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Debt Restructuring of a Wireless Services Company

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The Situation

With $30 million in annual sales, this company offers wireless services in the rural Heartland, utilizing the GSM format as an affiliate of the major international wireless service provider, T-Mobile.

The company was highly leveraged, with $50 million in debt, but was otherwise a well-managed and modestly profitable company in the mid-stages of turnaround, with its “second” management team in place, who had replaced the “spend and grow” team a few years earlier.

At issue was the lenders’ concern about the company’s ability to meet its highly aggressive growth plan in a weak telecommunications market and, hence, its ability to repay its loans given its modest EBITDA.

How We Advised

Our experts provided an assessment that helped the company reset its financial plan to ambitious yet achievable levels, installed our 13-week cash flow projection tool to manage tight liquidity, alleviated day-to-day lender pressure on management, and helped improve the financial control infrastructure.

  • Developed financial restructuring plan.
  • Initiated and negotiated a financial restructuring plan involving $4 million of new capital raised and the conversion of senior debt to sub debt and equity to right-size the balance sheet.
  • This restructuring provided the secured lender with a high probability of 100% recovery of its loan over a five to seven-year horizon.
  • The Company is performing in line with its more realistic growth and profit plan and is now properly capitalized for reasonable growth.

Key Contact

Dan F. Dooley, CTP 
Senior Managing Director 
Strategic Advisory Practice 
+1 603 660 8952 
[email protected] 

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