Sizing Up Corporate Restructuring in the COVID Crisis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sizing Up Corporate Restructuring in the COVID Crisis write by Robin Greenwood. This book was released on 2020. Sizing Up Corporate Restructuring in the COVID Crisis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the financial and legal system will need to deal with a surge of financial distress in the business sector. Some firms will be able to survive, while others will face bankruptcy and thus need to be liquidated or reorganized. Many surviving firms will need to be downsized or acquired. In normal times, this triage is supported by the court system, banks, and financial markets. The goal of this paper is to size up the coming surge of financial distress, list the challenges it presents in the current environment, and analyze potential policy solutions. Overall, our analysis suggests that the two key issues will be court congestion and excess liquidation and failure of small firms.
Policy Options for Supporting and Restructuring Firms Hit by the COVID-19 Crisis
Policy Options for Supporting and Restructuring Firms Hit by the COVID-19 Crisis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Policy Options for Supporting and Restructuring Firms Hit by the COVID-19 Crisis write by Ms. Juliana Dutra Araujo. This book was released on 2022-02-23. Policy Options for Supporting and Restructuring Firms Hit by the COVID-19 Crisis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This paper presents principles that could guide the design of more targeted policy support and facilitate the restructuring of firms adversely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. To this end, the paper takes stock of vulnerabilities and risks in the enterprise sector and assesses countries’ preparedness to handle a large-scale restructuring of businesses. Crisis preparedness of insolvency systems is measured according to a newly designed indicator that includes five dimensions of the insolvency and restructuring regime (out-of-court restructuring, hybrid restructuring, reorganization, liquidation, and the institutional framework). Vulnerabilities tend to be more pronounced in jurisdictions with shortcomings in crisis preparedness, and those countries need to step up efforts to improve their insolvency systems.
Corporate Debt Restructuring in Emerging Markets
Corporate Debt Restructuring in Emerging Markets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Corporate Debt Restructuring in Emerging Markets write by Richard Marney. This book was released on 2021-09-02. Corporate Debt Restructuring in Emerging Markets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Corporate debt restructurings in the emerging markets have always presented special challenges. Today, as the global economy emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic and businesses look to pick up the pieces, this is even more true. For many, the financial hangover of the lockdowns and market disruptions linger and threaten their independence, even their survival. This peril is more acute in the emerging and frontier markets. Weaker economic fundamentals and institutional resiliency often intensify the challenge to return to pre-COVID-19 operating levels and financial sustainability. In this context, borrowers invariably must address the imbalance of substantial existing debt with the “new reality” of their business operations and revenues. This book, using case studies, presents a full, detailed narrative of a fictitious troubled bank in an emerging market, with characters, dialogues, and negotiations. It also includes a series of discussion questions with suggested answers, to draw out key issues from the case. In doing so, this initial narrative offers a substantive analysis of the five main phases and principles of a restructuring: (1) pre-restructuring, (2) the decision to restructure, (3) the case set-up, (4) structuring and negotiation, and lastly (5) implementation. In each chapter, the book outlines the main elements of the phases and shows how the elements are applied in practice. The book also presents separate chapters on exogenous shocks (with a focus on the COVID-19 pandemic as an example of such shocks), macroeconomics, and legal issues present in cross-border restructurings. It will be of interest to the international professional financial and legal community, primarily junior-to mid-level financiers, business people, and lawyers.
The COVID-19 Impact on Corporate Leverage and Financial Fragility
The COVID-19 Impact on Corporate Leverage and Financial Fragility - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The COVID-19 Impact on Corporate Leverage and Financial Fragility write by Sharjil M. Haque. This book was released on 2021-11-05. The COVID-19 Impact on Corporate Leverage and Financial Fragility available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We study the impact of the COVID-19 recession on capital structure of publicly listed U.S. firms. Our estimates suggest leverage (Net Debt/Asset) decreased by 5.3 percentage points from the pre-shock mean of 19.6 percent, while debt maturity increased moderately. This de-leveraging effect is stronger for firms exposed to significant rollover risk, while firms whose businesses were most vulnerable to social distancing did not reduce leverage. We rationalize our evidence through a structural model of firm value that shows lower expected growth rate and higher volatility of cash flows following COVID-19 reduced optimal levels of corporate leverage. Model-implied optimal leverage indicates firms which did not de-lever became over-leveraged. We find default probability deteriorates most in large, over-leveraged firms and those that were stressed pre-COVID. Additional stress tests predict value of these firms will be less than one standard deviation away from default if cash flows decline by 20 percent.
Global Corporate Stress Tests—Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Policy Responses
Global Corporate Stress Tests—Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Policy Responses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Global Corporate Stress Tests—Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Policy Responses write by Mr. Thierry Tressel. This book was released on 2021-08-06. Global Corporate Stress Tests—Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Policy Responses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Corporate sector vulnerabilities have been a central policy topic since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we analyze some 17,000 publicly listed firms in a sample of 24 countries, and assess their ability to withstand shocks induced by the pandemic to their liquidity, viability and solvency. For this purpose, we develop novel multi-factor sensitivity analysis and dynamic scenario-based stress test techniques to assess the impact of shocks on firm’s ability to service their debt, and on their liquidity and solvency positions. Applying the October 2020 WEO baseline and adverse scenarios, we find that a large share of publicly-listed firms become vulnerable as a result of the pandemic shock and additional borrowing needs to overcome cash shortfalls are large, while firm behavioral responses and policies substantially help overcome the impact of the shock in the near term. Looking forward, while interest coverage ratios tend to improve over time after the initial shock as earnings recover in line with projected macroeconomic conditions, liquidity needs remain substantial in many firms across countries and across industries, while insolvencies rise over time in specific industries. To inform policy debates, we offer an approach to a triage between viable and unviable firms, and find that the needs for liquidity support of viable firms remain important beyond 2020, and that medium-term debt restructuring needs and liquidations of firms may be substantial in the medium-term.
