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Creative uses of collateral: opportunities for leveraged companies

13 June 2024 / Author(s): Francesco Lione
Issue: July-August 2021 / Categories: Feature

Credit to leveraged companies normally ties to the cash flow of the borrower’s business. But the coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on the financial standing of many borrowers, upending their ability to predict cash flows and prompting them to raise capital against hard assets’ liquidation value. In the process, new transaction structures have emerged that use collateral more creatively to maximise borrowing capacity.

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