Euro high yield breaks new frontier with B- divi deal

The slowly reopening European high yield market faced another test on Tuesday, following Sappi’s decision to pull its planned issue at the end of last week. Data centre and cable network firm Cogent raised a B3/B- rated add-on in order to pay a dividend. The company is too leveraged already to allow a dividend under its existing bond docs but used a “temporary deleveraging” and escrow structure to work around them.