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“Lead lag relation of corporate debt restructuring and stock performance: A study of
infrastructure and construction sector of India. “
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Authors 1:
Shaikh Mo. Imran A.saeed
Assistant Professor
S.R. LUTHRA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT
Affiliated to Gujarat Technological University -AICTE
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Email: imran15381@gmail.com
Author 2:
Saiyed Farhin A (Author 2)
S.R. Luthra Institute of Management
Affiliated to Gujarat Technological University -AICTE
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Email: imran15381@gmail.com
“Lead lag relation of corporate debt restructuring and stock performance: A study of
infrastructure and construction sector of India. “
Abstract
The era of world recession of 2007 to 2012 was very bad for the developed market as well as
emerging market. The economy in United States of America, European economy and Indian
economy along with Asian economy faced very grave time to do the business. It took 5 years
for some economy to decide the track of the growth, still European market has not recovered.
Means talking to Indian economy. Approximately 4500 companied listed on BSE and 1900
companies on NSE. Finding these companies for doing business – a very difficult task,
especially when bank scam took place like King Fisher and Nirav Modi and so many others.
Companies find very difficult time to do business specially infrastructure and construction
companies which requires heavy capital. The post-restructuring performance of the firms has
been compared with their pre restructuring performance and with their “T “test. The
performance has been measured with the help of operating margin (EBDITA as a percentage
of total income) and interest coverage ratio. The findings of this study reveal that sample
firms were not able to improve their performance even up to five years after debt
restructuring and they were performing significantly below their industry peers.
Key words: corporate debt restructuring, EBIT, stock price Under Value, Over valued
Track III: Innovative finance strategies.
I. Introduction
After the World War 1 World War 2, economies around the world faces dire situation. It was
very difficult to do the business and survive in the market. Compare to a time before 70
years. Last ten years of the world economy are more difficult compare to world war time. As
compliance become stronger, company faces more problem to do the business. In this
prevailing economic climate, as companies look for ways to access cash, one method to
relieve pressure and free up additional cash flow is to restructure the debt of your
organization. This gives your company the flexibility it needs to keep operating, while
allowing time to fix any underlying issues within the organization. For the lending institution,
it allows the debt to stay current, classifies it as performing and avoids potential reserves.
A restructuring of debt can also, at times, help avoid bankruptcy, which is typically a last
ditch effort to keep the company operating and possibly avoid debt repayment altogether.
While many creditors may not agree to this type of arrangement immediately, some will
come to understand that it may be beneficial for them to help ease the burden of the company
rather than hasten a potential downfall by remaining firm in a position of collection or
foreclosure.
In some cases, companies are able to get debt holders to write down the debt or write off a
portion of the debt. This is typically done with trade debt. Institutional debt write-downs
happen in rare occasions and usually occur when another party comes in to buy out the debt
at a deep discount. Most institutions will not write down or write off part of the debt with the
same debtor, although this can happen. It really depends upon the leverage a company might
have in the negotiations, the collateral position and the condition of the lending institution.
The core issues being faced by the management team will determine the type of restructuring
that may work. Short-term liquidity needs can often be addressed with a principle holiday, in
which a company is not required to make principle payments for a period of time (typically
three to six months and sometimes up to a year). Interest is still charged and due each
payment period, but by eliminating a regular principle payment, a significant amount of cash
can be freed up. For long-term needs, it may make sense to utilize lower interest rates and
longer amortization schedules and also take a portion of the principle and put it on the back
end with a balloon payment.
But before you reach out to your lenders for a debt restructuring plan, you should develop a
business plan to show lenders that you have a handle on the issue and are in a position to
move the company in a positive direction. This is not a hastily thrown together plan, but one
based upon strategies that reflect current conditions and how management might take
advantage of them. Most lenders will discount the revenue projections if they are
significantly different than industry performance, unless the company has some truly
disruptive technology or differentiator. What most lenders will want to see is a plan that has
cost reductions to reflect the current revenue picture along with some revenue growth, which
should be based upon new products, new customers and possibly even new markets.
What are the creditors’ and/or lenders’ objectives?
Creditors who often agree to negotiate the terms of the debt agreement focus on the following
objectives:
Support the objective of a struggling debtor company to financially recover
Enable strong debtors to carry on as before with their business operations
Agree to a feasible, equitable and fair debt repayment plan to creditors
Secure the collateral position of the note to support repayment
Look for a significant portion of revenues from operations to be set aside to support
part of the payment to creditors
Safeguard the money lent by financial institutions through additional collateral or in
lending additional funds that will elevate the financial position of the company
Understanding the lenders’ objectives will help you position your case to meet those
objectives while helping lenders meet their own.
Corporate debt restructuring should be completed one step at a time. The following are the
steps that need to be taken with the lender before a final agreement on a restructured debt
instrument can be signed.
Consultation between the lender and debtor—Business debt restructuring is essentially an
aggregate loan agreement, which accumulates a number of discussions and agreements. To
reach that point of an agreement, the lender will hold a series of sessions with the borrower.
During these meetings, the lender assesses the company’s overall financial situation and
evaluates management competency to be successful under a restructured business. It’s at this
point that all the company’s financial obligations are evaluated against the expected regular
cash flow. This is the period where the lender gains comfort that the debtor can repay the new
restructured loan and will be able to correct any underlying business issues.
Negotiation begins—once the assessment procedure is finished, the lender then negotiates a
settlement agreement for the new note or forbearance with the debtor and possibly with other
creditors and vendors of the debtor. All parties need to be accepting of the revised agreement
—even the other creditors of the business.
Some liquidation of assets may be required—in some cases, restructuring existing debt may
require a payment of money up front. Since you may be in a tight cash position, some assets
may have to be liquidated in order to meet the upfront payment. Though, this is not typical as
the lender will probably want as much collateral available as possible.
Restructuring begins—at this stage, the contract is signed and the agreement is enforced. The
borrower, and in this case the business, agrees to the new or revised loan amount and to other
details, including the monthly payment obligation, interest rate, collateral, personal
guarantees and term of payment. After everything is accounted for, the business is officially
under a debt restructuring program and is expected to make payments as stipulated.
The process may appear straightforward, but it can take several months to complete and take
an emotional toll on both parties. It’s important to pace the process, try to keep emotions out
of it and be prepared for some bumps along the way. Consider the support of a professional
consultant who has experience helping businesses through this process. A consultant can help
take emotions out of the equation, assist with preparation of the business plan and understand
the needs of the banks on the other side of the table.
CDR Standing Forum: This forum is a representative body of all banks and financial
institutions participating in the debt restructuring process. This forum includes different
financial institutions and scheduled banks and excludes regional rural banks, non-banking
financial companies and co-operative banks. One responsibility of this forum is to lay down
policies to be followed by the empowered group and the CDR cell and to ensure timely
implementation of the CDR package. A platform is given to both creditors and borrowers to
amicably settle their disputes. The standing forum can review decisions of the empowered
group and the CDR cell. The standing forum comprises of banks such as ICICI, SBI, IDBI
and the chairman of the Indian Banks Association. Most of the big financial institutions in
India that lend money to companies are permanent participating members of the standing
forum.
CDR Empowered Group: The CDR Empowered Group considers the preliminary report of all
cases of requests of restructuring, submitted to it by the CDR Cell. After the Empowered
Group decides that restructuring of the company is prima-facie feasible and the enterprise is
potentially viable in terms of the policies and guidelines evolved by the Standing Forum, the
detailed restructuring package is worked out by the CDR Cell in conjunction with the Lead
Institution, which is the institution which has the highest exposure in the concerned company.
The Empowered Group examines the viability of the restructuring package and later on gives
its opinion as to whether the package is feasible within 90 days or 180 days. If however, the
restructuring package is not granted then the creditors have the option of exiting the
arrangement, and seeking their own enforcement measures for recovery of their dues.
Section 230 of the Companies Act 2013 includes a new provision for companies proposing a
merger or arrangement, to disclose to the National Companies Law Tribunal in an affidavit, a
past or present scheme of debt restructuring and particulars thereof, which scheme must have
the consent of not less than 75 per cent of the secured creditors by value. The details to be
submitted to the Tribunal include a creditor’s responsibility statement; safeguards for the
protection of other secured and unsecured creditors; an auditor’s report that the fund
requirements of the company after restructuring shall conform to the liquidity test; a
statement where the company proposes to adopt the CDR guidelines; and a valuation report
of the company assets. It is against this backdrop that this paper aims to study and understand
the corporate debt restructuring by analysing some examples of CDR in India. The objectives
may be summarized as follows:
1. To study the CDR mechanism in India as per RBI guidelines.
2. To explore a few examples of CDR in India and study the factors leading to CDR.
3. To understand the effect of CDR through these examples.
Source : https://www.icsi.edu/portals/70/23112013S2.pdf
Literature reviews :
Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=302351
In a second group of papers, it is argued that the major problem associated with multiple
lending is due to bargaining problems among lenders rather than between lenders and a
common borrower. The common pool or collective action problem addresses the risk of
coordination failure. Although renegotiation is in the collective interest of all creditors,
individually they may …nd pre-emptive debt collection favorable. They will tend to
foreclose on their loans in fear of similar actions by other lenders although the …rm’s
prospects may in fact be sound. Underinvestment will be the consequence. Multiple self-
ful…lling equilibria arise, which resemble a bank run as modelled by Diamond and
Dybvig [1983]. Morris and Shin [1999] apply the idea of coordination risk to corporate
debt and its pricing. A number of papers including Brown [1989], Bebchuk and Chang
[1992], Schwartz [1997], and Longhofer and Peters [1999] discuss how the risk of
coordination failure can be overcome by the implementation of optimal bankruptcy
procedures.
Source:https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/
9a97/8667ed55d1b6622201dff51fc8729e4ab45c.pdf
HO: There is no significant difference in the ratios before and after CDR
Company name 2014 2015 Mean CDR 2016 2017 2018 Mean
SUZLON -34.7 362.71 164 2016 34.78 -326.95 -146
JPASSOCIATION 3.06 -7.02 -2 2016 -57.7 3.4 -27.54
GMR INFRA 2.28 -4.16 -0.94 2016 -56.52 -42.02 -49.27
JPPOWER 0.31 2.15 1.23 2016 -7.68 5.63 -1.01
ANSAL INFRA 0.82 1.32 1.02 2016 0.52 -2.32 -0.9
SREI Infrastructure 2.2 3.2 2.7 2016 3.35 4.16 3.76
CG POWER 15.6 18.28 16.95 2016 2.96 15.6 9.28
IVRCLINFRALTD -49.51 -59.31 -54.41 2016 -33.46 124.13 45.34
Operating profit ratio
Company name 2014 2015 Mean CDR 2016 2017 2018 Mean
SUZLON -11.21 -16.78 14 2016 24.18 16.75 27.46
JPASSOCIATION 26.39 20.9 23.65 2016 1.29 20.01 10.65
GMR INFRA 33.78 72.21 38 2016 61.96 31.49 46.72
JPPOWER 71.25 68.6 69.93 2016 37.31 40.21 38.76
ANSAL INFRA 8.2 7.7 7.95 2016 8.31 12.15 10.23
SREI Infrastructure 91.7 88.67 90.19 2016 71.4 88.7 80
CG POWER 10.04 9.39 9.715 2016 8.83 8.85 8.84
IVRCLINFRALTD 4.75 0.45 2.6 2016 -16.54 -31.22 23.9
Company name 2014 2015 Mean CDR 2016 2017 2018 Mean
SUZLON 3.13 -5.42 -1.145 2016 5.89 20.16 13.025
JPASSOCIATION 1.72 1.33 1.525 2016 2.42 0.54 1.48
GMR INFRA 0.55 0.42 0.485 2016 0.8 1.3 1.05
JPPOWER 2.77 2.92 2.845 2016 0.97 0.99 0.98
ANSAL INFRA 0.27 0.27 0.27 2016 0.24 0.17 0.205
SREI Infrastructure 4.84 5 4.92 2016 4.08 4.29 4.185
CG POWER 0.01 0.016 0.013 2016 0.29 0.38 0.335
IVRCLINFRALTD 2.45 3.78 3.115 2016 9.25 -3.88 2.685
Current ratio
Company name 2014 2015 Mean CDR 2016 2017 2018 Mean
SUZLON 0.71 1.09 0.9 2016 0.83 0.7 0.765
JPASSOCIATION 1.05 1.15 1.1 2016 0.63 0.86 0.745
GMR INFRA 0.76 0.87 0.815 2016 0.77 0.48 0.625
JPPOWER 0.33 0.26 0.295 2016 0.23 0.65 0.44
ANSAL INFRA 1.22 1.25 1.235 2016 1.29 1.23 1.26
SREI Infrastructure 0.7 0.6 0.65 2016 0.56 0.59 0.575
CG POWER 1.88 2.51 2.195 2016 2.31 1.86 2.085
IVRCLINFRALTD 0.7 0.92 0.81 2016 0.65 0.38 0.515
Company name 2014 2015 Mean CDR 2016 2017 2018 Mean
SUZLON 4.14 3.72 3.93 2016 4.06 3.97 4.015
JPASSOCIATION 4.68 1.23 2.955 2016 0.7 1.56 1.13
GMR INFRA 8.64 142.8 75.72 2016 17.95 29.03 23.49
JPPOWER 16.9 12.77 14.84 2016 11.9 20.06 15.98
ANSAL INFRA 0.37 0.33 0.35 2016 0.29 0.25 0.27
SREI Infrastructure 0.53 0 0.265 2016 0 0 0
CG POWER 13.4 14.96 14.195 2016 6.34 12.03 9.185
IVRCLINFRALTD 21.5 18.64 20.08 2016 20.4 21.2 20.8
The results were as follows:
Result P value
Return on equity / net worth 0.408
Operating profit ratio 0.777
Debt equity ratio 0.43
Current ratio 0.068
Inventory turnover ratio 0.304
It has been observed from the study. After applying T test. With comparison of 0.05
significance value. Considering 5 different ratio with corporate debt restructuring. Corporate
debt restructuring doesn’t have any effect on ratio of the company. The mean value was
considering before the corporate debt restructuring event and after corporate debt
restructuring mean value was considering. In all parameter define of above ratio, not a single
ratio was affected corporate debt restructuring.
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