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Borrowing Facilities
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2019
Borrowing Facilities [Abstract]  
Borrowing Facilities

10.  Borrowing facilities:

The Company is party to a $75 million revolving credit facility (the “Credit Facility”), with a syndicate of financial institutions as lenders. Other parties to the Credit Facility include ATEL Capital Group and certain subsidiaries and affiliated funds. Set to expire on June 30, 2019, the Credit Facility was temporarily extended while an amendment was finalized reducing the availability to $55 million with a scheduled expiration date of June 30, 2021.  

The joint Credit Facility is comprised of a working capital facility, an acquisition facility (the “Acquisition Facility”) and a warehouse facility (“the Warehouse Facility”), the Company and affiliates, and a venture facility.

 

The lending syndicate providing the Credit Facility has a blanket lien on all of the participant’s assets as collateral for any and all borrowings under the Acquisition Facility, and on a pro-rata basis under the Warehouse Facility.

Such Credit Facility includes certain financial covenants.

 

At September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, the total ATEL Capital Group and subsidiaries and affiliated funds borrowings under the Credit Facility were as follows (in thousands):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

September 30, 

    

December 31, 

 

 

2019

 

2018

Total available under the financing arrangement

 

$

75,000

 

$

75,000

Amount borrowed by the Company under the acquisition facility

 

 

 —

 

 

(1,200)

Amount borrowed by affiliated partnerships and limited liability companies under the

  venture, acquisition, and warehouse facilities.

 

 

(865)

 

 

(910)

Total remaining available under the working capital, acquisition and warehouse facilities

 

$

74,135

 

$

72,890

 

The Company and its affiliates paid an annual commitment fee to have access to this line of credit. As of September 30, 2019, the Company was in compliance with all material financial covenants, and with all other material conditions of the Credit Facility during the tenure of this participation.

Fees and interest terms:

The interest rate on the Credit Facility is based on either the LIBOR/Eurocurrency rate of 1-, 2-, 3- or 6-month maturity plus a lender designated spread, or the bank’s Prime rate, which re-prices daily. Principal amounts of loans made under the Credit Facility that are prepaid may be re-borrowed on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth under the Credit Facility.

Warehouse Facility:

To hold the assets under the Warehouse facility prior to allocation to specific investor programs, a Warehousing Trust must have been entered into by the Company, AFS, ALC and certain of the affiliated partnerships and limited liability companies.

 

The Warehousing Trust is used by the Warehouse Facility borrowers to acquire and hold, on a short-term basis, certain lease transactions that meet the investment objectives of each of such entities. Each of the leasing programs sponsored by AFS and ALC is a pro rata participant in the Warehousing Trust, as described below. When a program no longer has a need for short-term financing provided by the Warehousing Facility, it is removed from participation, and as new leasing investment entities are formed by AFS and ALC and commence their acquisition stages, these new entities are added.

 

As of September 30, 2019, the investment program participants were ATEL 15, LLC, ATEL 16, LLC and the Company. Pursuant to the Warehousing Trust, the benefit of the lease transaction assets, and the corresponding liabilities under the Warehouse Facility, inure to each of such entities based upon each entity’s pro-rata share in the Warehousing Trust estate. The “pro-rata share” is calculated as a ratio of the net worth of each entity over the aggregate net worth of all entities benefiting from the Warehousing Trust estate, excepting that the trustees, AFS and ALC, are both jointly and severally liable for the pro-rata portion of the obligations of each of the affiliated limited liability companies participating under the Warehouse Facility.

 

Transactions are financed through this Warehouse Facility only until the transactions are allocated to a specific program for purchase or are otherwise disposed by AFS and ALC. When a determination is made to allocate the transaction to a specific program for purchase by the program, the purchaser repays the debt associated with the asset, either with cash or by means of proceeds of a draw under the Acquisition Facility, and the asset is removed from the Warehouse Facility collateral, and ownership of the asset and any debt obligation associated with the asset are assumed solely by the purchasing entity.

 

There were no borrowings under the Warehouse Facility as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018.