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Absolute Priority: Potential Covenant Modifications to European HYB Docs

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Benoit Lavigne, Matthew Dunlap, and John Burge appeared on the Debtwire podcast Absolute Priority to discuss potential covenant changes to European high yield debt documents in response to the coronavirus pandemic.<a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-510253489/potential-cov-changes-eur-hyb-docs" target="_blank">Listen to the podcast</a>.

Absolute Priority: Potential Covenant Modifications to European HYB Docs

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Matthew Dunlap is a finance partner based in the London office.Matthew’s practice focuses on complex cross-border transactions, including investment-grade, crossover, high-yield, and ESG debt offerings, acquisition financings, and liability management exercises. Matthew has significant experience advising both issuers and investment banks, primarily representing private equity and corporate clients.Matthew is the firm’s ESG lead for Europe and a member of its global ESG Steering Committee. Before joining Morrison Foerster, he practiced in Houston and London at another international U.S. firm.

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John Burge is a partner based in the London office.Mr. Burge has extensive experience as a finance lawyer advising both lenders and borrowers on their investment grade, leverage and restructuring transactions. His role involves assisting lenders and borrowers with transactions and negotiating and settling commitment, loan and associated documentation both in London and overseas.He has counseled international banks in relation to transactional banking and internal risk management functions. Alongside his leverage and investment grade practice he frequently advises banks on new lending products, loans with unique features, loans of a high risk nature and transactions which are the subject of litigation.Mr. Burge has advised banks on their key internal risk management exercises, including the finance aspects of litigation and restructuring loan portfolios.Prior to joining Morrison & Foerster, Mr. Burge worked for a Magic Circle firm for 16 years. During that time, he was seconded to a major investment bank on three separate occasions