Reorg Blog

Written by Seth Brumby in New York | Reorg’s expansion into the municipal market continues to uncover opportunities while forecasting major credit events. Readers took a keen interest in coverage of Limetree Bay, a distressed situation that grew out of municipal coverage of the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Reorg municipal and Americas editorial teams joined resources over the past few weeks, producing a series of scoops on advisor mandates that foreshadowed the refinery’s eventual chapter 11 filing this week in the Southern District of Texas. Advisor mandates have long been an important leading indicator of an impending transaction. With that in...

Featuring a discussion on municipal credit trends across the continuing care retirement community industry in the Americas, our municipals experts Patrick Mohan and Seth Brumby will be conducting a webinar on Thursday, July 22 at 11:00a.m. EST. The industry has seen a wide range of outcomes, including Vicar’s Landing’s recent borrowing of $84.3 million in connection with the expansion of its Ponte Vedra Beach community, the chapter 11 filings of The Harborside and The Buckingham, and defaulted credits that are still exploring options like Glen Hope Harbor and American Eagle.  The team will also discuss how Covid-19 has affected the industry,...

On May 14, representatives of Mainland China and Hong Kong signed a record of meeting on mutual recognition of and assistance to bankruptcy/insolvency proceedings between the respective courts, creating a new cooperation protocol for cross-border insolvency. In this webinar, Fergus Saurin of Kirkland & Ellis and Lingqi Wang of Fangda Partners will Reorg's managing editor for onshore China, Shasha Dai, to discuss the new developments and implications for insolvency and bankruptcy law practitioners. Learn more and register here.

Analyzing the new Laredo Petroleum senior notes, our Americas Covenants team takes a deep dive into the company’s low leverage ratio and their inability to incur any additional secured debt. The energy company, which focuses on the acquisition, exploration and development of oil and natural gas properties in the Permian Basin, acquired Sabalo Energy on July 1, 2021 and entered into their sixth amendment to their credit agreement on May 7th. Based on these capital structure changes, our Americas Covenants team came to a few conclusions about the Laredo Petroleum senior notes as well as the company’s cash sweep, financial...

Chinese real estate developers Yuzhou, Shimao and Logan have issued private bonds in recent months, and more companies have contemplated doing so. These off-balance-sheet borrowings were often raised through special purpose vehicles and not represented on the issuers’ consolidated financial statements. Some market observers view these bonds as the companies’ efforts to circumvent the government’s “three red lines” policy aimed at reining in developers' leverage ratios. While such borrowings add to the opaqueness of the companies’ liabilities, Fitch Ratings said it believes these bonds represent a relatively small portion of the debt structure and have a limited impact on the companies’ repayment risk. Nonetheless, regulators...