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UK hospitality companies have been avid users of the US private placement market in the past, but since the coronavirus pandemic began, their businesses have been up-ended, with pubs subject to curfews, social distancing and closures. Fortunately, US PP investors have largely followed bank lenders in opting for leniency, waiving covenants or switching to monitoring minimum levels of liquidity. One firm even managed to raise new debt this summer.
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The secondary market in Schuldscheine is rudimentary, partly as the arranging banks have never wanted to encourage it. But a little known brokerage firm is quietly acting as a go-between, helped by its contacts with non-traditional investors, writes Silas Brown.
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Bavarian dairy group Müller is marketing US private placements, according to market sources, alongside nutrition group Glanbia.
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Quadgas, a gas asset and infrastructure investment consortium that sits above UK utility Cadent Gas, has launched a US private placement, in the first whiff of a deal from the sector in the UK for more than six months.
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German technology company Körber has entered the Schuldschein market, on the hunt for at least €200m. This figure could rise with additional demand.
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Triton has closed a €744m private debt fund, Triton Debt Opportunities II (TDO II), focused on Northern Europe’s mid-market.