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AIG CDO LLC Facility: Terms and Conditions |
Effective December 3, 2008 On November 10, the Federal Reserve Board and the U.S. Treasury announced the restructuring of the government's financial support to the American International Group, Inc. (AIG) in order to keep the company strong and facilitate its ability to complete its restructuring process successfully. As part of this restructuring, under section 13(3) of the Federal Reserve Act, the Federal Reserve Board authorized the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to lend up to $30 billion to a newly formed Delaware limited liability company (LLC) to fund the purchase of multi-sector collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) from certain counterparties of AIG's financial products subsidiary. Facility AIGFP, the LLC and the New York Fed have entered into agreements with AIGFP's credit derivative counterparties to terminate approximately $53.5 billion notional amount of credit derivatives and purchase the related multi-sector CDOs. Of these, CDOs with a principal amount of approximately $46.1 billion settled on November 25, 2008. Settlement on the remaining $7.4 billion is contingent upon the ability of the related counterparty to obtain the related multi-sector CDOs and thereby settle with the LLC and terminate the related credit derivative contracts with AIGFP. The amount borrowed by the LLC in connection with the transactions concluded on November 25, 2008 was $15.1 billion, and AIG also funded its full $5 billion equity contribution on the same date. AIGFP and the New York Fed are working to terminate those remaining credit derivatives or other similar derivatives that have multi-sector CDOs as underlying reference assets, and to arrange for the LLC to purchase those underlying CDOs. Any additional CDO purchases will result in additional borrowings by the LLC under the credit facility, up to an aggregate maximum of $30 billion. The New York Fed has all material control rights under the transaction documents, and will act as the managing member of the LLC for so long as the New York Fed is owed any amounts by the LLC. Terms of the Loan The interest rate on the loan from the New York Fed is one-month LIBOR plus 100 basis points (currently, a rate of approximately 2.9 percent). AIG's equity contribution will accrue distributions at a rate of one-month LIBOR plus 300 basis points (currently, a rate of approximately 4.9 percent). Repayment of the loan will begin immediately upon the receipt of proceeds from the CDO portfolio. Payments from the maturity or liquidation of the assets held by the LLC will occur on a monthly basis, and will be made in the following order (each category must be fully paid before proceeding to the next lower category):
Any remaining funds will be paid 67% to the New York Fed and 33% to AIG. As part of the transaction, AIGFP and the New York Fed have entered into an agreement under which either (i) AIGFP will make a payment to the LLC to the extent that the collateral posted by AIGFP with counterparties with respect to terminated credit derivative contracts was less than the negative mark-to-market value of the credit derivative contracts as of October 31, 2008 or (ii) the LLC will make a payment to AIGFP to the extent that the amount of such posted collateral exceeds such negative mark-to-market value. Liquidation of Assets |