Mandate to evaluate financial instruments as part of a certificate of interest rate for a convertible bond
Mandate for the evaluation of financial instruments in order to determine the market interest rate applicable to a convertible bond issue carried out by an industrial company.
Mandate description
The mission consisted in issuing a Market rate certificate for a convertible bond, in accordance with compliance and financial governance requirements.
The aim was to Determine the fair value of the implied interest rate, in order to ensure that financing complies with market standards and applicable regulatory requirements (IFRS 9 and IAS 32).
Key issues
The main challenges consisted of:
- model the components of the bond: Share of debt and conversion option ;
- Estimate the market rate of return based on the risk profile of the issuer and the maturity of the security;
- and insure the Coherence of valuation with the financing conditions observed for companies of comparable size and sector.
The evaluation involved:
- one risk-free yield curve approach;
- one adjustment by the sectoral credit spread;
- And a modeling of the optional component by the adjusted Black-Scholes method.
Approach and results
The work made it possible to determine a fair market rate, used for the contractual documentation of the issue and for the internal validation of the financing. The certification also made it possible to objectify the valuation of the derivative component and to strengthen the accounting and regulatory compliance of the transaction.
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