You got cute. You invested in the equity. Now you may be up sh*t’s creek.

With each passing day and each damaged structure, a growing administrative expense claim is squeezing any hope of equity value and potentially threatening the backstop commitments received back in…wait…carry the one…FRIKKEN SEPTEMBER. We’re old enough to remember reading this somewhere:

Interestingly, Abrams & Knighthead have conditioned their support on, among other things, two key components: (1) a “wildfire claims cap” of $17.9mm and (2) no “occurrence of one or more wildfires in the Debtors’ service territory after the Petition Date and prior to January 1, 2020 that is asserted by any person to arise out of the Debtors’ activities and that destroys or damages more than 500 Structures.” Will global warming blow up this deal? Note: the Thomas Fire ripped through Ventura and Santa Barbara counties in December 2017, wrecking 281k acres, 1063 structures, and killing 23 people. 

Oh right. That was us: we wrote that. We really wish that hadn’t aged so well.