Chapter 7: Bankruptcy liquidation

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Chapter 7: Bankruptcy liquidation발음듣기

In the last set of videos, we've hopefully familiarized ourselves with the different ways that a company can raise capital.발음듣기

It can do it through debt or equity.발음듣기

And we learned that debt securities are often called bonds.발음듣기

And equity securities you're probably familiar with.발음듣기

Those are stocks.발음듣기

And then I left you with a cliffhanger.발음듣기

Let draw it so I don't get ahead of myself.발음듣기

So these are the assets of a company and it was able to generate these assets.발음듣기

So there's a couple of ways you can generate assets.발음듣기

You can get investors through equity, and we've done several videos on that.발음듣기

You start with the angel investors, or maybe your rich uncle, and then eventually get venture capitalists, and you do an initial public offering.발음듣기

And then you can do follow-on offerings.발음듣기

And so on and so forth.발음듣기

Now we see governments will buy equity in you if you are a bank that's too big to fail.발음듣기

But we'll do a whole playlist on that. So equity.발음듣기

That's one way that you can get cash or get capital so that you can buy assets to run your business.발음듣기

The other way is you can borrow money from people.발음듣기

So the equity holders are actually the owners of the company.발음듣기

So you might have been part of the equity holder, and you have to sell some of the equity, or sell some shares in your company for someone else to give money.발음듣기

Then they become kind of like your partner.발음듣기

And the other way is you could borrow money.발음듣기

Let me draw that.발음듣기

That we'll just put generally as liability.발음듣기

Debt isn't the only kind of liability, but that's a pretty reasonable simplification for now.발음듣기

There's other things.발음듣기

In general, liability means you owe something to somebody in the future.발음듣기

So these are liabilities.발음듣기

And we'll assume right now that your debt is your main liability.발음듣기

You might have other liabilities.발음듣기

You might have some type of legal liability, where someone is suing you or you had sprayed asbestos on a bunch of playgrounds, thinking that it was actually good for the playground equipment and now there's all of this liability because, well, you get the idea.발음듣기

But from now on we'll have the simplification that debt is your liability.발음듣기

And we said there's different kinds of debt.발음듣기

If you securitize it, it's often a bond. Right?발음듣기

That would be a certificate that's an IOU from a company.발음듣기

It'll pay you coupons or interest and so forth.발음듣기

Or you can also just get regular bank debt, where you owe the bank money.발음듣기

And I left you with a question the last time around.발음듣기

I said, let's say this company goes into bankruptcy.발음듣기

And let's say that these assets aren't worth what we think they are, right?발음듣기

In this world, if we just have to sell off these assets, fine.발음듣기

The debt guys would get paid off.발음듣기

And the equity guys would get left over with whatever else.발음듣기

So let's say if this was on our books.발음듣기

Whenever you hear things like book value, and I've done a couple of videos on book value versus market value, but the book value is essentially what you have on your accounting books.발음듣기

You say that this is worth $10 million. Right?발음듣기

Let's say we've bought land and factories and whatever else worth $10 million.발음듣기

Let's say your debt is $6 million.발음듣기

Then your equity would be worth $4 million.발음듣기

And let's say, for whatever reason, the economy turns south or maybe this was some type of business that's now not viable.발음듣기

So it's going to go into bankruptcy.발음듣기

And I'll get a little bit more specific on the different types of bankruptcy.발음듣기

But we're assuming liquidation.발음듣기

Actually I'll just get specific right now.발음듣기

So when we say bankruptcy, bankruptcy is a very common word.발음듣기

I think most people have a general sense what it means.발음듣기

They know it's bad and it means to some degree that a company can't operate as it was before.발음듣기

But there's a lot of confusion over what it means.발음듣기

There's actually two types of bankruptcy.발음듣기

There's liquidation.발음듣기

And that's essentially saying that, you know what, this business doesn't make any sense.발음듣기

It doesn't make sense to have the employees and run the factories.발음듣기

You're never going to make any money, so you might as well just sell everything you have. You liquidate it all.발음듣기

That's one type.발음듣기

And that falls under the category of Chapter 7.발음듣기

And we're just talking about corporate bankruptcy right now.발음듣기

There's also personal bankruptcy.발음듣기

And maybe we'll do a couple of videos on that.발음듣기

It might be especially relevant in this economy.발음듣기

Well, the other type is reorganization or restructuring.발음듣기

And restructuring says, you know what?발음듣기

This factory here, it's actually making something useful.발음듣기

It's actually generating money.발음듣기

And actually we can get more value for what we have here if we keep it running.발음듣기

And we will just keep it running, and we'll restructure the company.발음듣기

And usually that means changing this side of it.발음듣기

So maybe we'll cancel some debt and all of that.발음듣기

And I'll show you how that's done in a reasonably fair way.발음듣기

But just to understand kind of a simplified scenario, let's take liquidation into consideration.발음듣기

So let's say that this was my website selling shoes online, and that all of a sudden people have stopped wearing shoes.발음듣기

It's just gone out of fashion, so it makes no sense anymore to sell shoes online.발음듣기

So I'm just going to liquidate my assets, my real estate that I might have, my warehouses, et cetera, et cetera.발음듣기

My question that I left you with in the last video was, who gets it?발음듣기

So let's say when we liquidate it - so we go into bankruptcy and essentially all of the assets are taken into possession by the bankruptcy court - they're going to sell these assets.발음듣기

And let's say when they sell them, they don't get $10 million for these assets.발음듣기

They only get $5 million for them. Right?발음듣기

I paid for them thinking that they were useful in some way, but they end up not to be, so my assets - You know what, I just realized when I talked earlier about there's two ways to raise capital, there's a third way to raise capital. Right?발음듣기

You can sell shares.발음듣기

You can issue debt.발음듣기

You can borrow money.발음듣기

Obviously the third way is actually just make money. Right?발음듣기

Once you start a company, hopefully you generate earnings, and that'll also generate cash or capital that you can reinvest in the business.발음듣기

And we'll talk about that.발음듣기

But I just wanted to make it clear that that's obviously the best way to generate capital for your business is when the business itself generates capital.발음듣기

So let's say that these assets, when you actually sell them off, aren't worth $10 million anymore.발음듣기

Let me make the pointer smaller.발음듣기

They're worth $5 million.발음듣기

So my question in the last video is, who gets this $5 million?발음듣기

Do you somehow split it evenly between all of these people?발음듣기

Or does one of them get more of it, or one of them gets less of it?발음듣기

And I think you'll get a sense based on where I took the $5 million out of, who gets the money.발음듣기

It's the debt holders.발음듣기

And the way I drew it right here, you can kind of view it as you go up in this direction, you're getting more senior.발음듣기

Or if you're going down in this way, you're getting more junior.발음듣기

And seniority, when you talk about a company's capital structure, is just, you know what, if there's anything left, who gets their money first?발음듣기

And even within the debt, you'll have different layers of debt.발음듣기

There might be different debt holders who have different levels of seniority.발음듣기

So this one might be called senior secured debt.발음듣기

Senior means they're high up on the stack.발음듣기

They are one of the first people to get their money.발음듣기

And secured means there's actually some collateral on the asset side that they get if the company can't pay.발음듣기

So maybe this is like a piece of land. Right?발음듣기

So just in kind of our everyday personal finance world, your mortgage is actually secured debt.발음듣기

It's secured by the collateral of your home.발음듣기

If you can't pay the debt, the bank comes and takes your home.발음듣기

It forecloses on the property.발음듣기

So that's what secured means.발음듣기

It means that there's some collateral, and in the event of a bankruptcy this guy can immediately go and get the collateral that his debt is secured by.발음듣기

So this is considered a very, very senior form of debt. Senior secured.발음듣기

Then you might have here, you might have senior unsecured.발음듣기

And there's a lot of words around, senior, junior, subordinate, and all of that.발음듣기

But just to get a sense that there's just a hierarchy here.발음듣기

Some people are the first people to get the money, and then whatever money is left goes to this person, then if there's any money left, it goes to this person, and then if there's anything left it goes to this person.발음듣기

And once you're in bankruptcy court it does tend to be a negotiation between the different, you can almost view it as buckets, of debt.발음듣기

And we'll do a more complicated example in the future on that.발음듣기

We'll actually delve into the details of bankruptcy.발음듣기

But this is the general notion.발음듣기

That the senior guys get made whole first, then the more junior guys get whatever's left, and so on and so forth.발음듣기

And if there's no money for the equity, there's no money for the equity.발음듣기

And that makes sense, right?발음듣기

Because the debt holders, all they were getting - their upside was just interest, right?발음듣기

So they also should get limited downside in the event things should turn bad.발음듣기

Equity holders, they kind of took a gamble.발음듣기

If things were great, they would get all of the upside.발음듣기

And now that things turn bad, they take a lot of the downside.발음듣기

And they're actually lucky that they don't owe money.발음듣기

That's actually the - I guess you could call it - the beauty of a corporate structure, that you have limited liability.발음듣기

In some times in history, these people would actually owe the difference.발음듣기

They would actually owe this extra $1 million.발음듣기

They would all go to debtor's prison and all that.발음듣기

But we'll talk more about it in the future.발음듣기

So anyway, just going back on the different tranches of debt, or buckets of debt.발음듣기

So we could call this senior unsecured.발음듣기

And that means that they're still senior.발음듣기

They're still fairly high up the seniority ladder.발음듣기

But they're unsecured.발음듣기

There's no particular assets that they can go run.발음듣기

But as long as there's enough for them, they'll get it.발음듣기

So let me put some numbers here.발음듣기

So let's say there was, I don't know, $1 million of senior secured.발음듣기

Let's say there's $2 million of senior unsecured.발음듣기

And let's say that this is $2 million of subordinated - subordinated just means they're not senior - unsecured.발음듣기

So in this reality, what would happen is the bankruptcy court would liquidate all this stuff and then they'll hand it out in order of seniority.발음듣기

These guys get their $1 million back.발음듣기

So they're made whole.발음듣기

And they probably charged a lower interest rate, because they didn't perceive their risk that high to begin with.발음듣기

These guys, right here, the senior unsecured, they'll get the next $2 million.발음듣기

And then there's $1 million left. Right?발음듣기

And that $1 million will go to the subordinated debt.발음듣기

So they'll get 50% of their money back.발음듣기

So they took a little bit of a hit, but that's OK because when things were good, they probably got higher interest to compensate them for their risk.발음듣기

Usually as you get more and more junior and you take on more risk, you get more upside, or more interest.발음듣기

And in this case the equity holders get nothing.발음듣기

They get wiped out.발음듣기

So it just goes to 0.발음듣기

So that's the answer to the question.발음듣기

I said, who gets the money?발음듣기

Well, it's the debt holders get first dibs.발음듣기

And if there was actually $7 million here instead of $5 million, then you would have paid the six off completely, and then the equity holders would've gotten $1 million.발음듣기

And so they would have gotten something if there was enough money to hand it to them.발음듣기

Anyway, in the next video I'll cover - this was liquidation, where we just say this isn't worth running.발음듣기

Let's just give it all away, or let's sell it, and give it back to our creditors.발음듣기

In the next video I'll talk about reorganization, where we say, hey, you know what?발음듣기

This business is a good business.발음듣기

It just has too many liabilities.발음듣기

See you in the next video.발음듣기

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