Cadent Overview
Established debt structure with clear creditor protections
Quadgas HoldCo
Security
Quadgas PledgeCo
Quadgas MidCo
RCF £200m
DSCR120m
Quadgas
Common
Terms
Agreement
"MidCo"
Borrowings: £2.27bn
Quadgas Finance plc
Guarantee
Cadent Gas Ltd
(Licence Holder)
"OpCo❞
RCF £500m
Borrowings: £6.97bn
Cadent Finance plc
Cadent funds in the capital markets both through the operating company (for
leverage up to 65% of RAV) and for leverage between 65 and 85.5% Net Debt to
RAV, through an intermediate holding company, Midco which benefits from Whole
Business Securitisation (WBS) structure to protect investors
Cadent Finance is 100% owned by Cadent and is incorporated to raise
borrowings in public and private markets for OpCo.
Quadgas Finance is 100% owned by Quadgas Midco and is incorporated to
raise borrowings in public and private markets for Midco.
Opco and Midco benefit from their own operational and financial covenants.
Revolving credit facilities at each level support liquidity and Midco has a debt
service reserve facility used as liquidity support to cover 18 months of Midco debt
service costs
Combined £9.2bn of external debt (Mar 2022), including index linked debt (direct
or synthetic)
£4.3bn of debt issued and facilities replaced since separation (to March 22)
Ratio tests
Quadgas MidCo
Trigger
Default
31 Mar 22
Cadent Gas
Net debt/ RAV
Adj. ICR
85.5%
1.1x
92%
1.0x
OpCo
65%
70%
81.5%
2.1x
61.1%
Bond
Programme
Default
31 Mar 22
Net debt/ RAV
70%
61.1%
net debt/ RAV
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