Binding Comfort Letter

This Binding Comfort Letter is a form of “comfort” offered by a parent company to a lender in respect of a loan that has been made by the lender to the parent’s subsidiary.

Comfort letters are generally used as alternatives to guarantees. They are usually provided by a parent company to a lender where the parent company is unable (or unwilling) to provide a guarantee to the lender in respect of a loan the lender has made to one of the parent’s subsidiaries. This may be because the parent is restricted from doing so for constitutional reasons or because its own borrowings prevent it from giving guarantees.

In this comfort letter the parent is prepared instead to make certain binding written assurances to the lender. These assurances cover that:

• The borrower is its subsidiary;
• The parent will maintain its shareholding in the borrower whilst the loan is still outstanding; and
• The borrower can comply with its obligations under the loan.

Comfort letters can be binding or non-binding. This comfort letter is intended to be binding and has been drafted as such, however, it may be advisable to seek independent legal advice if you are intending to use this binding comfort letter (rather than a formal guarantee) as to its potential enforceability. This sub-folder also contains a Non-Binding Comfort letter which can be accessed here.

Alternatively, for a parent company wishing to give a guarantee, the guarantee agreements in our Guarantees sub-folder should be used.

Optional phrases / clauses are enclosed in square brackets. These should be read carefully and selected so as to be compatible with one another. Unused options should be removed from the document.

This Binding Comfort Letter is in open format.

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Binding Comfort Letter is part of Corporate Documents. Just £35.00 + VAT provides unlimited downloads from Corporate Documents for 1 year.