What happens when a company breaches a debt covenant?

When a company breaches a debt covenant, is it most common for the lender to relax the covenants to allow the company to keep operating if there is a clear path for the lender to be paid? Or will lenders force the company into filing for bankruptcy and sell assets / entire company to pay the entire loan back? Primarily asking this question because I'm trying to understand what all the ways a company could go bankrupt are, and I'm not sure if breaching covenants counts as one, so any insight would be awesome.

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if you breach a covenant, the company has defaulted on its obligations and therefore is subject to being forced into a bankruptcy by the lenders. However, in most instances the lender will attempt to reach a solution which includes the Company making many concessions to please lenders. Most of the time lenders know far in advance when a breach is on the horizon and they will reach out and come to a solution before any of this becomes a real problem.

 

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