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Equity cure meaning

What does Equity cure mean?
An equity cure is a contractual mechanism in leveraged finance and LMA‑style loan agreements allowing the sponsor or shareholders to remedy a breach of a financial maintenance covenant by injecting new shareholder funds (typically equity or deeply subordinated shareholder loans) within a defined cure period, so the covenant default is treated as cured and lenders cannot accelerate or enforce. It is a market term, not defined by statute or case law, and its usage is broadly consistent across England & Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland. Key features are negotiated and commonly include: limits on the size and frequency of cures (often per quarter and over rolling periods); a prohibition on “over‑cures”; unavailability for payment or other non‑financial events of default; and timing tied to delivery of the compliance certificate. Cure proceeds are usually applied to prepay senior debt and/or deemed to increase EBITDA for the relevant test period solely for financial covenant calculations (sometimes called an EBITDA cure), without increasing capacity under other baskets. Practical points include whether a cure can create headroom for future periods, whether cash must be retained or prepaid, interaction with leverage and interest cover ratios, and any restrictions on using cures in consecutive periods.
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