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Michael Schneidereit

Michael Schneidereit is a partner in the New York office of Jones Day and a member of the firm’s Business Restructuring and Reorganization Group. Email: mschneidereit@jonesday.com


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Jumping the line: priming restructuring transactions during the COVID-19 crisis

Over the past year, the COVID-19 crisis has caused liquidity issues for many US businesses, which has forced some borrowers to resort to increasingly creative restructuring options. These have generally fallen within two categories – “dropdown” transactions and “uptiering” exchange transactions, both of which have seen borrowers take steps under their credit agreements to prioritise one set of lenders over another. This article tracks the key cases in the US market and offers a flavour of what may be arriving soon on European shores.

1 FEB 2021