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Deutsche Lufthansa decisively showed that bondholders will buy airline credit once again, without relying on extra security, extra upside or anything other than a broad-based mood of credit euphoria that is sending risk assets soaring.
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Greene King’s pub securitization Spirit Issuer is expected to default this year, after bondholders declined to waive potential covenant breaches in the same way they did for other pubcos, including the company’s larger, whole business securitization. This will give bondholders the right to enforce security, but it will test creditors’ desire to take over the assets outright. -
Shui On Land tapped its 5.75% 2023 bond on Tuesday for an additional $200m, bringing the unrated deal to $500m.
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Balkan telecoms and cable company United Group slipped into the high yield market on Monday to launch a drive-by bond as it released its earnings results, seizing on strong market conditions to repay its revolving credit facility and part-fund the purchase of Greece’s Forthnet.
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Bonds from India’s Future Retail rallied in the secondary market this week, after Reliance Industries got approval to buy the struggling business.
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German flag carrier Lufthansa mandated a new unsecured bond on Monday, two weeks after it stormed into the convertible market on the back of the rally sparked by positive Covid-19 vaccine trials. The airline might have lost its investment grade ratings, but it is sticking to high grade bond execution norms, prepping a Reg S-only unsecured issue from its EMTN shelf.
