Shareholders will decide Thursday how the London-listed fund will continue – and whether its planned catalog sale will go through.
Merck Mercuriadis at the Billboard Power 100 Event held at Goya Studios on February 1, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.Thursday could be a pivotal moment in the history of Hipgnosis Songs Fund, which went public in 2018, raising $260 million, and helped legitimize song catalogs as an investment vehicle.
Another blow to shareholders’ trust in the board came in 2022 when Hipgnosis Songs Fund refinanced its revolving credit facility to reduce its interest margin and provide greater financial flexibility. Many other companies refinanced debt in 2020 and 2021 to take advantage of low interest rates in the early days of the pandemic. “They waited too long and then the process took very long,” says Halberstadt.
If the continuation vote fails, the board has six months to create a proposal “for the reconstruction, reorganization or winding-up” of the fund, according to its prospectus. “If shareholders vote against continuation on Thursday, it’s almost like it’s the end of the beginning, not the beginning of the end,” says Hose.
But getting rid of Mercuriadis would create challenges that shareholders might want to avoid. If Mercuriadis departs and Hipgnosis Songs Management is unable to find a replacement satisfactory to the public company’s lenders within 90 days, Hipgnosis Songs Fund would be in default and lenders may demand repayment of all amounts in the revolving credit facility, according to the company’s prospectus.
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