Punch asks bondholders to look at last year's figures when assessing debt

UK pub companies with secured debt structures are asking bondholders to waive covenants and suspend potential enforcement action, as the government-mandated shutdown continues. Bondholders in Punch Taverns Finance B are being asked to feed last year's figures into covenant calculations while the lockdown is in force, in a potential model for the other pub companies struggling with stalled cashflow.