This is the Online Appendix to accompany “Concentration of Control Rights in Leveraged Loan Syndicates” by Mitchell Berlin, Greg Nini, and Edison Yu. It includes material that we deem as supplementary to the primary analysis included in the main document

We find that corporate loan contracts frequently concentrate control rights with a subset of lenders. Despite the rise in term loans without financial covenants—so-called covenant-lite loans—borrowing firms' revolving lines of credit almost always retain traditional financial covenants. This...

We develop a measure of climate transition risk for regional economies in the US, based on the mix of firms that produce emissions in each region. To quantify transition risks, we consider the introduction of an emissions tax levied on companies emitting greenhouse gases and estimate changes in...

Corporate loan contracts frequently concentrate control rights with a subset of lenders. In a large fraction of leveraged loans, which typically include a revolving line of credit and a term loan, the revolving lenders have the exclusive right and ability to monitor and renegotiate the financial...