Exploring the challenges faced by borrowers in accessing revolving credit facilities due to lender scrutiny on purpose clauses and material adverse effect clauses, along with the diminishing importance of covenants in loan agreements.
The past few weeks have seen a marked increase in businesses drawing down their RCFs. In the era of cov-lite loans, extensive use of a revolver might be one of the first indications of financial distress, or, amid the coronavirus crisis, could indicate a company's desire to hoard cash for a rainy day. In this podcast, hosts Peter Washkowitz and Shweta Rao discuss the documentary implications of RCF draws, how a business may prevent a springing financial covenant in a RCF to spring, how a business may prevent a sprung covenant from being breached and what levers lenders have to refuse a draw.
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