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Sterling has dropped to levels not seen since the 1980s, making UK assets seem cheap to international buyers. But that is unlikely to be the driver of the recent crop of UK M&A. -
Two near-investment grade industrials made a splash in the high yield bond market on Monday, with both Smurfit Kappa and Thyssenkrupp getting their order books oversubscribed multiple times.
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Companies could be stopped from picking their favourite jurisdiction for restructurings, if a crucial ruling over the fate of troubled heat exchanger firm Galapagos SA goes in favour of a group of high yield bondholders.
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Troubled airline Norwegian Air Shuttle has offered high yield bondholders security over its take-off and landing rights at London’s Gatwick Airport, in exchange for agreeing to extend the maturity of the debt.
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Europe’s patchwork of insolvency laws gives canny corporates and creditors the chance to pick the jurisdiction they want to use. That leads to absurd outcomes — and the sooner it ends, the better.
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The European high yield bond market was built on telecoms companies, but in the last month their share has shrunk, as several have shored up their capital structures ahead of the heavy financial lifting set to be required for 5G infrastructure. More than €10bn of high yield bonds are likely to be repaid, leaving investors sitting on piles of cash going into September.
