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M&A Blog #08 – debt (Part III – lender’s view, debt rating, liquidity, and distressed company)

Francine Way

We have spent the last few posts looking at debt and it can be useful to a corporate borrower; as well as negative impacts debt can pose to the capital structure. There are many different kinds of debt providers: banks, bondholders, hedge funds, etc. Low debt level implies high WACC. High debt level implies lower WACC.

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M&A Blog #06 – debt (Part I – role and trade-offs, categories and key characteristics)

Francine Way

To be explicitly clear, I am recommending the use of the following ranked capital sources when paying for an acquisition: cash (from the balance sheet), debt (at a reasonable level), and equity. Similarly, not all corporate debt instruments are created equal and each comes with pros and cons.

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8 We Learned About Saving Businesses from Distress by interviewing Labruta Capital who Has a Unique Way To Avoid Bankruptcy

How2Exit

Ali Taraftar left Canada in 2007 to go to the United States and met a couple of investment bankers who put together a firm to do debt restructuring and mortgage modifications. Through this connection, he came across private families that were investing large amounts of money into the markets.

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Exit Planning Through an Investment Banker’s Lens

Focus Investment Banking

Optimize Working Capital (One Year Ahead) What It Is: Net Working Capital (NWC) is Current assets minus current liabilities (A/R + Inventory A/P + Accrued Expenses), excluding cash, which you keep (in a typical cash-free, debt-free transaction). To me, thats an extraordinary return on a modest investment of time.

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Private Equity Fundamentals: A Comprehensive Course for Beginners

OfficeHours

Private equity is an investment asset class that has gained significant prominence and popularity in recent decades. It has become a preferred choice for investors seeking attractive returns and diversification from traditional investment options such as stocks and bonds.

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How the Growth of Private Credit is Impacting Private Equity

OfficeHours

In particular, new guidelines from the FDIC and Federal Reserve (among other governmental agencies) made it more difficult for banks to underwrite financings that resulted in debt-to-EBITDA ratios in excess of 6.0x. This capital is released once investors buy the debt off the banks’ balance sheets. This has a number of implications.

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How Private Equity uses ‘Roll-up’ Strategies to Drive Investment Returns

OfficeHours

If the larger roll-up acquirer has the ability to finance these acquisitions with incremental debt capacity, the equity value uplift may be even greater (although the reasons for this are beyond the scope of this article). investment banking, private equity , VC, etc.) and how our process works.