Takeaway Tuesday #1 8/30/2022

Welcome to the inaugural Takeaway Tuesday (or Tuesday Takeaways...still haven't decided). As a reminder the format is:

• Two Reorg articles, one performing credit/one non performing credit
• Two articles I found interesting this week
• One thing I bet you didn't know you could do on Reorg

Reorg Content (subscription required)

• The incredible saga of 3M ($MMM) on both the combat litigation and the potential monsoon of issues from PFOA and PFOS designations...or how fast can $70B of market cap / or an IG rating get eliminated...

• Regulatory Coverage: EPA Proposes to Designate PFOA, PFOS ‘Forever’ Chemicals, Including 3M Products, as ‘Hazardous Substances,’ Enabling Government to Recover Cleanup Costs From Companies
• Aearo Bankruptcy Court Denies 3M Litigation Injunction Because Prepetition Funding Agreement Not Contingent on Injunction, Says Size of Mass Tort MDL Alone Insufficient to Justify Protecting Nondebtors
• Aearo Technologies Seeks Certification for Direct Review By Bankruptcy Court to 7th Circuit Court of Appeals of Bankruptcy Court’s Order Denying Extension of Injunction to 3M Combat Arms Earplugs MDL
• And many more...

• Diamond Sports, one of, if not the most topical name in stressed/distressed credit - Reorg penned a piece of hypothetical bankruptcy catalyst considerations. One takeaway we had: "If DSG were to reject certain unprofitable team rights contracts per section 365(d)(2), those teams would need to arrange for backup production capabilities, distributor relationships and advertisement deals. Such operational complexity while teams would need to fund their costs, such as payroll, might also place Diamond into a more favorable position to push back on its existing contract terms."

Two Pieces of Content You may Find Interesting

1. China on the tightrope - I learned so much from this article and admittedly I don't think people are talking about this enough. Global demand destruction for everything could have serious deflationary consequences
2. Google Doc on Conversation Starters - Put together by Rob Walker who writes The Art of Noticing. My favorite: If you did not have to sleep, how would you spend the extra 8 hours?

Something I bet you didn't know you could do on Reorg

When I was an analyst I would run redlines on anything from 10Qs vs last quarter 10Qs, to amendments to other disclosures. On Reorg you can do this under our SEC Filings technology

First click on a 10-Q...then click Compare Documents

Pick the document you want to compare your document to....(I did the most recent Q versus same quarter last year Q) and boom....

If you have any questions, you can always reach out to your Customer Success Manager at Reorg.

If you guys have any ideas on how to improve this format, please hit me up on Twitter (@ddinvesting) or my email. In future, I'll try to incorporate some video here as well. Thanks all