由于X糟糕的财务表现,马斯克目前在与银行的谈判中略占上风。不过据《财富》获悉,有知情人士透露,在7家资助马斯克收购推特的银行中,有3家已经联合了起来,试图避免此次交易有可能带来的混乱。
据该消息人士称,自从马斯克2022年10月接手X以来,X的财务状况每况愈下,已经到了令人震惊的地步。债权人也无法按计划将债务卖给给投资者,因此差额部分只能卡在X的资产负债表上。目前他们唯一的办法,就是接受对冲基金和其他一些潜在买家的折价收购。该消息人士还告诉《财富》,替X融资近七成的三大投行(摩根士丹利、巴克莱银行和美国银行)已同意签署一份“抛售函”,该文件的到期日是明年的1月15日。虽然三大投行都拒绝发表评论,而且具体安排细节也不得而知,但以以往经验来看,“抛售函”通常会要求,如果一家银行收到贷款要约,如除非其他联署成员获得同等权利,否则该行不能擅自接受要约。
因此,这种结构可以防止债权人被人“各个击破”,以免挑动三大银行的内部分裂。
《财富》的报道还显示,据消息人士爆料,由于X提供的财务信息严重不足,这三家银行对此都非常不满。不过X的新任CEO琳达·亚卡里诺正在物色一位新的财务总监,以便让公司的财务报表变得好看一些。但从目前来看,由于数据匮乏,这几家银行还无法向潜在买家提供一揽子的解决方案。
在最近的一篇报道中,笔者曾猜测,虽然债务问题严重困扰了X的发展,但是马斯克本人是有能力吃下X的一大笔债务的,他也完全有能力让这几家银行大笔一挥,直接让X的部分贷款归零。此举将有助于巩固X的地位,并让他们安全地打包剩下的债务。
我们不知道马斯克下一步将采取哪些行动。我们只知道,缺乏信息将使马斯克的债权人很难将这部分债务转卖给其他人。(财富中文网)
译者:朴成奎
一度支持马斯克的几家银行,现在已经站在了他的对立面。
由于X糟糕的财务表现,马斯克目前在与银行的谈判中略占上风。不过据《财富》获悉,有知情人士透露,在7家资助马斯克收购推特的银行中,有3家已经联合了起来,试图避免此次交易有可能带来的混乱。
据该消息人士称,自从马斯克2022年10月接手X以来,X的财务状况每况愈下,已经到了令人震惊的地步。债权人也无法按计划将债务卖给给投资者,因此差额部分只能卡在X的资产负债表上。目前他们唯一的办法,就是接受对冲基金和其他一些潜在买家的折价收购。该消息人士还告诉《财富》,替X融资近七成的三大投行(摩根士丹利、巴克莱银行和美国银行)已同意签署一份“抛售函”,该文件的到期日是明年的1月15日。虽然三大投行都拒绝发表评论,而且具体安排细节也不得而知,但以以往经验来看,“抛售函”通常会要求,如果一家银行收到贷款要约,如除非其他联署成员获得同等权利,否则该行不能擅自接受要约。
因此,这种结构可以防止债权人被人“各个击破”,以免挑动三大银行的内部分裂。
《财富》的报道还显示,据消息人士爆料,由于X提供的财务信息严重不足,这三家银行对此都非常不满。不过X的新任CEO琳达·亚卡里诺正在物色一位新的财务总监,以便让公司的财务报表变得好看一些。但从目前来看,由于数据匮乏,这几家银行还无法向潜在买家提供一揽子的解决方案。
在最近的一篇报道中,笔者曾猜测,虽然债务问题严重困扰了X的发展,但是马斯克本人是有能力吃下X的一大笔债务的,他也完全有能力让这几家银行大笔一挥,直接让X的部分贷款归零。此举将有助于巩固X的地位,并让他们安全地打包剩下的债务。
我们不知道马斯克下一步将采取哪些行动。我们只知道,缺乏信息将使马斯克的债权人很难将这部分债务转卖给其他人。(财富中文网)
译者:朴成奎
Due to X’s terrible financial performance, Elon Musk now has an upper hand negotiating with the banks. But Fortune has learned that that three of the seven lenders that funded Musk’s deal to buy Twitter may have formed a group designed to protect themselves from the chaos that would be associated with a fire sale, according to a source familiar with the deal.
Because of the shocking deterioration in X’s finances since Musk took over in October of 2022, the lenders haven’t been able to sell the debt to investors as planned, and are stuck holding all of it on their balance sheets, this person explained. The only way they’ll unload the loans is by accepting deep discounts from such possible buyers as hedge funds and other customers for distressed assets. To fortify their position, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, and Bank of America, lenders that combined furnished almost 70% of the financing, have agreed to what’s known as a joint “sell-down letter” that expires on Jan. 15, the source told Fortune. Though all three banks declined to comment, and the exact details of the arrangement aren’t known, sell-down letters typically require that if one bank receives an offer for its loans, it can’t accept without giving the other members the right to the same deal on a pro rata basis.
That structure prevents the lenders from falling prey to a “divide and conquer” approach where shoppers set the banks against one another in an auction to the bottom.
Fortune‘s reporting also found that the banks are extremely frustrated by the poor flow of financial information supplied by X. The banks are encouraged that new CEO Linda Yaccarino is looking for a CFO who will hopefully give them a much better look at the books. But for now, the dearth of data prevents the lenders from presenting full a full package to potential purchasers, according to the source that spoke to Fortune.
In a recent story, this writer speculated that Elon Musk himself is in a powerful position to purchase a big chunk of the debt pile that’s haunting X at a sharp markdown, or securing a solution where the banks simply write off some of the loans, a move that would improve X’s standing, enabling them to safely syndicate the rest.
We don’t know Musk’s next move. We do know that the information drought makes it tough for his lenders to sell to anyone else.