According to The Motley Fool, LINN Energy has maxed out its credit facility, borrowing approximately $919 million. The prolonged decrease in oil and gas prices has many company’s scrambling to manage their debt. To help them explore strategic alternatives to manage the company’s debt, LINN Energy recently announced they hired advisers to help evaluate their options.

Motley Fool reports that LINN Energy has spent the past your working on improving their financing position and were able to lop off a net $1.8 billion in debt. However, it appears that this may not have been enough to put them on the right track.

It is unclear if LINN Energy will seek bankruptcy protection to restructure their debt. The Motley Fool speculates that LINN Energy may begin selling the company off piece-by-piece and could possibly abandon the upstream Master Limited Partnership format.

The White Law Group is investigating the liability that brokerage firms and financial advisors may have for recommending high risk MLPs, like LINN Energy, to their clients. To learn more about LINN Energy MLP’s visit https://www.whitesecuritieslaw.com/2015/12/11/recovery-of-linn-energy-upstream-master-limited-partnership-mlp-investment-losses-2/.

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