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Course Calendar Course CalendarHigh Yield and Leverage Finance
A practical 2-day course presented by Rupesh Tailor.
This course begins with foundation work covering background on the high yield and leveraged finance market, the instruments and their key terms and conditions, leveraged buyout (LBO) structuring and a cash flow template that provides key insights on corporate debt service capacity.
The course then considers business, financial and instrument aspects of high yield credit analysis, recovery analysis and common drivers of corporate distress, and valuation. Real company examples and in-depth case studies cover a variety of high yield issuers across sectors and geographies.
These case studies illustrate various investment situations that arise in the high yield space – companies in structural decline, successful LBOs, unsuccessful LBOs, turnaround situations, project finance-like situations and fallen angels.
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This course is also available in New York Time Zone and Singapore Time Zone
- High yield credit analysts, Equity analysts
- High yield asset managers
- Hedge fund managers
- Distressed debt investors
- Private equity investors
- Loan portfolio managers
- Mergers and acquisitions bankers
- Debt capital markets/leveraged finance bankers
- CLO managers, Strategy consultants
- Business turnaround/restructuring accountants/corporate finance professionals
- Basic understanding of financial statements
- Basic familiarity with Excel
Rupesh Tailor is a banking sector specialist with over fourteen years’ experience, having worked for sell-side and buy-side financial institutions including Goldman Sachs, Barclays Capital, Merrill Lynch, Auriga Investors and Morgan Stanley. He specialized in the European bank sector as well as the analysis of high yield and leveraged finance investments. His responsibilities included analysis, trading and portfolio management of credit and equity products.
Rupesh has consulted for two of Europe’s Global Systemically Important Banks (GSIBs) regarding their stress test modelling - as part of the 2014 European Central Bank/European Banking Authority stress test of euro area banks - and has also developed stress test models for a variety of other banks’ ICAAP and ILAAP needs. His proprietary stress-testing models are widely recognized as having accurately predicted the failures of various US, Irish, Spanish and Icelandic banks; as well as being highly successful at identifying businesses in structural decline at an early stage.
He delivers courses globally in Asset-Liability Management, Bank Stress-Testing, Basel III, High Yield & Leveraged Finance, Distressed Debt, and Fixed Income Attribution to financial institutions and central banks. He is also a sought-after speaker and chairperson at leading industry events.
Rupesh received a MA in Economics from Cambridge University and achieved First Class Honours.
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Foundations
- High yield and leveraged finance market background – size, history, participants, historic returns and default rates, composition and credit rating agencies
- Instruments and their key terms and conditions – high yield bonds and leveraged loans, bank debt (revolvers, working capital facilities, bridge finance and capital expenditure facilities) and PIKs; credit default swaps; corporate structure and capital structure; covenants; security packages and enforcement rights; guarantors; and call schedules
- Leveraged buyouts (LBOs) – overview of deal structuring
- Cash flow template to provide key insights on debt service capacity
Example: Europcar (car rental company)
Workshop: Evaluating key terms and conditions of New Look Retail Group Limited’s (UK clothing retailer) bonds; preparing and interpreting cash flow template for New Look
High Yield and Leveraged Finance Analysis and Investing
- Delineation of credit analysis process – business assessment, financial assessment, instrument assessment
- Business assessment – products, competition, customers, company
- Financial assessment – financial statement analysis, forward-looking financial modelling, key credit metrics, covenant compliance testing, liquidity analysis and debt service capacity.
- Instrument assessment – covenant, seniority, security and guarantor protection
- Stress-testing – what does it take to “break” the company? What are the key ways in which companies get into distress? What are recovery prospects?
- Valuation – identifying comparables for relative valuation; absolute valuation
Example: Ono (Spanish cable operator)
Workshop: Are New Look’s senior unsecured bonds an attractive investment?
Case Studies
Case Study 1 – Identifying and analysing companies in structural decline
Example: Norske Skogindustrier ASA (Norwegian newsprint and magazine paper producer)
Case Study 2 – The hallmarks of a successful LBO
Example: TDC (Danish telecoms operator)
Case Study 3 – The hallmarks of an unsuccessful LBO
Example: EMI (Global music publishing and recording company)
Workshop: Can Nokia (mobile phone device and telecoms equipment manufacturer) survive and are its bonds an attractive investment?
Case Study 4 – Identifying, analysing and investing in a successful turnaround situation
Example: Thomas Cook Plc (tour operator)
Case Study 5 – Analysing and investing in project finance-like high yield investment opportunities
Example: Fortescue Metals Group (start-up Australian iron ore producer)
Case Study 6 – Identifying, analysing and shorting fallen angels in the making
Example: DSG International Plc (consumer electronics retailer)
Workshop: Can Arcelor Mittal (steel producer) survive and are its bonds an attractive investment?
Course Details
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- Central London
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This course is also available in New York Time Zone and Singapore Time Zone

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