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Note 8 - Loan Payable
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
Notes to Financial Statements  
Debt Disclosure [Text Block]
8.
Loan Payable:
 
 
Amended
2019
Credit Facility
 
On
June 14, 2019,
the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Tucows.com Co., Ting Fiber, Inc., Ting Inc., Tucows (Delaware) Inc. and Tucows (Emerald), LLC entered into an Amended and Restated Senior Secured Credit Agreement (the “Amended
2019
Credit Facility”) with Royal Bank (“RBC”), as administrative agent, and lenders party thereto (collectively with RBC, the “Lenders”) under which the Company has access to an aggregate of up to
$240
million in funds, which consists of
$180
million guaranteed credit facility and a
$60
million accordion facility. The Amended
2019
Credit Facility replaced the Company’s
2017
Amended Credit Facility.
 
In connection with the Amended
2019
Credit Facility, the Company incurred
$0.3
million of fees paid to the Lenders and
$0.2
million of legal fees related to the debt issuance. Of these fees,
$0.4
million are debt issuance costs, which have been reflected as a reduction to the carrying amount of the loan payable and will be amortized over the term of the credit facility agreement and
$0.1
million have been recorded in General and administrative expenses.
 
The obligations of the Company under the Amended
2019
Credit Agreement are secured by a
first
priority lien on substantially all of the personal property and assets of the Company and has a
four
-year term, maturing on
June 13, 2023.
 
2017
Amended Credit Facility
 
Prior to entering into the Amended
2019
Credit Facility, the Company had entered into a secured Credit Agreement (as amended, the
“2017
Amended Credit Facility”) on
January 20, 2017
with Bank of Montreal (“BMO”), RBC and Bank of Nova Scotia (collectively, the “Previous Lenders”) under which the Company had access to an aggregate of up to
$140
million in funds.
 
On
March 18, 2019,
 
the Company entered into the Second Amendment to the
2017
Credit Facility to provide the Previous Lenders’ consent for the acquisition of Ascio (discussed in “Note
3
 (c) – Acquisitions”), advance the acquisition funding and to reallocate borrowing limits between loan facilities. We incurred costs associated with the Second Amendment to the
2017
Credit Facility of
$0.2
million, which were recorded as debt issuance costs.
 
The obligations of the Company under the
2017
Amended Credit Facility were secured by a
first
priority lien on substantially all of the personal property and assets of the Company and had a
four
-year term.
 
Credit Facility Terms
 
The Amended
2019
Credit Facility is revolving with interest only payments with
no
scheduled repayments during the term.
 
The Amended
2019
Credit Facility contains customary representations and warranties, affirmative and negative covenants, and events of default. The Amended
2019
Credit Facility requires that the Company to comply with the following financial covenants: (i) at all times, a Total Funded Debt to Adjusted EBITDA Ratio (as defined in the Amended
2019
Credit Agreement) of
3.50:1;
and (ii) with respect to each fiscal quarter, an Interest Coverage Ratio (as defined in the Amended
2019
Credit Agreement) of
not
less than
3.00:1.
Further, the Company’s maximum annual Capital Expenditures cannot exceed
110%
of the forecasted capital expenditures of its annual business plan. In addition, share repurchases require the Lenders’ consent if the Company’s Total Funded Debt to Adjusted EBITDA ratio exceeds
2.00:1.
As at and for the period ending
December 31,
2019
, the Company was in compliance with these covenants and as at and for the period ending
December 31,
2018
, the Company was in compliance with the covenants under the
2017
Amended Credit Facility.
  
 Borrowings under the Amended
2019
Credit Facility will accrue interest and standby fees based on the Company’s Total Funded Debt to Adjusted EBITDA ratio and the availment type as follows: 
 
 
 
If Total Funded Debt to EBITDA is:
Availment type or fee
Less than 1.00
Greater than or equal to 1.00 and less than 2.00
Greater than or equal to 2.00 and less than 2.50
Greater than or equal to 2.50
Canadian dollar borrowings based on Bankers’ Acceptance or U.S. dollar borrowings based on LIBOR (Margin)
1.50%
1.85%
2.35%
2.85%
Canadian or U.S. dollar borrowings based on Prime Rate or U.S. dollar borrowings based on Base Rate (Margin)
0.25%
0.60%
1.10%
1.60%
Standby fees
0.30%
0.37%
0.47%
0.57%
 
The following table summarizes the Company’s borrowings under the credit facilities (Dollar amounts in thousands of U.S. dollars): 
 
   
December 31, 2019
   
December 31, 2018
 
                 
Revolver    
114,400
     
-
 
Facility A
   
-
     
1,000
 
Facility B
   
-
     
6,000
 
Facility C
   
-
     
3,232
 
Facility D
   
-
     
54,924
 
Less: unamortized debt discount and issuance costs
   
(897
)    
(555
)
Total loan payable    
113,503
     
64,601
 
Less: loan payable, current portion    
-
     
(18,400
)
Loan payable, long-term portion    
113,503
     
46,201
 
 
 
The following table summarizes our scheduled principal repayments as of
December 31,
2019
(Dollar amounts in thousands of U.S. dollars):
 
2020
   
-
 
2021
   
-
 
2022
   
-
 
2023    
114,400
 
    $
114,400
 
 
 
Other Credit Facilities
 
Prior to the Company entering into the Amended
2019
Credit Facility and the
2017
Amended Credit Facility, the Company had credit agreements (collectively the “Prior Credit Facilities”) with BMO, which provided the Company with access to a treasury risk management facility and a credit card facility. All remaining credit facilities under the Prior Credit Facilities have been terminated.