Chapter 11: Bankruptcy Restructuring발음듣기
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In the last video we talked about the scenario where a company, for whatever reason, it just couldn't pay it's debt holders.발음듣기
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So let's say these are debt holders right here.발음듣기
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This is the debt, or the liabilities.발음듣기
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It couldn't pay it's debt holders.발음듣기
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It went into bankruptcy, and it was determined that these assets that it had right here, that it made no sense operating them as a company.발음듣기
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And then the bankruptcy court essentially just decided to liquidate it.발음듣기
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And we learned that the debt holders were actually more senior to the equity holders.발음듣기
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And they get paid first. And if there wasn't enough money to pay all of the debt holders, then the equity holders got nothing.발음듣기
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And that was called a Chapter 7.발음듣기
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We're just focusing on the corporate world right now.발음듣기
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Maybe we'll do personal soon. So that's Chapter 7 liquidation.발음듣기
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That was the last video. And in that case, and I think that's what most people associate when you say that a company has gone bankrupt.발음듣기
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That it'll just disappear. That people just say, OK, these assets don't make any sense.발음듣기
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They can't pay these guys. We're just going to take these into possession by the courts and then just liquidate the assets.발음듣기
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But that raises kind of an obvious question of, well, what if these assets are worth something?발음듣기
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What if I sell a socks website, and socks have gotten even more popular.발음듣기
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And the only problem is I just can't pay all of the interest that I owe on the debt.발음듣기
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Right? Maybe, for whatever reason, I took out a really crazy loan that was variable rate.발음듣기
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Or for some reason, I have to pay back some loans because I messed - and I'll talk more about covenants and things like that.발음듣기
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Covenants are pretty much a bunch of rules that the debt holders say, look, you're good, but if any of these x, y, or z things happen, we can take you into bankruptcy.발음듣기
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And we could force you into bankruptcy.발음듣기
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So maybe because of that, I'm in bankruptcy.발음듣기
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But it's determined that these assets, right here, are actually worth more as an operating entity than they are if you were to liquidate them.발음듣기
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A good example might be, I don't know, a car company.발음듣기
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Right? Let's actually take this example as a car company, because it's very salient to our, at least it was - I've heard a lot less about the auto bailouts, but it was very salient at the end of last year.발음듣기
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So let's say that these are car factories and land and whatever else.발음듣기
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And if we're the debt holders, and let's say it goes into bankruptcy.발음듣기
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Let's say this is generating cash.발음듣기
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And I'll teach you in a future video how do you see what is the cash being generated by the assets.발음듣기
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And then you have to subtract out the cash that has to be used to pay the debt holders, because you're paying interest, and then what's left over for equity.발음듣기
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And I'll show you how to do that on an income statement.발음듣기
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But let's say this is generating a lot of cash.발음듣기
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Right? It's generating a good bit of cash, but let's say, these guys eat up interest.발음듣기
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Right? So some of the cash will go to the debt holders as interest.발음듣기
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And let's say, for whatever reason, either interest rates went up, or they had a bad quarter or a bad year, and they just didn't generate enough cash, let's say they couldn't pay off one of the debt holders.발음듣기
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And that debt holder says, hey, you couldn't pay my interest payment, or you couldn't pay the principal payment.발음듣기
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I'm taking you into bankruptcy. Right?발음듣기
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I'm taking you into bankruptcy. So it goes into bankruptcy.발음듣기
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And in this situation, immediately we realize it makes no sense to shutter this asset.발음듣기
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If we were just to shut down the factory and lay off the employees, we're going to get nothing for these assets.발음듣기
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Because the land is in a part of the country where'd there's no obvious buyer for the land.발음듣기
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An empty car factory is pretty much useless, especially when the other people in the industry are in no mood to buy the factories from you.발음듣기
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So everyone decides that it's in their best interests to keep this thing running.발음듣기
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So what happens is that the debtor stays in possession of the assets.발음듣기
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So you can kind of view the debtor as the equity holders and the management of the company.발음듣기
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So they stay in possession of the assets.발음듣기
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And actually what happens is - because these guys didn't have enough cash to pay off their debt holders - what happens is that they take on a new loan, called a debtor-in-possession loan.발음듣기
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And this new loan is the most senior loan.발음듣기
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It's called DIP financing. It's actually a great business, although it's become scarce recently.발음듣기
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It's a great business because you're at the top of the stack.발음듣기
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You're more senior than even the senior guys.발음듣기
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And it's called DIP financing. Debtor-in-possession financing.발음듣기
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And what this provides is a company with some kind of cushion cash so that it can keep operating, so it can keep the lights on.발음듣기
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So it's essentially a debt. It's just a very senior type of debt.발음듣기
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And it happens once a company has entered bankruptcy.발음듣기
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Right? And this bankruptcy that we're going to talk about is Chapter 11.발음듣기
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Chapter 11 restructuring. And in Chapter 11 restructuring, you keep operating the company.발음듣기
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You might do some things on the left-hand side of the equation.발음듣기
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You might want to sell off some of the assets and all of that, but we won't go into that.발음듣기
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Most of what you do is you rearrange this side of the balance sheet.발음듣기
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And this is why, you probably - every airline has, some of them, have gone into bankruptcy multiple times, but they still exist.발음듣기
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It's not like when you go into bankruptcy the company just disappears.발음듣기
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The assets will persist and all of this gets reorganized on this side.발음듣기
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A lot of times when someone goes into Chapter 11 and then they come out of it and they go back into it, they call that Chapter 22, and then Chapter 33.발음듣기
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I think you get the idea.발음듣기
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So anyway, what happens in Chapter 11?발음듣기
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So the assets - essentially it becomes kind of the bankruptcy court takes over, and they hire some investments.발음듣기
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They'll get the debtor-in-possession financing so that the company has some cash to operate, pay the bills, and pay the employees and whatever else.발음듣기
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The company keeps operating as it always would so it can pay its suppliers and operate as a regular business.발음듣기
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And then all of these guys hire a bunch of lawyers.발음듣기
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And they start negotiating with each other.발음듣기
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And essentially there will be a bank associated with the bankruptcy court whose whole job - and it's all part of a negotiation - is to value this.발음듣기
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And it's often, maybe this debtor right here, he'll hire one bank.발음듣기
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This debtor will hire one bank.발음듣기
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Maybe the management will hire another bank.발음듣기
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And everyone's going to come up with bankruptcy plans.발음듣기
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But bankruptcy plans are usually of one or more varieties.발음듣기
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It's essentially just saying, well, we need to value these assets, right?발음듣기
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We're not selling it. So we're not just going to get cash.발음듣기
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We're going to hire some bankers.발음듣기
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And we'll do a lot of videos on that in the future.발음듣기
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And they're just going to say - based on the prospects of this company, how fast it's growing or how fast it's not growing, or how much cash it's generating in a year - they're going to assign a value to it.발음듣기
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So let's say that this guy up here, he hires a banker.발음듣기
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And this banker says - Let's say this was originally the same situation.발음듣기
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This was $10 million. Let's say that the liabilities were $6 million.발음듣기
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And that the original equity was $4 million.발음듣기
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Right? And let's say these bankers evaluate the business.발음듣기
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They make detailed models. They take it in the context of the current macro environment.발음듣기
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And they say, you know what?발음듣기
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I think this company is actually only worth $5 million.발음듣기
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And given that it's worth $5 million, and we think that it can sustain - it's only worth $5 million and there's no way that it can pay interest on $6 million of debt.발음듣기
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Right? It doesn't have enough cash to generate $6 million of debt.발음듣기
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We think it can afford $2 million of debt.발음듣기
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Right? So what will happen is, the new company - And this is just a plan.발음듣기
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And then once you have a plan, then everyone has to vote on it, and there are things called cram downs - and we'll do that in more detail - but the plan will say, you know what?발음듣기
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The assets are worth $5 million.발음듣기
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I thought I was using the square tool.발음듣기
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Undo. This plan might say, you know, those assets are worth $5 million.발음듣기
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And the company can only handle $2 million of debt, not $6 million of debt.발음듣기
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So now, it can only handle $2 million of debt, and then there will be $3 million left of equity.발음듣기
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Right? And I'll call this the new equity.발음듣기
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Because sometimes this can get confusing.발음듣기
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So let's just say for a second - and I want you to think about it - what is everyone's incentive?발음듣기
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This guy up here, his incentive is to value the company as lowly as possible, right?발음듣기
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Because then he gets more of the company.발음듣기
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I think that'll be clear to you in a second.발음듣기
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This guy's incentive is to say, no, this company is worth a lot.발음듣기
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So all of you guys are going to get paid back and then I get what's left over.발음듣기
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And you're probably asking, what do you get paid back for not liquidating it?발음듣기
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And the answer is the new shares of the company.발음듣기
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So what happens is that this stock - let's say this plan gets passed.발음듣기
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This plan right here. In this situation, these guys up here were the most senior, right?발음듣기
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Let's say there was $2 million of senior debt up here.발음듣기
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Let me write that in a different color.발음듣기
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There's $2 million of senior debt up here.발음듣기
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So what they'll do is they'll actually get $2 million of the new debt.발음듣기
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They're most senior. And then all of these other $4 million, who are more junior - let me see if I can color it in.발음듣기
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I know it's hard to read - these other $4 million guys, instead of getting any kind of cash or any kind of debt securities for having been owed this money, they'll get the new stock.발음듣기
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So they'll get $3 million of new stock.발음듣기
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Let me see if I can draw that in.발음듣기
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So this $3 million of new equity will go to these guys.발음듣기
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And this unsecured guy down here, he's not going to get as much equity.발음듣기
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He'll be impaired a little bit.발음듣기
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And the old equity guys, the stock's going to go to 0.발음듣기
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They're not going to get anything.발음듣기
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So the old shareholders of the company are wiped out.발음듣기
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They go to 0. And essentially, the debt holders become the new shareholders of the company.발음듣기
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You'll often see when a company goes into bankruptcy but it's getting reorganized, you'll often see some people start to buy up this debt or these bonds, right here, because they want to be the new equity holders.발음듣기
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When this company emerges from bankruptcy - let's say that this is how it emerges from bankruptcy - they want to be these guys, the new equity holders.발음듣기
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Because usually when you value it, you want to undervalue it a little bit.발음듣기
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I know I've overdrawn this picture a little bit too much.발음듣기
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But the debt guys, especially the senior debt guys, they want to be safe.발음듣기
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They want to say, you know what?발음듣기
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We've already been hurt by this company.발음듣기
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They're already not paying our debt.발음듣기
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We want to assign as low a possible value to the company as possible - in this case $5 million - so that we make sure.발음듣기
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Hopefully the company ends up being worth $10 million again, in which case these guys right here make out like bandits, right?발음듣기
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If the company was really worth $10 million but the bankruptcy court values it at $5 million, these guys get all of the shares of the company.발음듣기
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These guys get wiped out, even though the company really was worth something.발음듣기
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So let's say the company emerges from bankruptcy like this, but it actually turns out there were $10 million.발음듣기
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Then let's say a year later the company starts doing well again.발음듣기
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And let's say that someone could value the company again at $10 million.발음듣기
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Now it only has $2 million of debt.발음듣기
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And now you have $8 million worth of equity.발음듣기
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So these guys - maybe they were owed $2 or $3 million before, and they got $3 million of the new equity, they might have made out like bandits.발음듣기
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Because now all of a sudden, that equity could be worth a lot.발음듣기
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That's not always the case. But that's the view from the debt holders' point of view.발음듣기
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The equity holders, you can imagine, they don't want to be left with nothing.발음듣기
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They'll hire their own bankers. And their bankers, they'll probably submit a plan that says, no, no, no, no.발음듣기
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This company is worth at least $8 million.발음듣기
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So up here $8 million. And we think it can handle $4 million of debt.발음듣기
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So they'd want a scenario like this, where they think the company's worth $8 million.발음듣기
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It can handle $4 million worth of debt.발음듣기
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And so it has $4 million worth of equity.발음듣기
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And of course, the first $6 million of the value - so the $4 million of debt, and then $2 million of the equity will go to the debt holders, right?발음듣기
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Because they were owed $6 million to begin with.발음듣기
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And then what's left over, which is essentially - so this is $2 million of equity, and then you'd have $2 million of equity here - this $2 million of new equity, right?발음듣기
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This is the new shares of the company will be given to the old shareholders of the company.발음듣기
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So that's what the shareholders want.발음듣기
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I know this gets a little confusing, but it all ends up being valuing the assets as you emerge from bankruptcy.발음듣기
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You say, you know, it's generating cash, it's worth something.발음듣기
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And then you pay people off according to seniority.발음듣기
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And first you pay them off.발음듣기
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You say, OK, I still owe you some money.발음듣기
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But this company can't support $6 million of debt.발음듣기
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It can now support $2 million.발음듣기
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And whatever's left, people are paid with actually shares - new shares - of the company.발음듣기
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Not the old shares. So the old shares will go to 0.발음듣기
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So you can imagine a world where GM goes bankrupt.발음듣기
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Right now, the shares of GM go to 0.발음듣기
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GM old goes to 0. But the assets keep operating, and that's why some people are a little bit misleading in this whole automotive bankruptcy debate.발음듣기
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They're kind of using scare tactics to say, oh, if GM goes bankrupt, then these assets are just going to disappear.발음듣기
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No, they'll just keep operating. If it makes sense to operate them, they'll keep operating.발음듣기
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The only people who will lose big are the old equity holders.발음듣기
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And then some of the unsecured, the more junior levels of debt, will probably lose some money.발음듣기
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But if the assets are worth operating, they'll continue to operate.발음듣기
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And if the people, if it makes sense to have them employed, they'll keep working.발음듣기
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See you in the next video.발음듣기
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