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French utilities firm to jump into Aussie dollars with hybrid and senior bonds
◆ UK utility prints €1.3bn dual trancher ◆ Issuer skips guidance as it masses orders north of €10bn ◆ Longer call leg draws stronger demand
◆ Fourth Reverse Yankee hybrid in euros this year ◆ US utility tightens hard on strong demand ◆ American Tower clears €750m trade with little concession
Energy companies took advantage of record tight spreads as they joined a ‘perfect storm’ of dollar funding
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France's Total became the second European issuer of a corporate hybrid in two days, following EnBW’s successful deal on Wednesday. -
The euro corporate hybrid market reopened on Wednesday as Energie Baden-Wuerttemberg sold the second leg of its intended two currency deal, the first part of which was said by onlookers to have been subject to poor market conditions early in the week.
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Showing its openness to ideas from the European continent, the UK this week followed the eurozone into corporate bond quantitative easing. The Bank of England began its long anticipated Corporate Bond Purchase Scheme on Tuesday, and already it appears to be stimulating a flurry of sterling bond issuance.
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German chemicals supplier Lanxess picked two banks to supply its €2bn bridge facility for the acquisition of Chemtura. More banks are set to join in syndication, according to a banker close to the deal.
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German utility company ENBW completed a $300m dollar hybrid bond deal on Monday, attracting 119 Asian and European accounts eager to increase their holdings of the product, despite volatility in euro markets.
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The grins on the faces of Werner Baumann and Hugh Grant, chief executives of Bayer and Monsanto, look genuine enough. The deal they have struck could catapult Baumann to head of the world’s leading agribusiness company and net Grant a reported $226m.
