Al forumista speculone che mi aveva chiesto all'epoca di come andava a finire con Ono Finance, in effetti è finita come gli facevo presente (pur non avendo io dato seguito all'operazione)... Ora, mi raccomando, leggere con molta attenzione il dispaccio qui sotto, perché forse è il caso di portare le natiche da qualche altra parte..
DJ Banks Approve ONO's Refinancing Plan
13.04.10 12:20:04
Spanish telecommunications company ONO has received approval from banks for its plan to issue new debt to refinance its 3.6 billion euro loan and an injection of 200 million euro of new capital from the company's private-equity owners, sources say.
LONDON -- Spanish telecommunications company ONO has received approval from
banks for its refinancing plan, getting the 80% approval rate required from its
senior lenders to see the deal through, said people familiar with the situation
Tuesday.
Documentation is due to be signed in the next couple of weeks, one of the
people said.
Under the refinancing proposal senior lenders were asked to approve ONO's plan
to issue new debt to refinance its EUR3.6 billion loan as the firm moves to
head off liquidity and covenant issues that will arise in the second quarter.
The company said in January that the proposal also involves EUR200 million of
new capital from the company's private-equity owners, which include Providence
Equity Partners, Thomas H. Lee Partners, Quadrangle Group and GE Structured
Finance.
The new capital consists of EUR125 million of cash that will be injected into
the company immediately. The injection will be via a deeply subordinated,
payment-in-kind loan, which matures after ONO's existing bank facilities.
The remaining EUR75 million will be held in an escrow account and will be
subject to liquidity tests.
In addition, the refinancing plan involves a new forward-start loan facility
that will be used to meet the company's scheduled amortizations on its EUR1.8
billion tranche A and B debt. At least 80% of the A and B loan tranches will be
moved to the forward-start facility, the company said.
Lenders who participate in the new forward-start agreement will receive a fee
of 100 basis points and a margin uplift of 125 basis points.
The company has total outstanding debt of EUR3.99 billion, including EUR450
million of 2014 bonds.