Hammer Clause
Categories: Company Management
Yes, you can touch this, M.C.
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In finance, a hammer clause represents a provision in an insurance policy that would force the insured party to take a settlement.
You run a push-cart sushi stand in downtown Phoenix. A few of your customers get sick from yellowtail that spoiled in the heat. They sue.
You want to fight the case in court, but your insurance company thinks it will be cheaper to settle. The policy has a hammer clause, which limits the indemnity. If you go to court, you’re paying the costs on your own.
The hammer clause is known by the nicer name of “settlement cap provision,” as well as the even nastier moniker “blackmail clause.”
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forced conversion Yeah this is also forced conversion and so's
this Yeah that is the issuer of this particular bond
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described in the indenture to force you to convert the
bond either into and say twenty five shares of common
stock or something else Which sort of implies that a
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the bond in the first place can simply call the
bond and force converted into cash for the small conversion
premium of ah two point five percent or that's twenty
five bucks in this thousand dollars par value bond So
in this sense essentially the break even Numbers actually 41
dollars a share not forty there because you get an
extra little premium bump there if they force you to
convert the bond or debt into equity Got it We'll
force conversion in a bond sense is usually something cos
do when they can either refinance the bond at cheaper
interest rates or are doing so well operationally that they
have enough cash Teo just retire their debt They call
it back They buy it back save the interest charges
and quick cash toe work doing something else Either way
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