DIP Financing and Covenants

Let's say a company enters Chapter 11 protection because recent financial missteps have made it impossible for them to meet their debt/interest obligations. The company is still in compliance with its covenants preventing the company from raising more debt senior to its current most senior debt and any ratio covenants as well. Is the company then able to take on DIP financing even though it may then cause the company to violate some of those covenants? I guess at that point they are already in the bankruptcy process, but is this allowed/does this happen?

Thank you!

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I think Im saying the same thing as comradegekko just don’t know exact code provision - code allows for DIP only if prepetition creditors are “adequately protected”, as in their claim, which will in vast majority of cases be secured, is overcollateralized by at least the value of the DIP (vast majority of DIP lenders are prepetition creditors anyway since they can often rollup their prepetition claim into the DIP). 

 

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