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Wind Hellas, the Greek telecoms firm owned by GoldenTree and Cyrus Capital Partners, announced a new €500m 2024 bond on Tuesday to push out its maturities and lock in cash, ahead of Greece’s 5G auction. The deal}s terms allow Wind Hellas to pay a special dividend after selling its mobile phone towers.
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Teekay Shuttle Tankers has mandated a $150m “green bond” to fund new oil tankers built to the firm’s “e-shuttle” standards. The deal raises questions about the logic of using green-branded debt instruments to fund fossil fuel extraction.
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Virgin Media launched a refinancing of its $3.4bn senior secured term loan B, with a combined offering across sterling bonds, and euro and dollar loans. The move comes two weeks after Swiss telco Salt proved that bonds could price meaningfully tighter than leveraged loans for the right issuer, and Virgin also saw a strong result.
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Zhongliang Holdings Group Co, the Chinese high yield property company, returned to the dollar bond market on Friday, adding $100m to its coffers in a tap of its maiden 2021 bonds, issued only the week before.
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Beijing Hongkun Weiye Real Estate Development Co sold a three non-put two year bond on Friday last week with one of the highest yields Asia has seen this year.
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A number of dollar bond issuers in Asia have moved to reopen their existing notes and add more funds to their coffers ahead of a week-long holiday in China for National Day.