Distressed debt: Clever ways to do the dumbest things
Oldspeak and newspeak
“We have a large team of distressed analysts and they are all incredibly busy,” says Iain Burnett, “but not in the mainstream area of the over-stretched LBO gone wrong. Success in this market is all about the illiquid, private deal flow and we have a sales and sourcing team spending all day talking to hundreds of banks across Europe.”
Burnett, who is executive director and head distressed debt analyst at Morgan Stanley, relates a deal his firm did recently in the bank debt of Ploucquet Holdings, a 150-year-old family-owned German textile firm. It had taken on bank debt to fund a capital expenditure programme that had not performed to plan. “We got calls from a couple of bilateral lenders – this company didn’t even have syndicated loans, let alone LBO financing...
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