Finance Deals & Syndicated Lending · glossary

Equity cure

A right for the owners to fix a failed financial covenant test by putting in fresh money, which the test then counts. Some leveraged loans have one. Sunrise does not, so a waiver is the only way out. Chapter 9

Explained in Chapter 9, Undertakings and Financial Covenants, of Finance Deals & Syndicated Lending.

How it comes up, in Chapter 9
Some leveraged loans also allow an equity cure: the owners put in fresh money after a failed test, and the test counts it. Sunrise has no equity cure, so a waiver is the only way out. Chapter 10 covers the rest of what follows a breach.
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