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Debt collector Lowell said on Friday that it had issued a private placement of high yield bonds to raise £117.5m-equivalent, taking advantage of strong market conditions to further shore up liquidity following its October refi. -
Embattled Chinese borrower Tsinghua Unigroup Co missed payment on a $450m bond that was due on Thursday, with the non-payment expected to trigger cross-defaults on a number of its other dollar notes.
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GlobalCapital and Standard Chartered hosted a combination of virtual and in-person roundtable on the China high yield debt market at the end of November. The third part of a 2020 series followed the first roundtable in April and the second in July. This time around, leading experts came together to discuss the opportunities and outlook for the Mainland’s high yield bond market.
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Mid-December is rarely the perfect time to take out more than €1bn of LBO financing, but 2020 has been full of surprises, and BC Partners’ acquisition debt for its investment in Italian machinery maker Industria Macchine Automatiche (IMA) flew off the shelf — though not without a tweak to the most aggressive documentation terms. Plenty of other high yield issuers also spotted the window, which looks set to make this December record-breaking.
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Axactor, a Norwegian debt purchaser firm, has launched a refinancing of its €200m 2021 bond alongside a rights issue, and a clean-up of its capital structure, which will "increase its capacity for new investments in a highly attractive NPL market".
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Vedanta Resources sold a $1bn bond this week, easing mounting concerns about its debt repayment abilities. The metal and mining company’s return was not easy, as it had to concede to a number of investor-friendly terms. Morgan Davis reports.
