. SFX has about $300 million in debt on a market capitalization of just $30 million. It has blamed the cancellation of several festival days as a result of poor weather, as well as the impact of foreign exchange, for its recent financial woes. (Reporting by Liana B. Baker and Jessica DiNapoli in New York; Editing by Andrew Hay)