Nov 29 (Reuters) - Hedge fund Coliseum Capital Management LLC, the third-largest shareholder of Performance Sports Group Ltd PSG.TO , said it was in talks with a third party related to a potential deal involving the maker of Bauer ice hockey gear.
Performance Sports, which filed for bankruptcy protection in October, has received a "stalking horse" bid from its largest shareholder Sagard Capital Partners LP and Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd FFH.TO .
A "stalking horse" bid is an opening offer that other interested bidders must surpass if they want to buy the company.
Sagard and Fairfax have agreed to buy most of the company's assets and its North American units for $575 million.
Coliseum Capital said on Tuesday it had received consent from Performance Sports' financial adviser to begin discussions with an affiliate of one of the buyers of the sports gear maker, according to a regulatory filing on Tuesday. Sports has also received interest from its former chairman, who said in October he was talking with U.S. and Canadian private equity firms about submitting a bid. New Hampshire-based Performance Sports had filed last month for bankruptcy protection in the United States and Canada to facilitate a restructuring and sale of almost all of its assets after it defaulted on a loan payment by missing a deadline.
Bloomberg in October reported citing sources that Brookfield Asset Management BAMa.TO was considering a bid for troubled Performance Sports.