Finance Deals & Syndicated Lending · glossary

Financing condition

A term in a purchase contract letting the buyer walk away if its loan falls through. European sellers rarely accept one, so the buyer must have its loan committed before it signs. Chapter 4

Explained in Chapter 4, From Term Sheet to Signing, of Finance Deals & Syndicated Lending.

How it comes up, in Chapter 4
A buyer signs the share purchase agreement (SPA) first and pays the price at completion, often months later. In Europe a seller will almost never accept a financing condition, a term that lets the buyer walk away if its loan falls through. So the buyer must pay whether or not its banks lend, and is in breach if the money is missing. The buyer therefore needs certain funds: a loan committed before the SPA is signed, which the lenders can refuse to fund only for a few serious…
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