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Bantry Bay and Elliott Advisors Establish Joint Venture Partnership
Bantry Bay Capital Limited (“Bantry Bay” or the “Company”), the specialist lender, has established a joint venture partnership with funds advised by Elliott Advisors (UK) Limited and its affiliates (together “Elliott”). Elliott Advisors (UK) Limited is an affiliate of Elliott investment Management, L.P., the global fund manager with approximately $41.8 billion in assets under management.
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Huntington Business Credit Announces $11.5 Million in Credit Facilities with Robinson Fans Holdings, Inc.
June 9, 2020Robinson Fans Holdings, Inc., located in Zelienople, Pennsylvania, is a designer and manufacturer of industrial fans and air moving equipment.
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TAB Bank Provides Consumer Lighting Products Company in Utah with an $8 Million Revolving Credit Facility
June 9, 2020TAB Bank is pleased to announce it has provided an $8 million asset-based revolving credit facility for a consumer lighting products company based in Utah. The new facility is extended through a multi-year agreement and will provide for the ongoing working capital needs for the company.
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Bright Mountain Media Completes Accretive Acquisition of CL Media Holdings d/b/a/ Wild Sky Media
June 9, 2020Wild Sky Media, an interactive media company and home to parenting and lifestyle brands CafeMom, Mom.com, LittleThings, Revelist, Babynamewizard, and MamasLatinas. The transaction was completed on a debt-free and cash-free basis, free and clear of any liens and encumbrances for a total enterprise value of $15.0 million, in addition to 2.5 million shares of common stock of Bright Mountain Media, Inc. Centre Lane funded a $15.0 million first lien senior secured term loan to Bright Mountain Media to finance the purchase price at closing.
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Macy’s, Inc. Raises Approximately $4.5 Billion in Financing
June 9, 2020Credit Suisse and JP Morgan served as joint physical book runners on the company’s senior secured notes issuance. Bank of America and Goldman Sachs served as book runners on the notes issuance. Bank of America is serving as the Administrative Agent and Lead Arranger on the company’s asset-based credit agreement.
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Rayonier Advanced Materials Announces Credit Agreement Amendment Providing Extended Financial Covenant Relief and Additional Liquidity
June 8, 2020Rayonier Advanced Materials Inc. (the “Company”) today announced that, in working with its lenders under its Senior Secured Credit Agreement, it has entered into an amendment (the “Amendment”) under which, among other changes, the lenders have agreed to relax the financial covenants through 2022. In addition, the Amendment provides additional liquidity to the Company by reducing the minimum availability the Company is required to maintain under its revolving credit facility. The Amendment added a 1 percent LIBOR floor and lenders were paid a customary fee as consideration for their consent to the Amendment.
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Serta Simmons Bedding Enters Into Agreement with Majority of Lenders on Deleveraging and Liquidity Enhancing Transaction
June 8, 2020Serta Simmons Bedding, LLC ("SSB" or the "Company"), the largest manufacturer and distributor of mattresses in North America, today entered into a transaction support agreement with a majority of its First Lien and Second Lien Term Loan Holders to recapitalize the Company. The transaction is expected to reduce net debt by approximately $400 million, and further provides for $200 million in new capital to increase its financial strength and support the acceleration of SSB's business transformation plan.
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Orion Group Holdings, Inc. Announces Additional $20 Million Revolver
June 8, 2020Orion Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ORN) (the "Company") a leading specialty construction company, today announced it has entered into an amendment to its existing credit agreement with Regions Bank and other lenders, providing for a new $20 million revolving credit facility to supplement its existing $50 million revolver. The new revolver will have a term of one year.
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Douglas Dynamics Refinances $375 Million Credit Facility
June 8, 2020Douglas Dynamics, Inc. (NYSE: PLOW), North America's premier manufacturer and upfitter of work truck attachments and equipment, today announced it has refinanced its existing senior secured credit facilities with $375 million of new credit facilities, consisting of a $275 million 6-year Senior Secured Term Loan B Facility due June 2026 and a $100 million 3-year Senior Secured ABL Revolving Credit Facility due June 2023. The proceeds from the borrowings will be used for general corporate purposes, including repaying the entirety of the company’s prior $226 million Term Loan B Facility that was scheduled to mature on December 31 2021.
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QuickFi® & Johnson Controls International Announce Customer Financing Program
June 8, 2020QuickFi® by Innovation Finance USA, LLC is pleased to provide financing services for Johnson Controls International customers. Johnson Controls is a worldwide leader in optimizing building performance to improve safety and enhance comfort. QuickFi enables business equipment purchasers to initiate and complete fixed-rate, term equipment financing transactions, which previously took days or weeks, in only three minutes.
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Federal Reserve Board Expands its Main Street Lending Program to Allow More Small and Medium-sized Businesses to be Able to Receive Support
June 8, 2020The Federal Reserve Board on Monday expanded its Main Street Lending Program to allow more small and medium-sized businesses to be able to receive support. The Board lowered the minimum loan amount, raised the maximum loan limit, adjusted the principal repayment schedule to begin after two years, and extended the term to five years, providing borrowers with greater flexibility in repaying the loans. The Board expects the Main Street program to be open for lender registration soon and to be actively buying loans shortly afterwards.
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Payroll Protection Program (PPP) Loan Update
June 8, 2020This weekend, the SBA released its latest Payroll Protection Program (PPP) loan update. Please see the attached report.
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Fed to Stay Full Throttle With Credit Support Despite Debt Rally
June 8, 2020The Federal Reserve may have stoked one of the strongest corporate debt market rallies in decades, but it’s too soon to declare an all-clear for credit with the economy facing a potentially rocky road ahead. Sure, U.S. investment-grade borrowing costs have retreated to near all-time lows, and companies have sold $1 trillion of bonds at the fastest pace on record -- evidence that merely announcing a plan to pump liquidity into corporate debt markets has helped ease strains before barely a dollar of central bank money was deployed.
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Methanex Amends $1.1B Credit Facilities, Boosts Flexibility
June 8, 2020Methanex Corporation MEOH boosted its financial flexibility by amending its $300 million committed revolving credit facility and $800-million non-revolving construction facility. Notably, the amendment is expected to offer meaningful financial covenant relief and greater timeline flexibility for completing the Geismar 3 project. The financial covenant relief will offer more flexibility in calculating minimum EBITDA to interest coverage ratio through Jun 30, 2021, and an increase of the maximum debt-to-capitalization ratio through Jun 30, 2023.
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Paul, Weiss Adds Leading Restructuring Partner
June 8, 2020Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP announced today that Andrew M. Parlen is joining the firm as a partner in the Restructuring Department, resident in the New York office. Mr. Parlen represents public and private companies, ad hoc groups of creditors and investors in a variety of distressed situations, including out-of-court restructurings, prepackaged and prearranged chapter 11 reorganizations, debtor-in-possession financings and acquisitions of distressed companies.
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Joint Statement by SBA Administrator Jovita Carranza and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin Regarding Enactment of the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act
June 8, 2020SBA Administrator Jovita Carranza and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin issued the following statement today following the enactment of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Flexibility Act: “We want to thank President Trump for his leadership and commend Leader McConnell, Leader Schumer, Speaker Pelosi, and Leader McCarthy for working on a bipartisan basis to pass this legislation for small businesses participating in the Paycheck Protection Program.
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Going-out-of-Business Sales are Underway at All Open Pier 1 Stores and Pier1.com
June 8, 2020Joint venture partners Gordon Brothers and Hilco Global announced that they have commenced “Going-Out-of-Business” sales at more than 350 open Pier 1 stores across the United States. Pier 1 announced on Friday, May 29 that it has received approval from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to begin an orderly wind-down of its retail operations as soon as reasonably possible, pending each location’s ability to reopen following mandated closures due to the impact of COVID-19. It is estimated that all remaining stores will be operating going out of business sales by mid-June, or as soon as the stores can reopen based on respective state and local guidelines.
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VEON Announces a New RUB 100 Billion Term Loan Agreement With Sberbank
June 8, 2020VEON Ltd. (NASDAQ: VEON) (Euronext Amsterdam: VEON) announced today that its subsidiary VEON Holdings B.V. has successfully entered into a new RUB 100 billion, approximately USD 1.5 billion1, bilateral term loan agreement with Sberbank. The loan will be used to refinance and extend the maturity of the existing loan between Sberbank and VEON Holdings, as well as to provide additional funds for general corporate purposes.
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QEP Resources Announces Amendment to Credit Agreement
June 8, 2020QEP Resources, Inc. (NYSE:QEP) (QEP or the Company) announced today that it has entered into an amendment to its existing credit agreement with Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, and other lenders (the Credit Agreement).
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Suppliers Tap Receivables for Liquidity Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, MUFG Says
June 8, 2020A growing number of suppliers are using their receivables as a source of liquidity to alleviate financial strains in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, according to Maureen Sullivan, Head of Supply Chain Finance at Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG). Receivables are legally enforceable claims for payment held by a business for the goods it supplies or services it renders that customers have ordered but not paid for. These claims usually take the form of invoices issued by the supplier and delivered to the buyer for payment within an agreed timeframe.
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North Mill Capital Announces Transactions
June 8, 2020North Mill Capital announces the funding of a $1,750,000 asset-based revolving line of credit to a wholesaler and distributor of pure maple syrup in Wisconsin; $500,000 accounts receivable credit facility to an Illinois manufacturer of springs and metal stamping for the automotive industry and $500,000 accounts receivable credit facility to a trucking company in Pennsylvania.
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