Top 10 Practice Tips: Liability Management Transactions

This practice note provides key practice tips for advising a client considering a liability management transaction. Given recurring periods of market volatility, issuers in a wide range of industry sectors from time to time evaluate potential liability management transactions, including debt repurchases, tender or exchange offers, and consent solicitations. Liability management transactions allow an issuer to refinance or restructure its outstanding obligations and may, under certain circumstances, allow an issuer to achieve certain accounting, regulatory, or tax objectives.