Been practicing LBO models for PE Interviews and received a prompt where it asks me to do a debt recap of a business in year 3 to refinance at a better rate and use remainder as a dividend payout to shareholders. In terms of repayment on existing debt, should I also be repaying the remaining deferred financing fees / issuance costs since the existing debt would no longer be on the books?
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Ah the classic div recap. If you are truly in IB and don’t know then that might be an issue.
Think about it conceptually - what exactly are these deferred financing fees / issuance costs referring to?
In this case, these fees were incurred as part of the transaction process for the existing debt, which were paid upfront to the arrangers - it's only from an accounting POV that you are amortizing these costs over the debt period. Thus, just because you have refinanced the debt doesn't mean that these fees have disappeared, as you have already paid them, but have just not reflected them from an accounting perspective.
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