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Class 14Bankruptcy, Spring, 2009

DIP FinancingRandal C. PickerLeffmann Professor of Commercial Law

The Law School

The University of Chicago

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363(a): Cash Collateral

(a) In this section, ‘‘cash collateral’’ means cash, negotiable

instruments, documents of title, securities, deposit accounts, or other cash equivalents whenever acquired in which the estate and an entity other than the estate have an interest and includes the proceeds, products, offspring, rents, or profits of property and the fees, charges, accounts or other payments for the use or occupancy of rooms and other public facilities in hotels, motels, or other lodging properties subject to a security interest as provided in section 552(b) of this title, whether existing before or after the commencement of a case under this title.

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363(c)(2): Restrictions on Use of Cash Collateral

(2) The trustee may not use, sell, or lease cash

collateral under paragraph (1) of this subsection unless—

(A) each entity that has an interest in such cash collateral consents; or

(B) the court, after notice and a hearing, authorizes such use, sale, or lease in accordance with the provisions of this section.


363(e)

(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this

section, at any time, on request of an entity that has an interest in property used, sold, or leased, or proposed to be used, sold, or leased, by the trustee, the court, with or without a hearing, shall prohibit or condition such use, sale, or lease as is necessary to provide adequate protection of such interest. …



364 Obtaining Credit: Unsecured Debt

(a) If the trustee is authorized to operate the business of the debtor under section 721, 1108, 1203, 1204, or 1304 of this title, unless the court orders otherwise, the trustee may obtain unsecured credit and incur unsecured debt in the ordinary course of business allowable under section 503(b)(1) of this title as an administrative expense.


364 (Cont.)

Obtaining Credit (b) The court, after notice and a hearing,

may authorize the trustee to obtain unsecured credit or to incur unsecured debt other than under subsection (a) of this section, allowable under section 503(b)(1) of this title as an administrative expense.


364 (Cont.)

Obtaining credit (cont.) (c) If the trustee is unable to obtain

unsecured credit allowable under section 503(b)(1) of this title as an administrative expense, the court, after notice and a hearing, may authorize the obtaining of credit or the incurring of debt –


364 (Cont.)

(1) with priority over any or all administrative expenses of the kind specified in section 503(b) or 507(b) of this title;

(2) secured by a lien on property of the estate that is not otherwise subject to a lien; or

(3) secured by a junior lien on property of the estate that is subject to a lien.


364 (Cont.)

Obtaining Credit: Senior Secured (d)(1) The court, after notice and a hearing, may

authorize the obtaining of credit or the incurring of debt secured by a senior or equal lien on property of the estate that is subject to a lien only if -

• (A) the trustee is unable to obtain such credit otherwise; and

• (B) there is adequate protection of the interest of the holder of the lien on the property of the estate on which such senior or equal lien is proposed to be granted.


364 (Cont.)

(2) In any hearing under this subsection, the trustee has the burden of proof on the issue of adequate protection.


364 (Cont.) Obtaining Credit (Cont.)

(e) The reversal or modification on appeal of an authorization under this section to obtain credit or incur debt, or of a grant under this section of a priority or a lien, does not affect the validity of any debt so incurred, or any priority or lien so granted, to an entity that extended such credit in good faith, whether or not such entity knew of the pendency of the appeal, unless such authorization and the incurring of such debt, or the granting of such priority or lien, were stayed pending appeal.


Saybrook

Core Facts Bank owed $34 million; $10 million in

collateral Bank lends additional $3mm postpetition Bank gets security interest in all property,

both for $3mm postpetition loan and for $34 million prepetition loan


Saybrook

Key Questions Does the Code authorize cross-

collateralization? Does 364(e) protect the particular liens

granted in this case?


Cross Collateralization: Step 1

“Debtor hereby grants a security interest in all assets to secure all debts, now owed or to be owed, of Debtor to Bank.”

PreP DebtPreP AssetStd SI Status



PostP Asset

“Debtor hereby grants a security interest in postpetition assets to secure all postpetition debts, now owed or to be owed, of Debtor to Bank.”

PostP DebtStd SI Status?




PostP Asset

“Debtor hereby grants a security interest in pre- and postpetition assets to secure all postpetition debts, now owed or to be owed, of Debtor to Bank.”

PostP DebtStd SI Status




PostP Asset

“Debtor hereby grants a security interest in pre- and postpetition assets to secure all pre- and postpetition debts, now owed or to be owed, of Debtor to Bank.”

PostP DebtStd SI Status


Ordinary SI Status?


General Order M-274

Extraordinary Provisions Cross-Collateralization Roll Ups

Application of postpetition assets to pay prepetition debt

Waiver and concesssions regarding prepetition debt


General Order M-274

Provisions that interfere with exercise of fiduciary duties

Section 506(c) Waivers Liens on Avoidance Actions Carve Outs

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Screen Capture Slide1. Start fast, then take your time: Lyondell told its banks in mid-December it could be facing a liquidity problem, even before it defaulted on any covenants. The announcement sent groups of advisers to cluster in the offices of Lyondell's lawyers at Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft. In mid-December the negotiations for a DIP loan started and, by Jan. 7, there was a 35-page term sheet the court approved. On Jan. 9 a group of banks had agreed to provide $2 billion. They gave the money to Lyondell that night.


Screen Capture Slide2. Get the lenders on your side: Lyondell had a lot of negotiating power even though it was bankrupt, noted Simpson Thacher & Bartlett partner William Sheehan, who advised UBS. Lyondell's 14 lenders, including lead agent UBS, could face a massive hit because they all had $20 billion in credit extended to Lyondell. To get them on board, Lyondell offered a “roll-up,” by which preferred lenders could sign up to give the company new money through the DIP loan. The company could get more funding, and the lenders would benefit by moving up in the queue to get their money back, because DIP loans have to be paid back before other loans.


Screen Capture Slide3. Remind people they are all in this together: At one point in a conference call of the lenders, one of the participants asked the operator how many people were on the line. The reply: “550.” To help with the documentation, the Loan Syndication and Trading Association made an unprecedented intervention to make sure that the lenders all understood the protocol for getting their money. Every lender submitted their paperwork on time.


Screen Capture Slide4. Plan ahead for refinancing risk: Usually, DIP loans are paid off in full, in cash. But the Lyondell advisers arranged to pay back its previous lenders with a debt security that would be paid off no more than five years after the official date of the reorganization. Lyondell also arranged a very generous “yank a bank” provision that would allow it to replace all the lenders if they declined to extend the maturity.

Lyondell Docs

Lyondell Docket http://chapter11.epiqsystems.com/


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