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Subsequent Events
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2018
Subsequent Events [Abstract]  
Subsequent Events Disclosure
Subsequent Events
On January 16, 2019, the Parent Company and certain of its subsidiaries entered into forbearance agreements with (i) certain holders of greater than 75% of the aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Second Lien Notes, (ii) certain lenders of greater than 50% of the aggregate principal amount outstanding under the 2018 Credit Agreement and the administrative agent and collateral agent under the 2018 Credit Agreement and (iii) the requisite buyers and variable funding noteholders, as applicable, under certain warehouse facility agreements. Pursuant to the forbearance agreements, the parties noted above agreed to temporarily forbear from the exercise of any rights or remedies they may have in respect of the aforementioned anticipated events of default or other defaults or events of default arising out of or in connection therewith.
On February 8, 2019, the Parent Company and certain of its subsidiaries entered into additional forbearance agreements with (i) certain lenders holding greater than 50% of the sum of (a) the loans outstanding, (b) letter of credit exposure and (c) unused commitments under the 2018 Credit Agreement at such time and the administrative agent and collateral agent under the 2018 Credit Agreement, (ii) the requisite buyers and variable funding noteholders, as applicable, under certain warehouse facility agreements and (iii) the counterparty under a certain master securities forward transaction agreement.
On February 11, 2019, as contemplated by the DHCP RSA, the Debtors filed the DHCP Bankruptcy Petitions and the DHCP Chapter 11 Cases commenced thereby under the Bankruptcy Code in the Bankruptcy Court. Consistent with the DHCP RSA, on March 5, 2019, the Debtors filed the DHCP Plan with the Bankruptcy Court seeking to emerge from Chapter 11 on an expedited timeframe. The Debtors filed an amended DHCP Plan with the Bankruptcy Court on March 28, 2019. The Debtors are continuing to operate their businesses as debtors in possession under the jurisdiction of the Bankruptcy Court and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Bankruptcy Code. The Company intends to continue to operate its businesses during the pendency of the DHCP Chapter 11 Cases. To assure ordinary course operations, the Debtors have obtained approval from the Bankruptcy Court for a variety of first day motions seeking various relief, authorizing them to maintain their operations in the ordinary course.
Restructuring Support Agreement
On February 8, 2019, the Debtors entered into the DHCP RSA with the Consenting Term Lenders holding, as of February 11, 2019, more than 75% of the term loans outstanding under the 2018 Credit Agreement.
Pursuant to the DHCP RSA, the Consenting Term Lenders and the Debtors have agreed to the principal terms of a financial restructuring of the Company, which will be implemented through a prearranged plan of reorganization under the Bankruptcy Code and which provides for the restructuring of the Company's indebtedness through a recapitalization transaction that is expected to reduce gross corporate debt by over $800 million and provide the reorganized company with an appropriately sized working capital facility upon emergence from the DHCP Reorganization Transaction.
The DHCP RSA also provides for the continuation of the Company’s prepetition review of strategic alternatives, whereby, as a potential alternative to the implementation of a DHCP Reorganization Transaction, any and all bids for the Company or its assets will be evaluated as a precursor to confirmation of any Chapter 11 plan of reorganization.
The review of strategic alternatives provides a public and comprehensive forum in which the Debtors are seeking bids or proposals for three types of potential transactions, as described below. If a bid or proposal is received representing higher or better value than the DHCP Reorganization Transaction, it will either be incorporated into the DHCP Reorganization Transaction or pursued as an alternative to the DHCP Reorganization Transaction in consultation with the Consenting Term Lenders and subject to the DHCP RSA.
The three types of transactions for which bids are being solicited are:
a sale transaction meaning, a sale of substantially all of the Company’s assets, as provided in the DHCP RSA;
an asset sale transaction meaning, the sale of a portion of the Company’s assets other than a sale transaction consummated prior to DHCP Effective Date; provided such sale shall only be conducted with the consent of the Requisite Term Lenders; and
a master servicing transaction meaning, as part of the DHCP Reorganization Transaction to the extent the terms thereof are acceptable to the Requisite Term Lenders, entry by the Company into an agreement or agreements with an approved subservicer or subservicers whereby, following the DHCP Effective Date, all or substantially all of the Company’s mortgage servicing rights are subserviced by the new subservicer.
The DHCP RSA presently contemplates the following treatment for certain key classes of creditors under the DHCP Reorganization Transaction:
DHCP DIP Warehouse Facilities Claims - On the DHCP Effective Date, the holders of DHCP DIP Warehouse Facilities claims will be paid in full in cash;
Term Loan Claims - On the DHCP Effective Date, the holders of Term Loan Claims will receive their pro rata share of new term loans under an amended and restated credit facility agreement in the aggregate principal amount of $400 million, and 100% of the New Common Stock, which will be privately held;
Second Lien Notes Claims - On the DHCP Effective Date, the holders of the Second Lien Notes will not receive any distribution;
Go-Forward Trade Claims - On the DHCP Effective Date, trade creditors identified by the Company (with the consent of the Requisite Term Lenders) as being integral to and necessary for the ongoing operations of New Ditech) will receive a distribution in cash in an amount equaling a certain percentage of their claim, subject to an aggregate cap; and
Existing Equity Interests - On the DHCP Effective Date, holders of the Company’s existing preferred stock, common stock and warrants will have their claims extinguished.
If the Debtors proceed to confirmation of a sale transaction, the Debtors will distribute proceeds of such transaction in accordance with the priority scheme under the Bankruptcy Code.
Under the DHCP RSA, on the Election Date, the Electing Term Lenders may deliver an election notice to the Company stating that the Electing Term Lenders wish to consummate an elected transaction as follows: (i) the DHCP Reorganization Transaction, or (ii) master servicing transaction (as part of the DHCP Reorganization Transaction), or (iii) sale transaction, and, if applicable, (iv) in connection and together with an election of (i), (ii), or (iii), any asset sale transaction(s), provided that inclusion of any asset sale transaction(s) is not incompatible with successful consummation of the elected transaction in (i), (ii) or (iii). If the Debtors do not proceed with the elected transaction, the Consenting Term Lenders can terminate the DHCP RSA.
On February 11, 2019, as contemplated by the DHCP RSA, the Debtors filed the DHCP Bankruptcy Petitions and the DHCP Chapter 11 Cases commenced thereby under the Bankruptcy Code in the Bankruptcy Court. Consistent with the DHCP RSA, on March 5, 2019, the Debtors filed the DHCP Plan with the Bankruptcy Court seeking to emerge from Chapter 11 on an expedited timeframe. The Debtors filed an amended DHCP Plan with the Bankruptcy Court on March 28, 2019. The Debtors are continuing to operate their businesses as debtors in possession under the jurisdiction of the Bankruptcy Court and in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Bankruptcy Code. The Company intends to continue to operate its businesses during the pendency of the DHCP Chapter 11 Cases. To assure ordinary course operations, the Debtors have obtained approval from the Bankruptcy Court for a variety of first day motions seeking various relief, authorizing them to maintain their operations in the ordinary course.
The filing of the DHCP Bankruptcy Petitions described above triggers an event of default or an early amortization event under certain of the Company's debt instruments. The filing of the DHCP Bankruptcy Petitions also triggers the liquidation preference of the Company’s Mandatorily Convertible Preferred Stock. Certain of the Company's obligations, including the payment of interest under the Company's debt instruments, are stayed under the Bankruptcy Code during the pendency of the DHCP Chapter 11 Cases.
During the pendency of the DHCP Chapter 11 Cases, the Bankruptcy Court granted relief enabling the Company to conduct its business activities in the ordinary course, including, among other things and subject to the terms and conditions of such orders, authorizing the payment of employee wages and benefits, the payment of taxes and certain governmental fees and charges, continued operation of the cash management system in the ordinary course, and payment of the prepetition claims to certain of the Company's vendors. For goods and services provided following the DHCP Petition Date, the Company continues to pay vendors under normal terms.
DHCP DIP Warehouse Facilities
On February 8, 2019, the Parent Company, as guarantor, along with its wholly-owned subsidiaries Ditech Financial and RMS, entered into the DHCP Commitment Letter with Barclays Bank PLC and Nomura Corporate Funding Americas, LLC regarding the terms of the DHCP DIP Warehouse Facilities, which, upon approval from the Bankruptcy Court on February 14, 2019, provide the Company up to $1.9 billion in available financing. Proceeds of the DHCP DIP Warehouse Facilities were used to repay and refinance RMS’ and Ditech Financial’s existing master repurchase agreements and variable funding notes issued under existing servicer advance facilities. The existing master repurchase agreements and variable funding notes issued under servicer advance facilities were terminated or otherwise replaced under the DHCP DIP Warehouse Facilities. The DHCP DIP Warehouse Facilities will be used to fund Ditech Financial’s and RMS’ continued business operations, providing the necessary liquidity to the Debtors to implement the DHCP Restructuring.
Under the DHCP DIP Warehouse Facilities:
(i) up to $650.0 million will be available to fund Ditech Financial’s origination business and will incur interest based on 3-month LIBOR plus a per annum margin of 2.25%;
(ii) up to $1.0 billion will be available to RMS to fund certain HECMs and real estate owned from Ginnie Mae securitization pools, and will incur interest based on 3-month LIBOR plus a per annum margin of 3.25%; and
(iii) up to $250.0 million will be available to finance the advance receivables related to Ditech Financial’s servicing activities and will incur interest based on 3-month LIBOR plus a per annum margin of 2.25%. Two new series of variable funding notes were issued under the DHCP DIP Warehouse Facilities to replace the existing variable funding notes under the DAAT Facility and DPAT II Facility, which otherwise remain largely intact to finance advances.
In addition, the lenders under the DHCP DIP Warehouse Facilities have agreed to provide Ditech Financial, through the DIP Maturity Date, up to $1.9 billion in trading capacity for Ditech Financial to hedge its interest rate exposure with respect to the loans in Ditech Financial’s loan origination pipeline. The obligations of Ditech Financial and RMS under certain of the DHCP DIP Warehouse Facilities and related hedges are netted and cross-collateralized, pursuant to the terms of a master netting arrangement. Pursuant to such netting arrangement, the lenders under the DHCP DIP Warehouse Facilities are permitted to set-off and net certain margin held by or pledged to them under certain of the DHCP DIP Warehouse Facilities and related hedges against the obligations owed by Ditech Financial and/or RMS thereunder.
The DHCP DIP Warehouse Facilities contain customary events of default and financial covenants. Financial covenants that are most sensitive to the operating results of the Company's subsidiaries and resulting financial position are minimum tangible net worth requirements, indebtedness to tangible net worth ratio requirements, and minimum liquidity requirements. The Company was in compliance with all financial covenants under the DHCP DIP Warehouse Facilities as of February 28, 2019.
Ginnie Mae Notice of Violation
On February 8, 2019, Ginnie Mae sent Ditech Financial and RMS a notice of violation stating that Ginnie Mae learned of certain actions, including the pending filing of the DHCP Chapter 11 Cases, that purportedly constitute a violation of the terms of the Ginnie Mae Guaranty Agreements and Ginnie MBS Guide. The notice of violation outlined certain remedies available to Ginnie Mae as a result of Ditech Financial's and RMS' actions, but advised both Ditech Financial and RMS that Ginnie Mae would forbear from exercising remedies for a period of 125 days provided that Ditech Financial and RMS otherwise complied with the terms set forth in the notice of violation, including complying with additional requests of Ginnie Mae during the forbearance period.