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Australian medical centre operator Sonic Healthcare has raised $550m of US private placements (PPs) across three tranches, as Australian borrowers solidify their position as a key source of growth for the market. -
Celia Murray has been appointed as head of M&A and corporate finance for the UK at JP Morgan.
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Capital markets have long been unattractive funding routes for UK local authorities as the Public Works Loan Board — a government body that provides loans to public bodies — has offered lending levels that public and private markets could not compete with. But a recent Treasury announcement may have tipped the scales in PP players' favour.
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The Bel Group, the French cheese company behind brands Babybel and The Laughing Cow, has become the first company to issue Euro private placement (Euro PP) notes with sustainability-linked margins, following in the footsteps of the loan market, the Schuldschein market and subsequently the bond market.
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Mann+Hummel, a veteran borrower in the Schuldschein market, struggled to place a Schuldschein, according to market sources, with participants citing ZF Friedrichshafen’s blockbuster transaction as well as the market’s over-indulgence in the auto sector this year as chief reasons.
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Institutional investors from the US have been lending to German borrowers using the Namensschuldverschreibungen (NSV) — a non-callable registered instrument that is, unlike the Schuldschein, non-cancellable after 10 years. But some are sceptical of their involvement in the market, as they are of US lenders participating in the Schuldschein market.
