Navigating Oversubscribed and Undersubscribed Syndications
How do you deal with
oversubscribed syndications or
undersubscribed syndications?
Can you do it? Is it possible?
What do I do? How do I
communicate it what what has to
happen in order to be compliant?
Fat is exactly what this video
is about.
My name is Tilden Moschetti. I
am a syndication attorney with
the Moschetti syndication Law
Group. Sometimes some of my
sponsors come to me with the
great problem of, hey, I've
raised $5 million, I've raised
some certain amount of money.
And I think we could raise a
whole lot more and build a much
bigger fund. It was so easy, we
had no problem I love when I
hear that the answer to their
question that underlies it, all
of whether we can do that or
not, is yes, you can do that. We
can make it so that your fund
raises more. When I'm drafting a
PPM and an operating agreement,
I'm always leaving in the
opportunity in order to ratchet
up the amount of money that's
raised. The reason is because I
want you to grow, right, so we
need to build that in. What has
to happen, though, is because
the dynamics that the investors
are getting, and that what
they're thinking of, they may
need to know what's going on,
right? This could be a material
change, and it probably is
somewhat material. So if I put
together a blind pool, and I say
I'm raising $5 million, and
suddenly, now I'm raising seven
$2 million more means there's a
lot of other investors, there
might be increased risk, because
there are more investors, there
might be, you know, a dilution
over what assets there are going
to be, there's something like
that, because there's this
additional amount of money.
Well, the investors who have
already subscribed, they gotta
know, you gotta tell them and
make sure that communication
comes out. So we can help you
craft that message to make sure
that it's communicated in a way
that not only is compliant, so
not only are you not gonna get
in trouble for it, but make sure
that it's a way that your
investors can see the bright
side of what you're doing. The
Bright Side of being
oversubscribed and turning it
from 5 million to 7 million, is
now you've got a more diverse
portfolio. So you have a
portfolio that is has the
opportunity to be able to lower
the risk that one asset is going
to cause trouble. Because now
you're more, you're more
diverse, you have more things
going on. The other advantage is
now you can buy new level of
opportunities, there might be
more assets that you're able to
buy, that could generate even
greater returns, you can be a
little bit more picky on the
lower performing ones, and then
go for just the super performing
ones as well. So you can build
in something higher. So that's
part of the strategy that we
come up with, with our clients
to make sure that they've
they're communicating it in the
positive way. But what you're
asking about the opposite what
about in the case where I've,
I've said I was raising 5
million, and now I'm only going
to raise three? What about that
situation? How do we deal with
that? Well, that situation has a
major bright side of it as well.
So now the investors came into
this thinking that they were
going to get this certain level
of ownership, right, they
thought they were going to be
pegged in and you know, 10%
ownership, and suddenly, now
that you need $2 million dollars
less, their percentage of
ownership has just shot up. So
it think of it like a share of
stock buyback, it's not the same
thing, because it's not cash
going into that necessarily. But
it's it's cash that it's that
overall price has gone down. So
their percentage of equity goes
up higher. So it's actually
quite a good thing when that can
happen. The challenge is, is how
do you deal with that
communication so that they see
the bright side? And also then
we need to make sure that the
mechanisms. So as a syndication
attorney, I'm always thinking
about how what are what are the
investors going to think? Is
this a problem? Is this going to
be compliant? What are the
mechanisms that are in place
that allow me to lower that
amount that I'm raising? And
also, of course, how am I going
to get any make money that comes
in? Because sometimes not very
often, but sometimes the
situation is I only raised 3
million, and I still need that
additional 2 million. So you
might use regular financing and
you might use a bank loan or you
might use a hard money lender.
There's options out there in
order to do it. Or maybe it's an
offering of a different kind of
piece of the security. Maybe
it's just a pure fixed rate
return that that some investors
can get in order to be
satisfied. Whatever that is.
There's ways to bridge that gap.
But we need to make sure that
investors know what's going on,
because investors at the end of
the day are entitled to a full
view of what this what your
investment product looks like.
So I hope that helps Hope that
helps define what happens with
the oversubscribed
undersubscribed, because it's
still a workable situation. It
happens quite often that one of
those two comes up that we need
to move things around. That's
part of why you hire an
experienced syndication attorney
like myself, who's been in that
situation not only as a
syndication attorney, but I've
been in that set in that
situation as a syndicator.
myself because I do my own
deals. So my name is Tilden
Moschetti. I am a syndication
attorney with the Moschetti
syndication Law Group. If you
think you might be able to we
might be able to help you with
your project. Give us a call.
Let's talk about what you're
working on. See if there's an
opportunity for us to help you
and we can go from there.