Distressed Debt Investing
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Short course
In London and New York (USA)
Learn to understand financial statements!
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2 Days
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This course covers distressed debt analysis and investing, focusing primarily on corporates but also including financial institutions and sovereign debt as special topics.
The programme begins with the foundations of the distressed debt market, causes of and early warning signals, possible outcomes and how to evaluate the probability of outcomes in different scenarios.
Restructuring is reviewed in detail, as well as estimation of sustainable debt levels, business valuation and the importance of capital and group structure. Differences between active control and passive non control investments are highlighted, including stakeholder tactics and due diligence.
Case studies cover a variety of companies across sectors and geographies, challenging delegates to make investment decisions on real distressed debt situations.
This course is also available remotely via LFS Live.
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About this course
Distressed debt investors, Loan portfolio managers and Private equity investors
Hedge fund managers
High yield credit analysts and Equity analysts
High yield asset managers and Mergers and acquisitions bankers
Debt capital markets/leveraged finance bankers
Business turnaround/restructuring accountants/corporate finance professionals
Lawyers
Strategy consultants
Basic understanding of financial statements
Basic familiarity with Excel
Familiarity with high yield debt useful but not essential
Reviews
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I think this is possibly the best external training course I have taken. The teacher was full of experience and the study materials were useful too.
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This is so far, the best external training I have ever attended. Great tutor and the materials were well organized.
← | →
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Conceivably the best outer instructional class I have done. Coach was proficient and the materials nicely arranged.
← | →
Course rating
Recommended
Centre rating
Andrew Stalker
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This centre's achievements
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The average rating is higher than 3.7
More than 50 reviews in the last 12 months
This centre has featured on Emagister for 16 years
Subjects
- Financial Training
- Investment
- Stakeholder
- Market
- Debt Investing
- Debt market
- Strategic flexibility
- Business
- Financial
- EBITDA
- DCF
- Liquidity analysis
- Probabilistic investment
- Equity analysts
Teachers and trainers (1)
Rupesh Tailor
Teacher
Rupesh Tailor is a banking sector specialist with over thirteen years’ experience, working for sell-side and buy-side financial institutions including Goldman Sachs, Barclays Capital, Merrill Lynch, Auriga Investors and Morgan Stanley. He specialized in the European bank sector as well as the analysis of high yield and leveraged finance investments. His responsibilities included analysis, trading and portfolio management of credit and equity products. Rupesh developed a proprietary method for predicting bank failure, which has been used to accurately predict banking stress.
Course programme
Introduction and course outline
Foundations
- What is Distressed Debt?
- Distressed Debt market background – size, participants, historic returns, composition (corporate, financial institution, sovereign)
- Causes of and early warning signals for corporate financial distress and implications for resolution
- Outcomes for Distressed Debt – remain performing, liquidation or restructuring
- How to evaluated whether Distressed Debt will remain performing or whether impairment will occur:
- Business assessment products, competition, customers, company
- Financial assessment – financial statement analysis, forward looking financial modelling, key credit metrics, covenant compliance testing, liquidity analysis and debt service capacity
- Instrument assessment – covenant, seniority, security and guarantor protection
- Strategic flexibility – scope for asset sales, secured financing, sale and leaseback transactions and equity raising
Workshop: Evaluating whether Norske Skogindustrier ASA’s (Norwegian newsprint and magazine paper producer) senior unsecured bonds will remain performing
Distressed Debt Restructuring
- Approaches
- Out of court restructurings voluntary and coercive exchanges, holdout problems
- In court restructurings – pre packaged or pre negotiated vs post petition, process
- Key elements of bankruptcy law – UK, Europe, US
- How to estimate the sustainable level of debt for the business around which the restructuring will be designed
- Business valuation – EBITDA multiple and DCF approaches
- The importance of capital structure, group structure and intercreditor agreements in estimating recovery value
- Complexities arising in group structures spanning several legal jurisdictions
Workshop: How is Codere SA (international gaming company) likely to be restructured and are its senior unsecured bonds a good investment opportunity?
Day Two
Distressed Debt Investing
- Distressed Debt Investing as scenario probabilistic investment
- Sought after characteristics in a distressed debt investment
- Active control vs. passive non control investors
- The interplay of different stakeholder objectives and conflicts – identifying the fulcrum capital and stakeholder tactics
- Due diligence – business, financial, instrument, legal
Example: Truvo (European directories business)
Workshop: Are SolarWorld AG (solar power products company) bonds an attractive investment?
Special Topics in Distressed Debt Investing
- Financial Institutions Distressed Debt Investing – how are failed banks and insurance companies restructured and resolved? How will their restructuring and resolution change going forward in a new environment of special resolution regimes, bail in and contingent convertibles?
Example: Groupama SA (French insurance company)
- Sovereign Distressed Debt Investing – dealing with sovereign liquidity and solvency problems; assessing sovereign debt sustainability; the role of politics
Workshop: Is there a good investment opportunity in Banca Monte Dei Paschi di Siena Spa’s (Italian retail bank) capital structure?
Distressed Debt Investing