10/20/17 Recap: Canadian-based pharmaceutical company filed for a stay under the Canada Business Corporations Act (CBCA) to effectuate a plan to de-lever its balance sheet. The company has a portfolio of 200+ "off-patient" skus with sales all across the world. The company blamed the need for the filing on (i) the proliferation of competitive generic products, (ii) the introduction of new products that treat the same ailments Concordia addresses, (iii) drug pricing pressures (including regulatory pressures in the UK), and its highly-levered balance sheet. The company intends to deploy its "DELIVER" strategy - not to be confused with what should be an obvious DELEVER strategy, but we digress. This acronym stands for a bunch of trite stuff like "Drive growth, "Expand," "Level-set the U.S. Business," "Increase the Product Pipeline," blah blah boring blah blah. In other words, effectively operate a pharma business - the EOPB strategy. Fine, not quite the same ring to it.
Jurisdiction: Superior Court of Ontario
Capital Structure: $1.068b secured term loan, £485.63mm secured term loan. $350mm 9% '22 senior secured first lien notes, $135mm 9.5% '22 extended unsecured bridge loan ($100.83 funded ex-interest), $45mm 9.5% '17 equity unsecured bridge loan ($33.61mm ex-interest), $735mm 7% '23 unsecured notes (ex-interest), and $790mm 9.5% '22 unsecured notes (ex-interest)(US Bank NA). Public equity ($CXR).
5/22/17 Recap: Publicly-traded (on the Canadian exchange) provider of sound, sight, and scent solutions for retail, restaurant and hospitality companies has filed for CBCA and Chapter 15 to effectuate a deleveraging transaction. The transaction in brief: noteholders are swapping their 9.25% notes for $500mm new second lien notes and common stock in the reorganized company (subject to upsize via rights offering participation). Equity will get 17 cents on the dollar. The company will also install a $315mm first lien facility. So, it sounds like the company will still have a f*ck-ton of debt on it. But we're just thankful that the company that brags that "We Put People in the Mood to Buy" will still be providing customers of Qdoba, McDonald's & Ikea, to name a few, with the full sensory experience that inspires needless consumerism of unhealthy and/or bad quality food and wares. Those annoying text message offers you might randomly get? Yeah, it's possible that's from Mood Media. Remember muzak? Yeah, that's also Mood Media. Muzak filed for bankruptcy back in February '09 (with Kirkland & Ellis as counsel then too) and emerged a year later with Silver Point Capital Management as the majority owner. Mood Media then bought Muzak for $345mm in March 2011. Pursuant to this transaction, Apollo Global Management LP and GSO Capital Partners will own this sucker.
Jurisdiction: S.D. of New York
Capital Structure: $250mm first lien term loan (Credit Suisse AG), $350mm '20 9.25% senior unsecured notes (Bank of New York Mellon), $50mm '23 10% senior unsecured MMGSA notes (Computershare Trust Company NA)(subsidiary level)
11/1/16 Recap: British Columbia-based paper manufacturer files Chapter 15 in support of a CBCA proceeding a mere four years after a previous CBCA/Chapter 15 restructuring to pursue a sale transaction with Kejriwal Group, an Indian paper manufacturer, and/or delever its balance sheet.
