Michael Pearson ValeantREUTERS/Christinne MuschiJ. Michael Pearson, chairman of the board and CEO of Valeant Pharmaceuticals.
What a difference a day — or two — makes.
Valeant has been talking to its lenders to try and amend the terms of some loans it has taken out.
The company had failed to file its 10-K by March 15, and a failure to file it before April 29 would have triggered a technical default on those loans.
On Monday, Valeant Pharmaceuticals' creditors did not seem open to showing the company mercy by allowing Valeant to amend the terms of its debt.
Now, according to The Wall Street Journal, it looks like they will.
According to the WSJ:
Valeant agreed to pay a fee of $50,000 per $10 million of loans to lenders for the amendment and to boost interest rates on the debt by 1 percentage point, though the rate could decline if Valeant achieves certain financial metrics, the person said.
The company needed more than half of the creditors of its $11 billion in secured loans to agree.
Valeant's share price was up 18% during regular trading on Wednesday, and jumped another 4% in after-hours trading after the WSJ reported the loan agreement.
This all started when Valeant announced that it would delay the findings of its annual report because of a discrepancy found by its internal ad-hoc committee.
The committee was created to find any issues surrounding Valeant's involvement with a once secret distributor called Philidor. The committee found a $58 million error — a blip, really, for a company Valeant's size — and then concluded its investigation into Philidor on Tuesday.
Philidor's existence was disclosed in October, when scrutiny over Valeant's pricing practices, combined with accusations of malfeasance from a short seller, forced the company to acknowledge Philidor.
It looks like everyone wants to put that behind them, though. We'll see how that works.