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Amid Bad Debt Deals, Loan Covenant Analyst Says This Deal Is The Worst Ever

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Mark Melin
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Jenny Warshafsky, a covenant analyst at Xtract research, sees terms for lenders getting worse and worse. But Warshafsky says a recent $250,000 deal put together in the software industry by Vista Equity Partners might be the worst yet. And she didn’t soft-pedal her legal issues in a June report titled “The Worst Debt Covenant Ever.”

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The report comes amid a trend of weakening loan covenants. Loan covenants are designed to protect lenders by limiting actions a corporation can take to increase risk in an investment. For example, they can limit how much additional...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.