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Altice, the international telecoms group led by Patrick Drahi, has set final terms for its jumbo high yield bond issue for its holding company, worth €2.8bn. It paid up compared with its curve to issue, but managed to place the second largest triple-C tranche ever issued in euros, a source said. -
Indonesia’s Medco Energi Internasional wrapped up a $650m bond outing on Thursday, closing off an acquisition financing exercise linked to a bridge loan from earlier in the year.
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Energy services group Serba Dinamik Holdings raised $300m from a three year wakala sukuk on Thursday, before watching the bond quickly trade up in the secondary market.
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The high costs of bidding for the next generation of mobile technology is pushing telecoms firms, many of which operate with leveraged capital structures, to sharpen their balance sheets through asset sales and paying down debt. Mobile moguls like Patrice Drahi, Xavier Niel and John Malone are all taking steps to optimise their empires. Owen Sanderson reports.
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William Hill’s £350m seven year high yield deal last week grabbed an opportunity opened up by the extension to the Brexit deadline, according to group treasurer Mark Hirst, supplying a sterling market that has seen sparse issuance so far this year. But the constrained supply in the market meant the company’s attempt to buy back its 2020s at 103 attracted limited investor interest.
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EG Group, the UK petrol station company owned by TDR Capital, has boosted the size of its dual currency high yield bond issue, adding a new senior secured euro tranche on the back of high demand. But senior bondholders are getting a rough deal from the size increase, which is being partly used to cut their safety cushion by paying off second lien debt.
