Clarity on Refinancing process

Hi everyone,

I am not so familiar with the refinancing process and for the experts around here, I was wondering if you could help me answer these few questions:

  • Can the paydown of existing debt and new refinancing be of different amount?

  • How is the refinancing amount usually determined?

  • In the case of a recent M&A addon, can the refinancing be made on the overall business EBiTDA (organic + M&A)?

  • on the interest rate, how would you look at modelling the change of interest rate in the debt interest expense calculations?

  • would you have examples of refinancing models you could share?

I would really appreciate to get your views on these points.

Thank you!

 
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Paydown of existing debt and new refi amounts can be different if the company wants to issue more debt (assuming its a Term loan or similar). The amount is determined by the company and its needs. Ex: I work with companies in the consumer space, so there were a ton of refis in 2021 to help with working capital as inventory grew. 

For an M&A add on, it depends on the structure (target could remain as a restricted sub), but generally speaking the refi can be reflective of the newly combined entity.

Generally, each term loan, revolver, etc. has a pricing grid with a floating rate + a fixed rate based on leverage. So, it might be SOFR + 150bps if leverage is 2x-3x and SOFR + 250 bps if leverage is >3x. When modeling, we input this pricing grid and use the forward SOFR curve for the projection period 

 

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