As we enter a new year, I have been reflecting on a question I’m sometimes asked: if wide covenant flexibility is now the norm in the leveraged finance market, does understanding them really matter?
Leveraged finance investors face a tough task when analysing modern covenant packages, and nothing illustrates this better than the disappearance of just two words from the Restricted Payments covenant.
I still remember my first assignment as a young corporate associate. Take this giant stack of documents, circle the numbers and put them in a table. My very first comp table. This would be used to draft the first set of covenants
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