It depends on the cash requirements, but I doubt. It's a good liquidity source, but I'd think it would be required to meet current cash flow requirements. Cash flow and profits and two separate things, and IIRC Juve have a pretty poor current ratio (I'm can't believe I'm citing the #&#&# current ratio. My finance prof when I was in school told me it was useless). A lot of it is driven by instalment payments for players, which are current liabilities. We have less coming in from instalment payments, meaning we have to cover the cash shortfall. My guess is that was one of the reasons for the Exor loan.
Lines of credit are usually secured (meaning they have a direct claim on Juve's assets), and have strict language on use of proceeds, debt that can be subsequently incurred, etc. Often there are minimum payments where you have to pay off the principal quickly. Lines of credit for companies are usually very short term in nature, and are good for bridging gaps. If it was a "term loan" that would be slightly better. Despite term loans still being strict in terms of financial covenants, they are expected to have an average life of a few years. Fortunately, Juve's loan is Euribor + 2%. Euribor is -0.034% right now (Europe is **** right now...negative rates), so they'd be paying a little under 2%, which is VERY ATTRACTIVE.
If we wanted certainty that debt would be used freely, we'd probably want to tap the capital markets through an unsecured bond (sold to private investors instead of financial institutions). There you can get 10 year terms, with few strings attached. Exor's line of credit I'd imagine will be paid off within a year.
FYI I work in asset management in "High Yield Credit", (ie: pooling private investor money to lend money to companies that aren't the best quality, meaning you get a substantially increase in the coupon paid), so I've looked at many of these loan conditions, and I can tell you with my professional opinion that they are often very strict. The only companies that will get fairly lax conditions are those with "Investment Grade" ratings from Standard & Poor's, Moody's or Fitch. So unless you're IBM, Vodafone, or a similar company, terms are not the best from a flexibility perspective.
Funny detail: Telecom Italia was recent downgraded to high yield (synonyms "non-investment grade", "junk", "speculative grade").
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