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FOCUS

Borrowers should anticipate future
corporate reorganisations when
negotiating a credit agreement with

2. What matters from the lenders' perspective
From the lenders' perspective, a crucial element is the ratio of
the value of secured assets to the amount of the debts owed
to the lenders. This is reflected in the credit agreement by an
undertaking of the borrower to grant security over its future
material assets.
In connection with a corporate reorganisation, the lenders'
concern is that the transaction may reduce the aggregate
value of secured assets. In order to understand this concern
and provide assurance to the lenders in this respect, it is
necessary to grasp basic principles regarding the creation
and robustness of Luxembourg security interests over financial collaterals, i.e. security interests over equity and debt
interests in Luxembourg companies as well as Luxembourg
bank accounts2 . Luxembourg security interests over financial
collaterals create two types of rights for the lenders:

2 - Under Luxembourg law security interests over financial
collateral may either be a pledge or title security assignment. The latter is not favored by many lenders and
borrowers considering the adverse tax, accounting and regulatory complications that may be triggered by transferring
the legal title to equity interests or intercompany loans in a
business from the borrower and its affiliates to the lenders.
Therefore this section refers only to security interests created as pledge. Most of the contents of this note are relevant
for title security assignment as well though.

- The most important right, the right in rem, grants to the
lenders a right over the collateral irrespective of changes
of owners of the collateral. The right in rem enables the
lenders to take ownership or sell the collateral in case an
event of default occurs under the credit agreement.

Try to agree in the term sheet that
the implementation of a corporate
reorganisation will not require the
lenders' consent.

3 - Transfer by operation or law occurs as the result of

transfer of all or part of the estate of the original grantor
of the pledge in the context of a merger, de-merger or
dissolution without liquidation.

- JULY
N°98

-

Nicolas Ronzel is a corporate finance
lawyer. He practiced during close to ten
years in law firms. He is now in-house
lawyer at Alter Domus.

LE MAGAZINE DU TRESORIER / TREASURER MAGAZINE

NICOLAS RONZEL

/ AUG / SEP 2017

third-party lenders.

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COUVERTURE
SOMMAIRE
EDITORIAL
FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Luxembourg Tax News
INTERVIEW with Sue Dean - Manager Director, Head of EMEA Treasury Services, J.P Morgan
FOCUS
How to attract and then retain talented young people to careers as treasurers?
Selecting your bank could be a challenge
Planning corporate reorganisations in credit agreements
FORUM
Repo markets and corporate practice
Cyber attaques en chaîne
Investir dans un contexte de remontée des taux d'intérêt?
Results and analysis of the EY Survey
THE FINANCIAL RISK OBSERVATORY
NEWS
LIFE BEYOND NUMBERS
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