Guarantees from multiple guarantors


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Practice notes

Guarantees from multiple guarantors


Published by a UUÂãÁÄÖ±²¥ Banking & Finance expert

Practice notes
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It is often the case that financing transactions require guarantees to be given by more than one guarantor. For example, guarantees might be required from a number of companies in a group to support group borrowings or from each of the Directors of a company to support Loans made to that company. In such cases it is important to be aware of:

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    the rights of the lender against the guarantors and, in what circumstances those rights might be diminished, and

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    the rights of each guarantor against its co-guarantors

How multiple guarantor guarantees are documented

Where a transaction involves more than one guarantor, the guarantee arrangements are typically documented either:

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    in one guarantee executed by all of the co-guarantors—this could take the form of either a single standalone guarantee document executed by all the co-guarantors (see for example, Precedent: Guarantee and indemnity: cross guarantee from group companies—bilateral—all monies) or specific provisions in the facility agreement to which all the co-guarantors would be a party, or

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    in several separate guarantee documents, one for each co-guarantor

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