Latest news on corporate MTNs, private placements, Schuldscheine

• BlackRock closes private debt fund focused on Europe’s mid-market

  

  BlackRock has closed its first private debt fund dedicated to the European middle market, as the asset manager predicts private debt will be increasingly "significant" in the way mid-cap companies are financed.

  • 03:45 PM

• Bock to join Barings’ private finance platform

  

  Jonathan Bock, who previously held the role of managing director and senior equity analyst at Wells Fargo, will become a managing director on Barings’ global private finance platform.

  • 10:15 AM

• Schuldschein arrangers vindicated as market bounces back and regains lost ground

  

  The Schuldschein market is back to its active self with over 20 borrowers marketing deals. This is sweet vindication for Schuldschein arrangers, who’ve had to fend off the sceptics that felt the market fell from grace after Carillion and Steinhoff.

  • 17 Jul 2018

• Société d’Infrastructure Gazières issues largest Euro PP of 2018

  

  Société d’Infrastructure Gazières, a holding company jointly owned by CNP Assurances and Caisse des Dépôts whose sole asset is a 24.91% minority stake in natural gas network GRTgaz, has issued a €586.4m Euro PP bond.

  • 16 Jul 2018

• Andritz seeks Schuldschein for M&A with novel maturity range

  

  Austrian machinery maker Andritz has launched a €300m four tranche Schuldschein, with the intention to see if lenders could be lured out along the maturity curve with its five, seven, 7.75 and 10 year tranches.

  • 12 Jul 2018

• Andritz seeks Schuldschein for M&A with novel maturity range

  

  Austrian machinery maker Andritz has launched a €300m four tranche Schuldschein, with tranches of seven years and 7.75 years. A banker said the intention was to see if lenders could be lured further out along the maturity curve.

  • 10 Jul 2018

• Euro PP buyers lean to loans as MAR and MiFID bite

  

  Euro private placement (Euro PP) transactions can be structured as loans or as bonds, depending on the preferences of both parties. But some smaller investors have withdrawn from the bond format, concerned that it brings them into the scope of MiFID II and of MAR, though market participants are hatching plans to bring them back.

  • 05 Jul 2018

• Loans in brief - July 5, 2018

  • 05 Jul 2018

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