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Short And Long Term-Debt
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2020
Debt Disclosure [Abstract]  
Short And Long-Term Debt SHORT AND LONG-TERM DEBT
Total indebtedness is as follows:
 March 31, 2020December 31, 2019
Senior Secured Credit Facility:
Revolving Credit Facility
$755  $190  
Term Loan B
1,043  1,045  
Term Loan A Facility:
Term Loan A
709  714  
5.25% Senior Notes548  548  
4.875% Senior Notes405  405  
9.375% Senior Notes543  543  
Total Short-Term & Long-Term Debt$4,003  $3,445  
Indebtedness Table
As of March 31, 2020, the Company’s borrowing arrangements were as follows:
Interest
Rate
Expiration
Date
Principal AmountUnamortized Discount and Debt Issuance CostsNet Amount
Senior Secured Credit Facility:
Revolving Credit Facility (1)(2)February 2023$755  $ *  $755  
Term Loan B(3)February 20251,056  13  1,043  
Term Loan A Facility:
Term Loan A(4)February 2023712   709  
Senior Notes5.25%December 2021550   548  
Senior Notes4.875%June 2023407   405  
Senior Notes9.375%April 2027550   543  
Total$4,030  $27  $4,003  
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* The debt issuance costs related to our Revolving Credit Facility are classified as a deferred financing asset within other assets.
(1)In response to the rapidly evolving COVID-19 pandemic, the Company borrowed an additional $400 million under the Revolving Credit Facility in March 2020 as a proactive measure intended to increase liquidity to support our operations and supplement available cash on hand. As of March 31, 2020, the $1,425 million Revolving Credit Facility had outstanding borrowings of $755 million, as well as $56 million of outstanding letters of credit. The Revolving Credit Facility expires in February 2023 but is classified on the balance sheet as current due to the revolving nature and terms and conditions of the facility. On May 5, 2020, the
Company had $815 million in outstanding borrowings under the Revolving Credit Facility and $57 million of outstanding letters of credit.
(2)Interest rates with respect to revolving loans under the Senior Secured Credit Facility at March 31, 2020 were based on, at the Company's option, (a) adjusted London Interbank Offering Rate ("LIBOR") plus an additional margin or (b) JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.'s prime rate ("ABR") plus an additional margin, in each case subject to adjustment based on the then current senior secured leverage ratio. Based on the previous quarter's senior secured leverage ratio, the LIBOR margin was 2.25% and the ABR margin was 1.25% for the three months ended March 31, 2020.
(3)The Term Loan B provides for quarterly amortization payments totaling 1% per annum of the original principal amount. The interest rate with respect to term loans under the Term Loan B is based on, at the Company’s option, (a) adjusted LIBOR plus 2.25% (with a LIBOR floor of 0.75%) or (b) ABR plus 1.25% (with an ABR floor of 1.75%).
(4)The Term Loan A provides for quarterly amortization payments, which commenced on June 30, 2018, totaling per annum 2.5%, 2.5%, 5.0%, 7.5% and 10.0% of the original principal amount of the Term Loan A, with the balance of the Term Loan A due at maturity on February 8, 2023. The interest rates with respect to the Term Loan A are based on, at the Company's option, (a) adjusted LIBOR plus an additional margin or (b) ABR plus an additional margin, in each case subject to adjustment based on the then current senior secured leverage ratio. Based on the previous quarter's senior secured leverage ratio, the LIBOR margin was 2.25% and the ABR margin was 1.25% for the three months ended March 31, 2020.
Maturities Table
As of March 31, 2020, the combined aggregate amount of maturities for long-term borrowings for the remainder of 2020 and each of the next four years is as follows:
YearAmount
Remaining 2020 (a)$791  
2021612  
202281  
2023981  
202411  
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(a)Remaining 2020 includes amortization payments totaling $28 million and $8 million for the Term Loan A and Term Loan B facilities, respectively, as well as $755 million of revolver borrowings under the Revolving Credit Facility which expires in February 2023 but is classified on the balance sheet as current due to the revolving nature and terms and conditions of the facility. The current portion of long-term debt of $803 million shown on the condensed consolidated balance sheet consists of four quarters of amortization payments totaling $37 million and $11 million for the Term Loan A and Term Loan B facilities, respectively, and $755 million of revolver borrowings under the Revolving Credit Facility.
Senior Secured Credit Agreement and Term Loan A Agreement
The Company’s Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of March 5, 2013, as amended, amended and restated, modified or supplemented from time to time (the “Senior Secured Credit Agreement”) governs the Company's senior secured credit facility (the “Senior Secured Credit Facility”, which includes the “Revolving Credit Facility” and the “Term Loan B”) and the Term Loan A Agreement dated as of October 23, 2015, as amended from time to time (the “Term Loan A Agreement”) governs the senior secured term loan A credit facility (the “Term Loan A Facility”).
Senior Secured Credit Facility
The Senior Secured Credit Facility includes:
(a)the Term Loan B issued in the original aggregate principal amount of $1,080 million with a maturity date of February 2025. The Term Loan B has quarterly amortization payments totaling 1% per annum of the initial aggregate principal amount. The interest rate with respect to term loans under the Term Loan B is based on, at Realogy Group's option, adjusted LIBOR plus 2.25% (with a LIBOR floor of 0.75%) or ABR plus 1.25% (with an ABR floor of 1.75%); and
(b)a $1,425 million Revolving Credit Facility with a maturity date of February 2023, which includes a $125 million letter of credit subfacility. The interest rate with respect to revolving loans under the Revolving Credit Facility is
based on, at Realogy Group's option, adjusted LIBOR or ABR plus an additional margin subject to the following adjustments based on the Company’s then current senior secured leverage ratio:
Senior Secured Leverage RatioApplicable LIBOR MarginApplicable ABR Margin
Greater than 3.50 to 1.002.50%1.50%
Less than or equal to 3.50 to 1.00 but greater than or equal to 2.50 to 1.00
2.25%1.25%
Less than 2.50 to 1.00 but greater than or equal to 2.00 to 1.00
2.00%1.00%
Less than 2.00 to 1.001.75%0.75%
The Senior Secured Credit Agreement permits the Company to obtain up to $500 million of additional credit facilities on a combined basis with the Term Loan A Agreement (less any amounts previously incurred under this provision) from lenders reasonably satisfactory to the administrative agent and us, without the consent of the existing lenders under the new senior secured credit facility, plus an unlimited amount if Realogy Group's senior secured leverage ratio is less than 3.50 to 1.00 on a pro forma basis. Subject to certain restrictions, the Senior Secured Credit Agreement also permits the Company to issue senior secured or unsecured notes in lieu of any incremental facility.
The obligations under the Senior Secured Credit Agreement are secured to the extent legally permissible by substantially all of the assets of Realogy Group, Realogy Intermediate and all of their domestic subsidiaries, other than certain excluded subsidiaries.
Realogy Group’s Senior Secured Credit Agreement contains financial, affirmative and negative covenants and requires Realogy Group to maintain (so long as the Revolving Credit Facility is outstanding) a senior secured leverage ratio, not to exceed 4.75 to 1.00. The leverage ratio is tested quarterly regardless of the amount of borrowings outstanding and letters of credit issued under the Revolving Credit Facility at the testing date. Total senior secured net debt does not include unsecured indebtedness, including the Unsecured Notes. At March 31, 2020, Realogy Group was in compliance with the senior secured leverage ratio covenant.
In order to comply with the senior secured leverage ratio for the four-quarter periods ending June 30, September 30 and December 31, 2020 and March 31, 2021 (or to avoid an event of default thereof), the Company will need to achieve a certain amount of trailing four quarters EBITDA calculated on a Pro Forma Basis and/or reduced levels of total senior secured first lien net debt. The factors that will impact the foregoing include: (a) slowing decreases, stabilization or increases in sales volume and/or the price of existing homesales, (b) continuing to effect cost savings and business optimization initiatives, (c) increasing new franchise sales, independent sales agent recruitment and retention, or (d) a combination thereof. These factors may be insufficient to overcome macroeconomic conditions affecting the Company and the duration and severity of the COVID-19 crisis is expected to directly impact all of these factors. In addition, if the Company deems it advisable, it could seek to obtain additional junior lien or unsecured debt or equity financing from third party sources.
The Company believes that it will continue to be in compliance with, or be able to avoid an event of default under, the senior secured leverage ratio and meet its cash flow needs during the next twelve months based upon our current financial modeling, which incorporates factors (a) through (d) above and takes into account the level of open homesale contracts and closed homesale transaction activity the Company has observed since mid-March, our assumptions regarding the impact of the COVID-19 crisis and related economic downturn (which are subject to significant ongoing uncertainties), industry homesale transaction volume forecasts from multiple sources, and certain cost-savings actions, including those taken to date.
If the Company was unable to maintain compliance with the senior secured leverage ratio and fails to remedy a default through an equity cure permitted thereunder, there would be an “event of default” under the Revolving Credit Facility and Term Loan A Facility, which may be waived by the lenders holding the majority of commitments under the Revolving Credit Facility or the lenders holding the majority of loans under the Term Loan A Facility, as applicable. Other events of default under the Revolving Credit Facility and Term Loan A Facility include, without limitation, nonpayment, material misrepresentations, insolvency, bankruptcy, certain judgments, change of control and cross-events of default on material indebtedness.
If an event of default occurs under the Revolving Credit Facility and Term Loan A Facility and the Company failed to obtain a waiver from the applicable lenders, our financial condition, results of operations and business would be materially adversely affected.
Term Loan A Facility
The Term Loan A of $750 million due February 2023 provides for quarterly amortization payments totaling per annum 2.5%, 2.5%, 5.0%, 7.5% and 10.0% of the original principal amount of the Term Loan A, which commenced on June 30, 2018 and continue through February 8, 2023. The interest rates with respect to the Term Loan A are based on, at our option, adjusted LIBOR or ABR plus an additional margin subject to the following adjustments based on the Company’s then current senior secured leverage ratio:
Senior Secured Leverage RatioApplicable LIBOR MarginApplicable ABR Margin
Greater than 3.50 to 1.002.50%1.50%
Less than or equal to 3.50 to 1.00 but greater than or equal to 2.50 to 1.00
2.25%1.25%
Less than 2.50 to 1.00 but greater than or equal to 2.00 to 1.00
2.00%1.00%
Less than 2.00 to 1.00 1.75%0.75%
Consistent with the Senior Secured Credit Agreement, the Term Loan A Agreement permits the Company to obtain up to $500 million of additional credit facilities on a combined basis with the Senior Secured Credit Agreement (less any amounts previously incurred under this provision) from lenders reasonably satisfactory to the administrative agent and the Company, without the consent of the existing lenders under the Term Loan A, plus an unlimited amount if the Company's senior secured leverage ratio is less than 3.50 to 1.00 on a pro forma basis. Subject to certain restrictions, the Term Loan A Facility also permits the Company to issue senior secured or unsecured notes in lieu of any incremental facility. The Term Loan A Agreement contains negative covenants consistent with those included in the Senior Secured Credit Agreement and also requires compliance with the senior secured leverage ratio.
Unsecured Notes
The 5.25% Senior Notes, 4.875% Senior Notes and the 9.375% Senior Notes (collectively the "Unsecured Notes") are unsecured senior obligations of Realogy Group that mature on December 1, 2021, June 1, 2023 and April 1, 2027, respectively. Interest on the Unsecured Notes is payable each year semiannually on June 1 and December 1 for both the 5.25% Senior Notes and 4.875% Senior Notes, and on April 1 and October 1 for the 9.375% Senior Notes.
The Unsecured Notes are guaranteed on an unsecured senior basis by each domestic subsidiary of Realogy Group that is a guarantor under the Senior Secured Credit Facility and Realogy Group's outstanding debt securities and are guaranteed by Realogy Holdings on an unsecured senior subordinated basis.
The indentures governing the Unsecured Notes contain various negative covenants that limit Realogy Group's and its restricted subsidiaries’ ability to take certain actions, which covenants are subject to a number of important exceptions and qualifications. These covenants include limitations on Realogy Group's and its restricted subsidiaries’ ability to (a) incur or guarantee additional indebtedness, or issue disqualified stock or preferred stock, (b) pay dividends or make distributions to their stockholders, (c) repurchase or redeem capital stock, (d) make investments or acquisitions, (e) incur restrictions on the ability of certain of their subsidiaries to pay dividends or to make other payments to Realogy Group, (f) enter into transactions with affiliates, (g) create liens, (h) merge or consolidate with other companies or transfer all or substantially all of their assets, (i) transfer or sell assets, including capital stock of subsidiaries and (j) prepay, redeem or repurchase debt that is subordinated in right of payment to the Unsecured Notes.
The covenants in the indenture governing the 9.375% Senior Notes are substantially similar to the covenants in the indentures governing the other Unsecured Notes, with certain exceptions, including several changes relating to Realogy Group’s ability to make restricted payments, and, in particular, its ability to repurchase shares and pay dividends. Specifically, (a) the cumulative credit basket for restricted payments (i) was reset to zero and builds from January 1, 2019, (ii) builds at 25% of Consolidated Net Income (as defined in the indenture governing the 9.375% Senior Notes) when the consolidated leverage ratio (as defined below) is equal to or greater than 4.0 to 1.0 (and 50% of Consolidated Net Income when it is less than 4.0 to 1.0) and, consistent with the indentures governing the other Unsecured Notes, is reduced by 100% of the deficit when Consolidated Net Income is a deficit and (iii) may not be used when the consolidated leverage ratio is equal to or greater than 4.0 to 1.0; (b) the $100 million general restricted payment basket may be used only for Restricted Investments (as defined in the indenture governing the 9.375% Senior Notes); (c) the indenture governing the 9.375% Senior Notes requires the consolidated leverage ratio to be less than 3.0 to 1.0 to use the unlimited general restricted payment basket (which payments will reduce the cumulative credit basket, but not below zero); and (d) the indenture governing the 9.375% Senior Notes contains a new restricted payment basket that may be used for up to $45 million of dividends per calendar year.
The consolidated leverage ratio is measured by dividing Realogy Group's total net debt by the trailing four quarters EBITDA. EBITDA, as defined in the indenture governing the 9.375% Senior Notes, is substantially similar to EBITDA calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as those terms are defined in the Senior Secured Credit Agreement. Net debt under the indenture is Realogy Group's total indebtedness less (i) its cash and cash equivalents in excess of restricted cash and (ii) a $200 million seasonality adjustment permitted when measuring the ratio on a date during the period of March 1 to May 31.
Loss on the Early Extinguishment of Debt
As a result of the refinancing transaction in February 2019, the Company recorded a loss on the early extinguishment of debt of $5 million during the three months ended March 31, 2019.