,” the live events company said in an SEC filing Monday. The company’s executive officers voluntarily agreed to cut their pay by up to 50%.
The filing also said Live Nation on April agreed with its banks on a new $120 million revolving loan facility that could be boosted to $150 million by May 9. It would add to an outstanding $400 million revolver to give the company and additional cash cushion to weather the global pandemic, which has shutted all live events and decimated Live Nation’s revenue.oring compensation to contractual levels.
Company across media and entertainment, and other hard hit sectors, are seeing executives slash compensation as operations are stalled and staff furloughed, and raise new case through loans or sale of debt securities. Rapino’s pay will go from $3,000,000 to zero; President Joe Berchtold, from $1.3 million to $650,000; chief accounting officer Brian Capo, from $363,500 to $272,625; General Counsel Michael Rowles, from $800,000 to $400,000; and CFO Kathy Willard, from $950,000 to $475,000.
“The reductions in salary are effective from April 16 “until such time as the compensation committee of the Company’s board of directors determines circumstances warrant restoring compensation to contractual levels,” he filing said.