LBO & Paper LBO
Walk through the order of operations in an LBO debt schedule's cash waterfall.
Model answer
Start with cash flow available for debt service. First, pay cash interest on all tranches (plus commitment fees on the undrawn revolver). Second, make mandatory amortization payments (e.g., roughly…
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