Modeling question: revolver cap
Quick question for modeling pros: what happens when FCF remains negative, we keep drawing on the revolver and it reaches a revolver commitment cap? For the sake of the model, do we keep drawing on the revolver but highlight that availability has reached 0? My hunch is that if you cap the amount drawn then model won't balance any longer...
Think it depends what kind of deal it is...
If you’re building a prospective LBO, probably makes sense to have it flag as an error that needs to be addressed (ie upsize the revolver)
If you’re looking at an existing situation from an investor standpoint, that’s an “event” where there will be a liquidity shortfall and a straight forward vanilla upsizing may not be an option
If you’re the company side advisor / management, also need to negotiate for an upsized revolver or see if liquidity saving measures can be implemented to avoid triggering the covenant of minimum liquidity / actually running out of money
If you’re a restructuring advisor you start calling yourself “liability management” and ping management to help or call up opportunistic creditors to put together some other kind of play
Bottom line IMO is don’t model for an event that cannot happen under existing debt docs unless you specifically intend to evaluate “alternatives”
Two things:
Realistically you'd need to raise equity (assuming you can't up-size the revolver) but as others said, it depends on the specifics of the excercise.
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