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Rising purchase price multiples and ROE concerns drove acquirers
to seek ways to expand their debt capacity. Some of the most
common techniques are:
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Adjusted (Increased) EBITDA
- Operating improvements
- Normalization
Asset Sales
- Bridges to asset sales
- Liquidity is key in case bridge cannot be taken out
Innovative Securities
- Defer interest
- Push out amortization
- Increase flexibility
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Term
Amortization
Covenant
Call
Seniority
Secured
Revolver
5–7
Bullet
FULL
YES
YES
YES
Term Loan A
5–7
40% in first 5 years
FULL
YES
YES
YES
Institutional Term
Loans
7-8
1% per annum / bullet
FULL
YES
YES
YES
Covenant Lite
8 - 10
1% per annum / Bullet
LIGHT
PREMIUM
YES
YES
Mezzanine
10 +
Bullet
LIGHT
PREMIUM
NO
Depends
High Yield
10 +
Bullet
LIGHT
PREMIUM
NO
NO
Holding Company
PIK
10 +
Bullet
LIGHT
PREMIUM
NO
NO
Bridge Term Loans
1-3
Bullet
FULL
YES
YES
YES
Securitization
1-5
Revolver with
Borrowing Base
FULL
YES
YES
YES
Second Lien
8-9
Bullet
FULL
YES
YES
YES
Bifurcated Lien
(cross lien)
8-10
1% P.A./Bullet
Yes
Yes
Yes
Partial
Unsecured
1-10
1% P.A./Bullet
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
OPCO/PROPCO
10+
Bullet
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
The above table shows the features of different debt options available to issuers
The availability of the different options is subject to market conditions
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Innovative securities allow for the expansion of debt capacity by one or more of the
following mechanisms:
Reduce Annual Debt Service
- Reducing cash interest expense
- Lengthen duration (Reduce/Delay amortization)
Increasing Flexibility
- Covenants
- Cash flow control
- Bridging
- Public Disclosure
- Call Premium
- Partial/fully Unsecured
Tranching (sequential ordering of payment or priorities)
- Holding Company instruments
- Restricted Subsidiaries
- Second lien/bifurcated collateral-crossing liens
- Senior/Subordinated
Cost – Second Lien vs Mez
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Senior Secured, but with Junior or Second Lien
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◦ Higher default
◦ Lower recovery
Originally developed as Rescue Finance
Competing with EURO Mezzanine
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Investors – hedge funds and CLO
Formerly Attractive Pricing: Spread differential between
Second Lien and First Lien 350 BP.
Issues:
- Inter-creditor
- Standstill Agreement
- Obligations
- New Investors Behavior in a Workout
- CLO Rating Impact
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Covenant Issues
◦ Creditor – preserve deal; recovery value
◦ Debtor - flexibility
Covenant Lite – liquidity vs. structure
◦ Similar to Investment Grade
◦ One or No Financial Covenants
Rating Agency impact on CLO
Volume
◦ US
 1H07 – 104B (35% of loans)
 3H07 – Virtually 0
◦ Europe – Shut down 1Q08
 difficult
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By structuring the financing of a pool of assets with a credit quality stronger than the
corporate credit as a whole, ‘OpCo’ \ ‘PropCo’ financing can provide a cost effective source of
(acquisition) financing.
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Example:◦ Target company de-merged into ‘PropCo’, which owns the real estate
assets, and ‘OpCo’, the operating company.
◦ Banks finance ‘PropCo’ acquisition of properties at agreed Loan to
Value ratio.
◦ ‘PropCo’ leases the real estate assets to ‘OpCo’.
◦ ‘PropCo’ debt refinanced by traditional Property Lenders or via
Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities (CMBS) market.
◦ ‘OpCo’ required to service the acquisition debt not assumed by
‘PropCo’.
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‘OpCo \ PropCo’ Financing (2)
BidCo
Financing
Approx.
100%
Notes
Approx.
100%
OpCo
PropCo
Rental Payments
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Requirements:
◦ Stable and resilient cash flows from business
◦ Control over cash flows through sale of assets or
adequate legal structure
◦ Target investment grade rating to maximize access
to investors and lower cost of capital
Different leverage measurements
Issues
◦ Favorable bankruptcy laws
◦ Inter-creditor issues
◦ Flexibility
Closed: 2H07 to present
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• Longer Term Bonds
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7-10 years and longer
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4/5 NC
• Public or Private
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Usually issued in private form with exchange rights
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Pricing would step up if bonds not public within short period (say 180
days of close)
• Usually issued as subordinated debt but can also be senior
unsecured
• Markets
 US - $871B size
 Euro - €65B size
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• Registration Rights
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Key High Yield Terms
• Registration Rights
• Issuer
• Status
• Degree of Subordination
• Limitations on liens
• Limitations on indebtedness
• Restricted payments
• Asset sales
• Change in control
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Covenants
*
*
Extensive (bank type)
Maintenance basis (tested quarterly)
Security
*
Second secured
Call Provisions
*
Generally callable immediately (103,102,101)
Maturity
*
Ten year
Pricing
*
*
LIBOR + 800 bps (400 cash, 400 PIK)
Warrants for total return (15-17%)
Liquidity
*
Low
Disclosure:
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Limited
Marketing
*
No research coverage, no roadshow
Rating Requirements
*
None
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Trend: Increasing segmentation of loans with reduced covenant or collateral
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Percentage of institutional loans with impaired covenants or collateral

1H07
47%, 2H07-Nil

2006
24%
Breakdown 2007 1H07 47%
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11%
Second Lien
6.4% Bifurcated

23%

7%
Covenant Lite
Unsecured
Bifurcated/Crossing Liens – See HCA for an example
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◦
◦
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Asset backed revolving credit backed by first lien or receivables and inventory
Term loans back by lien on other non-current assets

Property, plant and equipment

Stock pledge
Pricing premium – 100 bps compared to revolver
Inter-creditor complications
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PIK
•Pay if you can toggle
•Eats up equity
•Characteristics
PIK
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Spread
825/900
500
Toggle
900-1000
Term
7.5-10
9.5
Call
5xNC
n/a
Leverage
6.5x+
6x+
n/a
(Source: LCD)
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Stapled Financing
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Staple financing term sheet to deal book
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Be prepared to fund
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Establishes ceiling
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Conflicts of interest
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Bridge Loans
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Equity
◦ Bank provides equity
 Find other equity investors later or keep
 Reduce PE equity
 Lowers need for club or larger deals
◦ Rationale – pay to play
◦ Bonds
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Increasing layers of debt
Directed at different investors
Intercreditors conflicts
2006 – 1H07
• Common equity
• Hybrid preferred (0.5x)
2004 + 2H07 - Present
• Common equity
• Unsecured/mezzanine (1x)
• Senior secured bank loan (4x)
- Amortizing T/LA – 40%
- B/C tranches – 60%
FDX – 5x +
PPX – 7.5 +
• PIK notes (0.5x)
• Unsecured/mezzanine (1x)
• Carve-out collateral (1x)
- securitization
- OPCO/PROPCO
• Second lien loans (1x)
• Senior secured bank loan (4x)
- Amortizing T/LA – 20%
- B/C tranches – 80%
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FDX – 6x +
PPX – 8.5 +
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HCA
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◦
◦
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– 33 bln USD (corp rating B2/B+)
FDX – 6.53x (LTM)
PPX – 7.7x
Club – Bain, KKR, ML (5 bln)
W/W – BofA, JPMC, Citi, ML
Debt Package
1st Lien
Term
- R/C
2.000 bln
6
250
0
- ABL
2.000 bln
6
175
0
- T/LA
2.250 bln
6
250
50%
- T/LB
9.300 bln
7
250
7%
- EUR T/L 1.250 bln
7
250
7%
2nd Lien
Spread
Amortization
(3.46x)
(cum. At maturity)
(1.33x)
- Cash
4.200 bln
8
9.75%
8%
- PIK/T
1.500 bln
8
10.0 %
8%
Existing unsecured
Equity
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◦
7.470 bln
2009
4.965 bln
--
7.5 %
--
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EBITDA/I – 1.9x (2007E)
EBITDA – CAPEX/I – 1.1x (2007E)
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HCA
Legal Structure
Sponsors
Management
Healthtrust Holdings
Equity
Merge
Acquisition Corp
HCA, Inc
Bank Loans
Existing Notes
Euro T/L
European
subs
Sub A
Unrestricted subs
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Sub C
Sub D
Sub E
Restricted subs
(gurantors)
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