hard · Corporate Credit Analysis
In a Chapter 11 cramdown, a secured lender with a $500m claim is being paid via a replacement note: $500m principal, 6-year term, at a 7% rate the debtor argues satisfies the 'fair and equitable' present-value standard. The lender objects, arguing the proper rate is 11% (a market rate for comparable exit financing).
Under the prevailing formula approach for valuing deferred cash payments to a secured creditor, which factor would a court LEAST appropriately use to build up from the risk-free base, and why?
- The reorganized debtor's projected probability of plan default, because higher feasibility risk should raise the discount rate to preserve the present value of the secured claim
- The quality of the collateral securing the replacement note, because weaker collateral coverage warrants a larger risk premium
- The duration of the plan's repayment period, because a longer deferral increases exposure to the debtor's credit deterioration
- The lender's own cost of obtaining replacement exit financing in the open market, because a competitive market rate including lender profit and transaction costs is the correct benchmark for the cramdown rate
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