Skip to content
Felix
  • Topics
    • My List
    • Felix Guide
    • Asset Management
    • Coding and Data Analysis
      • Data Analysis and Visualization
      • Financial Data Tools
      • Python
      • SQL
    • Credit
      • Credit Analysis
      • Restructuring
    • Financial Literacy Essentials
      • Financial Data Tools
      • Financial Math
      • Foundations of Accounting
    • Industry Specific
      • Banks
      • Chemicals
      • Consumer
      • ESG
      • Insurance
      • Oil and Gas
      • Pharmaceuticals
      • Project Finance
      • Real Estate
      • Renewable Energy
      • Technology
      • Telecoms
    • Introductory Courses
    • Investment Banking
      • Accounting
      • Financial Modeling
      • M&A and Divestitures
      • Private Debt
      • Private Equity
      • Valuation
      • Venture Capital
    • Markets
      • Economics
      • Equity Markets and Derivatives
      • Fixed Income and Derivatives
      • Introduction to Markets
      • Options and Structured Products
      • Other Capital Markets
      • Securities Services
    • Microsoft Office
      • Excel
      • PowerPoint
      • Word & Outlook
    • Professional Skills
      • Career Development
      • Expert Interviews
      • Interview Skills
    • Risk Management
    • Transaction Banking
    • Felix Live
  • Pathways
    • Investment Banking
    • Asset Management
    • Equity Research
    • Sales and Trading
    • Commercial Banking
    • Engineering
    • Operations
    • Private Equity
    • Credit Analysis
    • Restructuring
    • Venture Capital
    • CFA Institute
  • Certified Courses
  • Ask An Instructor
  • Support
  • Log in
  • Topics
    • My List
    • Felix Guide
    • Asset Management
    • Coding and Data Analysis
      • Data Analysis and Visualization
      • Financial Data Tools
      • Python
      • SQL
    • Credit
      • Credit Analysis
      • Restructuring
    • Financial Literacy Essentials
      • Financial Data Tools
      • Financial Math
      • Foundations of Accounting
    • Industry Specific
      • Banks
      • Chemicals
      • Consumer
      • ESG
      • Insurance
      • Oil and Gas
      • Pharmaceuticals
      • Project Finance
      • Real Estate
      • Renewable Energy
      • Technology
      • Telecoms
    • Introductory Courses
    • Investment Banking
      • Accounting
      • Financial Modeling
      • M&A and Divestitures
      • Private Debt
      • Private Equity
      • Valuation
      • Venture Capital
    • Markets
      • Economics
      • Equity Markets and Derivatives
      • Fixed Income and Derivatives
      • Introduction to Markets
      • Options and Structured Products
      • Other Capital Markets
      • Securities Services
    • Microsoft Office
      • Excel
      • PowerPoint
      • Word & Outlook
    • Professional Skills
      • Career Development
      • Expert Interviews
      • Interview Skills
    • Risk Management
    • Transaction Banking
    • Felix Live
  • Pathways
    • Investment Banking
    • Asset Management
    • Equity Research
    • Sales and Trading
    • Commercial Banking
    • Engineering
    • Operations
    • Private Equity
    • Credit Analysis
    • Restructuring
    • Venture Capital
    • CFA Institute
  • Certified Courses
Felix
  • Data
    • Company Analytics
    • My Filing Annotations
    • Market & Industry Data
    • United States
    • Relative Valuation
    • Discount Rate
    • Building Forecasts
    • Capital Structure Analysis
    • Europe
    • Relative Valuation
    • Discount Rate
    • Building Forecasts
    • Capital Structure Analysis
  • Models
  • Account
    • Edit my profile
    • My List
    • Restart Homepage Tour
    • Restart Company Analytics Tour
    • Restart Filings Tour
  • Log in
  • Ask An Instructor
    • Email Our Experts
    • Felix User Guide
    • Contact Support

Distressed Debt Restructuring

Distressed Debt uses a real-world case company to discuss the options for dealing with a company on the brink of bankruptcy. With this playlist explore risk assessment, debt capacity, liquidity analysis, and the process of restructuring debt and valuing a struggling company in Credit Analysis. Looking at various exit scenarios and assessing how to minimize losses to the creditors.

Unlock Your Certificate   
 
0% Complete

11 Lessons (57m)

Show lesson playlist
  • Description & Objectives

  • 1. Introduction Summary

    12:20
  • 2. Case in Point Walk Through

    02:29
  • 3. Debt Capacity Exercise

    05:09
  • 4. Comparables Exercise

    04:32
  • 5. Liquidation Value Exercise

    03:17
  • 6. Debt Restructuring Exercise

    06:41
  • 7. Liquidation Analysis

    03:03
  • 8. Debrief Part 1

    03:19
  • 9. Debrief Part 2

    04:39
  • 10. Debrief Part 3

    03:51
  • 11. Debrief Part 4

    08:12

Prev: Debt Capacity

Liquidation Analysis

  • Notes
  • Questions
  • Transcript
  • 03:03

Applying expected proceeds from assets sales or liquidation to pay off creditors.

Downloads

Case-study-Distressed-Debt-Restructuring-Empty_4Case-study-Distressed-Debt-Restructuring-Full_4

Glossary

credit distressed debt financial risk Leveraged Finance liquidity loan workouts problem loans
Back to top
Financial Edge Training

© Financial Edge Training 2025

Topics
Introduction to Finance Accounting Financial Modeling Valuation M&A and Divestitures Private Equity
Venture Capital Project Finance Credit Analysis Transaction Banking Restructuring Capital Markets
Asset Management Risk Management Economics Data Science and System
Request New Content
System Account User Guide Privacy Policy Terms & Conditions Log in
Transcript

Question nine is a liquidation analysis. We're going to look at the liquidation proceeds that we recovered in the exercise on liquidation value, and we're going to see how they would be applied to the outstanding debt held by the creditors. So if we take a look down at the outstanding debt, what we'll see is that there are four different tranches of debt. The bottom two, the subordinated debt and the second-lien priority notes, these are both hard coded as zero and the reason why they're hard coded as zero is because they have second claims on the assets. We're dealing with collateral now. So the collateral has been laid out in the following way. The first two tranches, the revolving credit facility and the senior first lien have the first-lien claims on the assets. They have the senior claim on the assets, the collateral. The second priority notes are a second-lien claim. And the subordinated debt have essentially no claim on the assets. They're unsecured. So in that sense, we can pretty much guarantee that they're not gonna get anything here, and that's just simply by looking at the proceeds of the 859.8. So in terms of how we will apportion these proceeds to the outstanding first-lien facilities, we don't know exactly the terms of these two different tranches of debt. Occasionally, the revolver can be termed super senior, meaning it has a first claim on the assets. However, we're going to assume in this case since we don't know that specifically that the revolving credit facility and the senior first-lien are pari-passu, meaning that they have equal claim on these assets. They most likely will have either what we call split collateral, meaning that each will have a claim on a different group of assets. The revolver will be linked perhaps to the working capital and the first-lien claims will be linked to intangibles and perhaps any other long-term assets. It's also possible that they have shared collateral. So again, because we don't know this, we're simply going to apportion the liquidation proceeds according to the pro-rata share of the outstanding debt. So we're gonna take that 859.8 and multiply it by the revolving credit facility as a percentage of the total first-lien debt. And we'll do the same thing for the senior first-lien debt. We'll take the liquidation proceeds and multiply it by the senior first-lien claims outside of the revolving credit facility over its share of the total first-lien debt. And that should total the 859.8 as it does. Then we wanna take the recovery amount and divide it by the original amount of the holding to determine what percentage of the original debt they were able to recover. And that should be the same in this case for both at 40.3. If we copy this formula down, we simply prove that the second-lien claims, the subordinated unsecured claims and the equity get 0% on their invested capital.

Content Requests and Questions

You are trying to access premium learning content.

Discover our full catalogue and purchase a course Access all courses with our premium plans or log in to your account
Help

You need an account to contact support.

Create a free account or log in to an existing one

Sorry, you don't have access to that yet!

You are trying to access premium learning content.

Discover our full catalogue and purchase a course Access all courses with our premium plans or log in to your account

You have reached the limit of annotations (10) under our premium subscription. Upgrade to unlock unlimited annotations.

Find out more about our premium plan

You are trying to access content that requires a free account. Sign up or login in seconds!

Create a free account or log in to an existing one

You are trying to access content that requires a premium plan.

Find out more about our premium plan or log in to your account

Only US listed companies are available under our Free and Boost plans. Upgrade to Pro to access over 7,000 global companies across the US, UK, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Hong Kong and more.

Find out more about our premium plan or log in to your account

A pro account is required for the Excel Add In

Find out more about our premium plan

Congratulations on completing

This field is hidden when viewing the form
Name(Required)
This field is hidden when viewing the form
Rate this course out of 5, where 5 is excellent and 1 is terrible.
Were the stated learning objectives met?(Required)
Were the stated prerequisite requirements appropriate and sufficient?(Required)
Were the program materials, including the qualified assessment, relevant and did they contribute to the achievement of the learning objectives?(Required)
Was the time allotted to the learning activity appropriate?(Required)
Are you happy for us to use your feedback and details in future marketing?(Required)

Thank you for already submitting feedback for this course.

CPE

What is CPE?

CPE stands for Continuing Professional Education, by completing learning activities you earn CPE credits to retain your professional credentials. CPE is required for Certified Public Accountants (CPAs). Financial Edge Training is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors.

What are CPE credits?

For self study programs, 1 CPE credit is awarded for every 50 minutes of elearning content, this includes videos, workouts, tryouts, and exams.

CPE Exams

You must complete the CPE exam within 1 year of accessing a related playlist or course to earn CPE credits. To see how long you have left to complete a CPE exam, hover over the locked CPE credits button.

What if I'm not collecting CPE credits?

CPE exams do not count towards your FE certification. You do not need to complete the CPE exam if you are not collecting CPE credits, but you might find it useful for your own revision.


Further Help
  • Felix How to Guide walks you through the key functions and tools of the learning platform.
  • Playlists & Tryouts: Playlists are a collection of videos that teach you a specific skill and are tested with a tryout at the end. A tryout is a quiz that tests your knowledge and understanding of what you have just learned.
  • Exam: If you are collecting CPE points you must pass the relevant CPE exam within 1 year to receive credits.
  • Glossary: A glossary can be found below each video and provides definitions and explanations for terms and concepts. They are organized alphabetically to make it easy for you to find the term you need.
  • Search function: Use the Felix search function on the homepage to find content related to what you want to learn. Find related video content, lessons, and questions people have asked on the topic.
  • Closed Captions & Transcript: Closed captions and transcripts are available on videos. The video transcript can be found next to the closed captions in the video player. The transcript feature allows you to read the transcript of the video and search for key terms within the transcript.
  • Questions: If you have questions about the course content, you will find a section called Ask a Question underneath each video where you can submit questions to our expert instructor team.