Differences between senior and subordinate debt

Hi,

Could anyone please explain the difference between the senior and subordinate debt?

I have Debt Capital Markets (DCM) interview tomorrow so I would appreciate if you can tell me any other interview questions and answers that I should be prepared for.

Thank you!

 

oh boy you've got some studying to do. I've never worked in DCM before, but some debt related questions:

  1. who gets paid first in a liquidation? eq, preffs, secured, etc.?
  2. why would someone issue debt over equity?
  3. what is a covenant? what is an example of a covenant?
  4. where are interest rates today? what's the Fed been up to these days?
  5. what are some debt leverage ratios?
 

I'm not the biggest expert but due to some clauses in debt, I cannot see it possible to have senior unsecured and then a subordinate secured. I know there are clauses that specially say even when its unsecured that if another security is made secured and this security must be secured as well.

Pari Passu Describing securities or debts with equal claim on some right. A new issue of a security may be issued pari passu, which indicates that it carries the same rights as shares

 

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