Restructuring Becomes Pit Stop to Bankruptcy for Risky Borrowers
- Liability management can keep a firm afloat for longer
- But there’s evidence they may not always lead to best outcomes
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Robertshaw, a troubled appliance partmaker, cut two controversial financing deals last year to try to keep itself afloat. Then, this year, it filed for bankruptcy anyway.
That’s becoming a pattern, according to one analysis by Bank of America: when companies get contentious financings that give special treatment to a handful of their creditors, they still default again about 40% of the time.