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Bond Markets Overview – Issuers
• The market for debt instruments of all types – sovereign, corporate,
securitized, etc. – represents by far the largest and most important
type of financing by value worldwide.
• Stock of capital market debt instruments outstanding exceeds both
total stock market capitalization and total amount of bank loans (BIS,
SIFMA, S&P, Dealogic, McKinsey), (the ratio is around 3:1:1 taking a
roughly 300 trillion USD world market capitalization)
• The most important issuers of bonds in any market are the relevant
public authorities – i.e., the sovereign and quasi‐sovereign issuers,
especially the national government.
• Financial institutions tend to dominate the market's non‐sovereign
issues, followed by corporate issuers.
• Some markets also have a significant mortgage‐backed securities
sector (such as US Agency and German Pfandebriefe).
• Our session will focus on such bond markets and the behaviour of their
bondholders.
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Bond Markets – European specifics, continued
• A further trend is the continued growth of the corporate bonds
market because of the needs for new financings due to credit
crunch.
– Sustainability of this tendency can be expected, as requirements of
Bazel III limits the participation of credit institution in the financing of
corporations.
– Another reason is that there is a development of an emerging new
market for SMEs. We can see:
• Proposal from the European Commission to create a « SME growth
market »;
• Development of specific platforms by European stocks markets (LES: MTS
Credit; Stuttgart: Bond, Borsa italiana);
• Setting up of a new specific platform (France);
• Flexible access to the bond market for SME (ex: grouped issuings, mini
bonds in UK).
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Bond Markets – European specifics, continued
• On the enforcement side Council Regulation (EC) 1346/2000 on
insolvency proceedings aimed (i) to establish common rules
regarding courts competency, applicable law and the recognition of
the court’s decisions, and (ii) at dissuading the debtor from doing
“forum shopping”.
– Law and jurisdiction of courts of center of main interest (COMI)
member state (MS) and secondary proceedings in other MSs where
the debtor has a place of operation (limited in scope to the debtor’s
assets in this MS and are only winding‐up proceedings).
– Specific provision related to bondholders’s rights in Art. 5 state, that
„The opening of insolvency proceedings shall not affect the rights in
rem of creditors in respect of tangible or intangible, moveable or
immoveable assets belonging to the debtor which are situated within
the territory of another Member State at the time of the opening of
proceedings.”
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Bond Markets – Latin America specifics
• In the past 2 years highly rated investment grade bonds have tended
to dominate the issuance in Latin America. In this region, the main
investors are pension funds (like AFP) and insurance companies.
• Lack of activism characterizes the market. Although issuance deeds
ordinarily contain protective covenants, any bondholders’ action can
only be decided in a bondholders’ meeting, which can only be
summoned by the bondholders’ representative. Obtaining the
necessary majorities, as elsewhere, may be very difficult.
• Some bondholders (such as the AFPs) may also have an equity
interest in the company, and therefore they may decide not to take
an action as bondholders in order to protect their interests as
shareholders.
• Judicial procedures tend not to be expedient or fast.
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Composition of the Chilean debt market
– In terms of issuers’ rating (local rating):
• AAA : 14.8%
• AA : 45.6%
• A : 36.7%
• BB+ : 2.9%
• More than 97% of the issuances are by issuers with a rating of A or higher;
this could explain that the cases of default in the bond market are almost
nonexistent.
– In terms of investors:
• AFPs : 41.3%
• Insurance companies : 47.2%
• Mutual funds : 6.5%
• Others : 5.1%
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Bond Markets – Other regions
• Generally, Asian bond markets are booming! This is due to:
– A good default track record at high yields;
– A slowing in the availability of bank credit locally means that Asian
companies are increasingly turning to capital market debt instruments as
an important source of finance;
– Lower yields available in the US;
• Borrowing from Middle East and Africa during the past two years
via international securities issuances reached the highest
amount ever raised (almost equal to the combined total Europe
and Asia‐Pacific together) (BIS March 2012 quarterly)
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Activist Strategic Options
• Loan to Own Investments
– Distressed companies
– Capturing enterprise value
• Conversion of Debt to Equity
• Aggressive Enforcement of Contractual Rights
– Technical Default Provisions
– Acceleration of Debt
– Default Interest
– Consent and Other Default Waiver Fees
– Restrictive Covenants
• DIP and Exit Finance Lending
• Control of Restructuring Process
– Out of Court
– Formal Court Proceedings
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Question Marks Surrounding
Bondholder Activism
• Insider trading concerns and coordinated bondholder action
• No‐action clauses and the difficulties of collective action
– No action clauses used by companies to impede bondholder activism
– In order to commence proceedings to enforce rights under the trust
indenture, bondholders typically must:
• Give trustee notice of a continuing event of default
• Hold at least 25% of principal and make a written request to the trustee to
pursue a remedy
• Provide an indemnity acceptable to the trustee
• Trustee does not comply with request within 60 days of notice and offer of
indemnity
• During 60 day period, holders of a majority in value do not provide
inconsistent direction to the trustee
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Government/legislative intervention –
Irish examples, continued
• Irish State bank guarantee schemes
– 2008 CIFs Scheme ‐ Implemented a State guarantee scheme for
“covered liabilities” (deposits and other liabilities) of “covered
institutions” (who paid State a fee for the guarantee)
– 2009 Eligible Liabilities Guarantee (ELG) Scheme ‐ Covers senior
unsecured certificates of deposit, senior unsecured commercial paper
and other senior unsecured bonds and notes
• Eligibility criteria – debt security must be incurred during the period from
the date the relevant participating institution joined the ELG Scheme up to
and including 31 December 2012, have a maturity of less than 5 years, not
contain an event of default constituted by cross default or cross
acceleration
• As at July 2012 €30 billion of issued bonds were guaranteed under the ELG
Scheme and programmes greatly in excess of that figure are guaranteed
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Government/legislative intervention –
Irish examples, continued
– Aurelius Capital Master ‐v‐ Minister for Finance
• Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c. announced the commencement of an LME. Aurelius
(and other hedge funds) purchased subordinated bonds after that date
• Aurelius challenged the SLO (constitutionality, contractual amendments
and fair procedures). Coupon payable during the trial and AIB set aside the
coupon pending the outcome of the challenge
• Aurelius withdrew claim after 10 days in court
• Terms of settlement confidential
– Abadi ‐v‐ Minister for Finance
• Abadi launched a challenge in respect of the same bonds and withdrew it
on day 2
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Government/legislative intervention –
Irish examples, continued
– Assenagon ‐v‐ Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Limited
• English case which considered the legality of an exit consent arising out of
an LME process – trust deed governed by English law. Court upheld the
principle that the majority power must be exercised bona fide in the best
interests of all bondholders and not in a manner which is oppressive to the
minority.
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Enforcement of bondholders’ rights
during Insolvency – Other Issues
• Does the lack of an efficient proper restructuring process (pre
and/or post insolvency) in your jurisdiction affect the appetite
for hedge funds activism?
• Impact of hedge funds on enforcement and work outs.
• Can creditors and equity holders be cramed down such that
the company can restart once it is deleveraged?
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The Spanish Example
Why is it so difficult?
1. Enforcement of bondholder rights is reasonably simple in Spain from a
contractual perspective but becomes problematic when the issuer
becomes insolvent.
2. Not al EoDs are sufficient for acceleration ‐ restrictive court resolutions.
3. Acceleration leads almost inevitably to insolvency unless a restructuring
is consensually agreed in short timeframes.
4. Insolvency process is value‐destructive and difficult to overcome due to:
i. No cram‐down before insolvency unless by court homologation and only for
unsecured financial entities.
ii. No „where the value brakes principle” and no equity cram‐down at
anytime.
iii. The stigma of becoming insolvent.
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Lessons for the Issuer side
• Consult corporate/restructuring and tax colleagues when
drafting the terms of the bond to assess risks of possibly
changing composition of bond holders on a broader scale and
warn the issuer to assess risks not only for the short term
benefits of the bond issue!
• Do not rely entirely on common combined knowledge of
standard documentation !
• Read the bond covenants, particularly the non‐financial
covenants carefully and with critical eye – it will not hurt !
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