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Permira and partners have injected £600m of equity into their debt collector portfolio company Lowell as part of a £2.2bn recapitalisation and refinancing effort for the troubled company, which saw its bonds heavily shorted and was widely expected to restructure its liabilities this year. The contribution is the largest equity injection from a sponsor in EMEA since the coronavirus pandemic began, and reflects what Lowell's management sees as a historic opportunity to buy NPL portfolios in the months ahead. -
ReNew Power, the Indian renewable energy giant, brought a $325m green bond to the market on Tuesday. It offered investors a rare opportunity to buy a high yielding deal from the country, despite using a fairly unusual structure for its transaction.
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Getlink, the company that operates the Channel Tunnel, is preparing a €700m high yield green bond to refinance its 2023 bonds and raise cash for capex, including finishing off a landmark electricity connection between the UK and France. The refi comes after it negotiated waivers on the covenants in its term loan to deal with the impact of the pandemic.
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Goldman Sachs is marketing a new high yield bond for Delek Energy, backed by the royalty payments to come from the Leviathan gas field off the coast of Israel. The financing is effectively super senior to a $2.25bn bond issued in the summer, and ekes out extra debt capacity, borrowing financial technology common in the US shale industry and applying it to a new, Israeli context.
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Leveraged companies or sponsors seeking financing are moving quickly to fund in the immediate aftermath of the November 3 US election. Monday morning saw more than €3bn-equivalent of new supply across high yield bonds and loans announced, across six separate issuers.
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JP Morgan's Raj Kapadia has joined MUFG as international head of capital markets, as the firm increases its leveraged finance focus. It has also set up a new group to advise clients at the C-suite level on market and macroeconomic developments, led by Tom Joyce, a hire from Deutsche Bank.
