Private placements embrace structures in flight to quality

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Private placements embrace structures in flight to quality

A different type of flight to quality in the private placement market has emerged in the last week — an increase in demand for lightly structured notes from highly-rated issuers — contrasting with the previously used safe haven of vanilla notes from the same well rated borrowers in the aftermath of Lehman Brothers’ collapse.

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