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The Schuldschein market’s official lines of bookbuilding have been all but shut during the Covid-19 crisis, but sources have told GlobalCapital that several companies have discreetly approached larger lenders for club or bilateral deals. -
The MTN market is expecting a wave of corporate issuance in the coming weeks, as companies seek to tap all available sources of funding to shore up their resources to survive the coronavirus crisis. Investors are open to doing deals, particularly Japanese accounts eager to buy paper at the start of their new fiscal year, which begins this week.
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UK chemicals firm Johnson Matthey is looking for a target of $300m US private placement funding, with arrangers more confident of selling dollar debt than euro or sterling flavours.
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James 'Jim' Amine has left Credit Suisse, which has folded his private credit opportunities business into a different unit.
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Private equity funds are considering how to support their portfolio companies with cash injections or rescue financings, with some sponsors turning to a select group of specialist buyers still willing to lend money against the right structure.
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GSO Capital Partners, the credit unit of private equity firm Blackstone, has raised roughly $4.5bn for its second European direct lending fund, according to an SEC filing. But as the coronavirus pandemic wrecks corporate balance sheets, several sources are concerned with how European companies will fare.
