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Debt
 12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2024
Debt Disclosure [Abstract]  
Debt Debt
Total debt of the Company, excluding film related obligations, was as follows:
 March 31,
2024		March 31,
2023
 (Amounts in millions)
Corporate debt:
Revolving Credit Facility$575.0 $— 
Term Loan A399.3 428.2 
Term Loan B819.2 831.7 
5.500% Senior Notes
715.0 800.0 
Total corporate debt2,508.5 2,059.9 
Unamortized debt issuance costs(28.5)(40.3)
Total debt, net2,480.0 2,019.6 
Less current portion(860.3)(41.4)
Non-current portion of debt$1,619.7 $1,978.2 

The following table sets forth future annual contractual principal payment commitments of debt as of March 31, 2024:
 
 Maturity DateYear Ending March 31,
Debt Type20252026202720282029ThereafterTotal
  (Amounts in millions)
Revolving Credit FacilityApril 2026$— $— $575.0 $— $— $— $575.0 
Term Loan AApril 202641.1 44.5 313.7 — — — 399.3 
Term Loan BMarch 2025819.2 — — — — — 819.2 
5.500% Senior Notes
April 2029— — — — — 715.0 715.0 
$860.3 $44.5 $888.7 $— $— $715.0 2,508.5 
Less aggregate unamortized debt issuance costs(28.5)
$2,480.0 


Senior Credit Facilities (Revolving Credit Facility, Term Loan A and Term Loan B)
Revolving Credit Facility Availability of Funds & Commitment Fee. The revolving credit facility provides for borrowings and letters of credit up to an aggregate of $1.25 billion, and at March 31, 2024 there was $675.0 million available. There were no letters of credit outstanding at March 31, 2024. However, borrowing levels are subject to certain financial covenants as discussed below. The Company is required to pay a quarterly commitment fee on the revolving credit facility of 0.250% to 0.375% per annum, depending on the achievement of certain leverage ratios, as defined in the credit and guarantee agreement dated December 8, 2016, as amended (the "Credit Agreement"), on the total revolving credit facility of $1.25 billion less the amount drawn.
Maturity Date:
•Revolving Credit Facility & Term Loan A: April 6, 2026. The outstanding amounts may become due on December 23, 2024 (i.e., 91 days prior to March 24, 2025) prior to its maturity on April 6, 2026 in the event that the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Term Loan B in excess of $250 million has not been repaid, refinanced or extended to have a maturity date on or after July 6, 2026. The Company expects to refinance and extend the maturity date of the Term Loan B prior to December 23, 2024 such that the maturity of the revolving credit facility and Term Loan A are not accelerated.
•Term Loan B: March 24, 2025.
Interest:
•Revolving Credit Facility & Term Loan A: As amended on June 14, 2023, the Revolving Credit Facility and term loan A facility due April 2026 (the "Term Loan A") bear interest at a rate per annum equal to SOFR plus 0.10% plus 1.75% margin (or an alternative base rate plus 0.75%) margin, with a SOFR floor of zero. The margin is subject to potential increases of up to 50 basis points (two (2) increases of 25 basis points each) upon certain increases to net first lien leverage ratios, as defined in the Credit Agreement (effective interest rate of 7.17% as of March 31, 2024, before the impact of interest rate swaps).
•Term Loan B: As amended on June 14, 2023, the term loan B facility due March 2025 (the "Term Loan B") bears interest at a rate per annum equal to SOFR plus 0.10% plus 2.25% margin, with a SOFR floor of zero (or an alternative base rate plus 1.25% margin) (effective interest rate of 7.67% as of March 31, 2024, before the impact of interest rate swaps).
Required Principal Payments:
•Term Loan A: Quarterly principal payments, at quarterly rates of 1.25% beginning September 30, 2022, 1.75% beginning September 30, 2023, and 2.50% beginning September 30, 2024 through March 31, 2026, with the balance payable at maturity.
•Term Loan B: Quarterly principal payments, at a quarterly rate of 0.25%, with the balance payable at maturity.
The Term Loan A and Term Loan B also require mandatory prepayments in connection with certain asset sales, subject to certain significant exceptions, and the Term Loan B is subject to additional mandatory repayment from specified percentages of excess cash flow, as defined in the Credit Agreement.
Optional Prepayment:
•Revolving Credit Facility, Term Loan A & Term Loan B: The Company may voluntarily prepay the Revolving Credit Facility, Term Loan A and Term Loan B at any time without premium or penalty.
Security. The Senior Credit Facilities are guaranteed by the guarantors named in the Credit Agreement and are secured by a security interest in substantially all of the assets of Lionsgate and the Guarantors (as defined in the Credit Agreement), subject to certain exceptions.
Covenants. The Senior Credit Facilities contain representations and warranties, events of default and affirmative and negative covenants that are customary for similar financings and which include, among other things and subject to certain significant exceptions, restrictions on the ability to declare or pay dividends, create liens, incur additional indebtedness, make investments, dispose of assets and merge or consolidate with any other person. In addition, a net first lien leverage maintenance covenant and an interest coverage ratio maintenance covenant apply to the Revolving Credit Facility and the Term Loan A and are tested quarterly. As of March 31, 2024, the Company was in compliance with all applicable covenants.
Change in Control. The Company may also be subject to an event of default upon a change in control (as defined in the Credit Agreement) which, among other things, includes a person or group acquiring ownership or control in excess of 50% of the Company’s common shares.
5.500% Senior Notes

Interest: Bears interest at 5.500% annually (payable semi-annually in arrears on April 15 and October 15 of each year, commencing on October 15, 2021).
Maturity Date: April 15, 2029.

Optional Redemption:
(i)Prior to April 15, 2024, the Company may redeem the 5.500% Senior Notes in whole at any time, or in part from time to time, at a price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the notes to be redeemed plus a "make-whole" premium, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the redemption date. The make-whole premium is the greater of (i) 1.0% of the principal amount redeemed and (ii) the excess, if any, of the present value at such redemption date of the redemption price at April 15, 2024 (see redemption prices below) plus interest through April 15, 2024 (discounted to the redemption date at the treasury rate plus 50 basis points) over the principal amount of the notes redeemed on the redemption date.
(ii)On or after April 15, 2024, the Company may redeem the 5.500% Senior Notes in whole at any time, or in part from time to time, at certain specified redemption prices, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the redemption date. Such redemption prices are as follows (as a percentage of the principal amount redeemed): (i) on or after April 15, 2024 - 102.750%; (ii) on or after April 15, 2025 - 101.375%; and (iii) on or after April 15, 2026 - 100%. In addition, the Company may redeem up to 40% of the aggregate principal amount of the notes at any time and from time to time prior to April 15, 2024 with the net proceeds of certain equity offerings at a price of 105.500% of the aggregate principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the redemption date.

Security. The 5.500% Senior Notes are unsubordinated, unsecured obligations of the Company.

Covenants. The 5.500% Senior Notes contain certain restrictions and covenants that, subject to certain exceptions, limit the Company’s ability to incur additional indebtedness, pay dividends or repurchase the Company’s common shares, make certain loans or investments, and sell or otherwise dispose of certain assets subject to certain conditions, among other limitations. As of March 31, 2024, the Company was in compliance with all applicable covenants.
Change in Control. The occurrence of a change of control will be a triggering event requiring the Company to offer to purchase from holders all of the 5.500% Senior Notes, at a price equal to 101% of the principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of purchase. In addition, certain asset dispositions will be triggering events that may require the Company to use the excess proceeds from such dispositions to make an offer to purchase the 5.500% Senior Notes at 100% of their principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of purchase.
Capacity to Pay Dividends
At March 31, 2024, the capacity to pay dividends under the Senior Credit Facilities, and the 5.500% Senior Notes significantly exceeded the amount of the Company's accumulated deficit or net loss, and therefore the Company's net loss of $1,116.3 million and accumulated deficit of $3,576.7 million were deemed free of restrictions from paying dividends at March 31, 2024.


Debt Transactions:
See Note 21 for the 5.500% Senior Notes exchanged in May 2024.
Fiscal 2024:
Senior Notes Repurchases. In the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024, the Company repurchased $85.0 million principal amount of the 5.500% Senior Notes for $61.4 million, together with accrued and unpaid interest.
Fiscal 2023:
Senior Notes Repurchases. In the fiscal year ended March 31, 2023, the Company repurchased $200.0 million principal amount of the 5.500% Senior Notes for $135.0 million, together with accrued and unpaid interest.
Term Loan A Prepayment. In April 2022, the Company voluntarily prepaid the entire outstanding principal amount of the Term Loan A due March 22, 2023 of $193.6 million, together with accrued and unpaid interest.
Fiscal 2022:
Term Loan B Repurchases. During the year ended March 31, 2022, the Company completed a series of repurchases of the Term Loan B and, in aggregate, paid $95.3 million to repurchase $96.0 million principal amount of the Term Loan B.
Senior Notes Redemption and Issuance. On April 1, 2021, the Company redeemed in full all $518.7 million outstanding principal amount of its 5.875% Senior Notes due November 2024 ("5.875% Senior Notes") and all $545.6 million outstanding principal amount of its 6.375% Senior Notes due February 2024 ("6.375% Senior Notes"). In connection with the early redemption of the 5.875% Senior Notes and the 6.375% Senior Notes, the Company paid a prepayment premium of $15.2 million and $17.4 million, respectively, plus accrued and unpaid interest to the date of redemption, pursuant to the terms of the indentures governing the 5.875% Senior Notes and the 6.375% Senior Notes, respectively.

In connection with the redemption of the 5.875% Senior Notes and the 6.375% Senior Notes, on April 1, 2021, the Company issued $1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of 5.500% Senior Notes due April 15, 2029 ("5.500% Senior Notes").
Credit Agreement Amendment. On April 6, 2021, the Company amended its Credit Agreement to, among other things, extend the maturity (the "Extension") of a portion of its revolving credit commitments, amounting to $1.25 billion, and a portion of its outstanding term A loans, amounting to $444.9 million to April 6, 2026, and make certain other changes to the covenants and other provisions therein. After giving effect to the Extension, $250.0 million of the prior revolving credit commitments and $215.1 million of term A loans remained outstanding with a maturity of March 22, 2023. The revolving credit commitments due in March of 2023 were terminated in November 2021 and the term A loans due in March of 2023 were repaid in full in April 2022 (see Fiscal 2023 discussion above).
See the Accounting for the Fiscal 2022 Senior Notes Redemption and Issuance and Credit Agreement Amendment section further below.

Gain (Loss) on Extinguishment of Debt
During the fiscal years ended March 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022, the Company recorded a gain (loss) on extinguishment of debt related to the transactions described above as summarized in the table below.
Year Ended
March 31,
202420232022
(Amounts in millions)
Gain (Loss) on Extinguishment of Debt:
Term Loan A prepayment$— $(1.3)$— 
Senior Notes repurchases in fiscal 2024 and 2023; Senior Notes redemption and issuance in fiscal 2022(1)
21.2 58.7 (24.7)
Credit Agreement amendment (Revolving Credit Facility and Term Loan A)(1)
— — (1.7)
Termination of a portion of Revolving Credit Facility commitments— — (1.1)
Term Loan B repurchases and other— — (0.7)
Production loan prepayment(2)
(1.3)— — 
$19.9 $57.4 $(28.2)
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(1)See Accounting for the Fiscal 2022 Senior Notes Redemption and Issuance and Credit Agreement Amendment section below.
(2)Represents issuance costs written off in connection with the early prepayment of certain production loans (see Note 8).
Accounting for the Fiscal 2022 Senior Notes Redemption and Issuance and Credit Agreement Amendment:
Revolving Credit Facility Credit Agreement Amendment on April 6, 2021.
•Unamortized debt issuance costs: Where the borrowing capacity (measured as the amount available under the revolving credit facility multiplied by the remaining term) was less than it was prior to the amendment measured on a creditor-by-creditor basis, the unamortized debt issuance costs were written off as a loss on extinguishment of debt in proportion to the decrease in borrowing capacity.
•Fees paid to creditors and third-party costs: All fees paid to creditors or third parties (i.e., new debt issuance costs) are being amortized over the term of the Revolving Credit Facility due in 2026.


Term Loan A Credit Agreement Amendment on April 6, 2021 and Senior Notes Redemption and Issuance on April 1, 2021. With respect to substantially all creditors participating in the Term Loan A and for the portion of the Senior Notes where the creditors participated in both the redeemed Senior Notes and the new Senior Notes, the amendment of the credit agreement and the Senior Notes redemption and issuance was considered a modification of terms since the present value of the cash flows after the amendment differed by less than a 10% change from the present value of the cash flows on a creditor-by-creditor basis prior to the amendment. Where the cash flows differed by more than 10% on a creditor by creditor basis, that portion was considered a debt extinguishment. For new participating creditors, their portion of the debt was treated as new issuances to new creditors. Accordingly, the associated costs were accounted for as follows:
•Unamortized debt issuance costs, third-party costs and fees paid to creditors: To the extent the refinancing was considered a modification of terms, the unamortized debt issuance costs and fees paid to creditors were recorded as a reduction of the applicable debt outstanding, and are being amortized over the applicable term of the debt and the third-party costs were expensed as a loss on extinguishment of debt. To the extent the refinancing was considered an extinguishment, the unamortized debt issuance costs and fees paid to creditors were expensed as a loss on extinguishment of debt, and the third-party costs were recorded as a reduction of the applicable debt outstanding and are being amortized over the applicable term of the debt. For both the Term Loan A and Senior Notes, to the extent there was a reduction of the outstanding balance on a creditor-by-creditor basis (i.e., a partial prepayment of debt), previously incurred unamortized debt issuance costs and fees were expensed as a loss on extinguishment of debt on the consolidated statement of operations.


For all of the above transactions, debt issuance costs recorded as a reduction of outstanding debt are amortized using the effective interest method.
The following table summarizes the accounting for the fiscal 2022 Credit Agreement amendment and Senior Notes redemption and issuance transactions, as described above:
Year Ended
March 31, 2022
Loss on Extinguishment of DebtRecorded as a Reduction of Outstanding Debt Balances & Amortized Over Life of New IssuancesTotal
(Amounts in millions)
Credit Agreement amendment (Revolving Credit Facility and Term Loan A) and Senior Notes redemption and issuance:
New debt issuance costs and call premiums$21.2 $31.0 $52.2 
Previously incurred debt issuance costs5.2 31.1 36.3 
$26.4 $62.1 $88.5