Distressed debt is debt of a borrower in or near default, trading at a price that reflects an expected loss rather than a spread over the risk-free rate. An exchange offer is a borrower’s offer to its creditors to swap their claims for new instruments, typically worth less, with lower face value, lower coupons or longer maturities, sometimes with cash.
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Example 26.2 (An exchange offer)
A borrower offers, per 100 of old bonds, 50 of new 15-year bonds paying 4% and 5 in cash for those who tender. At an exit yield of 9% the new bonds are worth 29.85 and the package 34.85: a face-value haircut of 50% but a present-value haircut of 65.2%. At an exit yield of 6% the package is worth 45.29, at 12% only 27.76 (Figure 26.1).