6/22/17 Recap: No one saw this dumpster fire coming. That's sarcasm, ya'll. Riddled with debt, a burdensome $267mm pension liability, a pattern of declining earnings (see below), and a 1950s sensibility that nobody is interested in, this penny stock ($SCRC) was bound to end up in bankruptcy court. Negative net cash flows have ranged from $30-$100mm per month for the past five months. Hence the "dumpster fire" comment: that's some serious cash burn. Yiiiikes. So, what, in addition to filing for bankruptcy, do you do when your company has sh*t the bed so badly that its brand equity is strongest as a punchline? You step up the marketing game by shunning the term "restructuring" and deploying the flashier descriptor "reinvention" instead. Or toss some pixie dust in the air and come up with "Sears 2.0". Because nobody will know the wiser. Anyway, Sears Holdings ($SHLD)notably holds 12% of SRSC so presumably that 12% is now worth 0% but we wouldn't put it past Eddie Lampert to pull a bunny out of a hat. Somehow. But what do we know: we've never even stepped foot in Ontario. Ps. SHLD traded up nearly 3% on the news. Pss. The Company intends to close at least 59 of 200 locations and layoff 2900 people - all pursuant to a $450mm cumulative DIP credit facility.
Jurisdiction: Ontario Superior Court of Justice
Capital Structure: $300mm '19 senior secured debt (Wells Fargo)($170mm funded inc. LOCs), $94mm TL (funded)(GACP Finance Co. LLP, KKR Capital Markets LLC, TPG Specialty Lending Inc.); major shareholders (ESL Investments Inc., Fairholme Capital Management Inc.)
Company Professionals:
Monitor: FTI Consulting Canada Inc. (Greg Watson, Paul Bishop, Jim Robinson, Steven Bissell, Linda Kelly, Kamran)
Monitor Legal: Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP (Orestes Pasparakis, Virginie Gauthier, Alan Merskey, Evan Cobb, Alexander Schmitt, Catherine Ma)
Company Legal: Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP (Marc Wasserman, Jeremy Dacks, Michael De Lellis, Tracy Sandler, Shawn Irving, Martino Calvaruso, Karin Sachar)
Financial Advisor: BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc.
Other Parties in Interest:
$300mm DIP ABL Agent: Wells Fargo Capital Finance Corporation Canada
Legal: Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP (Ryan Jacobs, Jane Dietrich, R. Shayne Kukulowicz, Tim Pinos, Lara Jackson, Ben Goodis)
10/30/16 Recap: New Hampshire-based publicly-traded designer, manufacturer, and distributer of sporting equipment (including Bauer Hockey and Easton Baseball) files for Chapter 11 and CCAA to effectuate an asset sale to Sagard Capital Partnes and Fairfax Financial for $575mm.
Jurisdiction: D. of Delaware
Capital Structure: $200mm ABL, $330mm TL, publicly-traded equity.
Company Professionals:
Legal: Paul Weiss (Kelley Kornish, Alice Eaton, Claudia Tobler, Christopher Hopkins, Diane Meyers, Moses Silverman, Kevin) & (local) Young Conaway (Pauline Morgan, Sean Greecher, Justin Rucki, Shane Reil, Kenneth Listwak, Andrew Magaziner) & (Canadian counsel) Stikeman Elliott (Kathryn Esaw, Frank Selke, Maria Konyukhova, Peter Howard)
Financial Advisor: Alvarez & Marsal (Brian Fox, Jay Herriman, Brian Corio, Michael Stewart, Greg Karpel)
Investment Banker: Centerview Partners (Mark Puntus, Ryan Kielty, David Zubricki, Mike Klain)
Claims Agent: Prime Clerk (*click on company name for docket)
Other Parties in Interest:
Canadian Monitor: E&Y (Brian Denega, Jean-Daniel Breton, Marin Daigneault)
Legal: Allen & Overy (Ken Coleman) & (local) Buchanan Ingersoll (Kathleen Murphy, Mary Caloway) & (Canadian counsel) Thornton Grant (Robert Thornton, D.J. Miller, Rachel Bengino)
ABL DIP Agent: Bank of America
Legal: Choate Hall & Steward (John Ventola, Douglas Gooding, Jonathan Marshall) & (local) Richards Layton & Finger LLP (Mark Collins, John Knight, Brent Haywood)
TL DIP Agent: 9938982 Canada & Sagard Capital Partners
Legal: Kirkland & Ellis LLP (Christopher Marcus, George Klidonas) & (local) Klehr Harrison (Dominic Pacitti)
Financial Advisor: Rothschild Inc. (Neil Augustine)
First Lien Lenders Steering Committee:
Legal: Weil (Matthew Barr, Gabriel Morgan, David Cohen) & (local) Morris Nichols (Robert Dehney, Gregory Werkheiser) & (Canadian counsel) Goodmans (Joe Latham, Brendan O'Neill, Ryan Baulke)
Financial Advisor: FTI Consulting (Daniel Hugo)
Prepetition TL Agent
Legal: Davis Polk
Fairfax Financial
Legal: Shearman & Sterling (Fred Sosnick, Stephen Blank)
Unsecured Creditors' Committee
Legal: Blank Rome LLP (Stanley Tarr, Josef Mintz, Andrew Eckstein, Michael Schaedle) & (Canadian counsel) Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP (Ryan Jacobs, Hillary Fender, Monique Sassi, Natalie Levine, Shayne Kukulowicz)
Financial Advisor: Province Inc. (Paul Huygens, Victor Delaglio, Michael Winters, Sanjuro Kietlinski, Ricky Ng, Jim Dong)
Ad Hoc Equity Committee (MatlinPatterson Global Advisors LLC, Scoggin Capital Management LLC)
Legal: Brown Rudnick LLP (Robert Stark, Stephen Levine, Bennett Silverberg, Andrew Carty, James Stoll) & (local) Montgomery McCracken (Natalie Ramsey, Mark Fink, Davis Wright) & (Canadian counsel) McMillan LLP (Andrew Kent, Jeffrey Levine, Caitlin Fell, Stephen Brown-Okruhlik)
Financial Advisor: Houlihan Lokey Capital Inc. (Adam Dunayer, Justin Zammit, Sam Stringer, Corbon Heizer)
10/19/16 Recap: Canadian midstream waste management services provider to the E&P sector files Chapter 15 to help effectuate a debt-for-equity conversion pursuant to a September CBCA filing.
