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German commercial real estate company DIC Asset has launched its second Schuldschein, for an initial target of €100m, according to a term sheet distributed to investors. The debt’s margins will be tied to the proportion of green assets the borrower has on its balance sheet. Most notably, there is a ‘fast track’ settlement date for banks needing to secure assets before an ECB funding deadline that falls at the end of this month. -
Austrian paper and packaging company Mayr-Melnhof Karton has sold €1bn of long-dated Schuldscheine, in the first transaction of that size this year. The deal, which will fund acquisitions in Finland and Poland, showcases the high amounts and attractive structures companies can achieve due to a supply and demand imbalance in the German private placement market.
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HIG Capital has hired a managing director from Houlihan Lokey for its European direct lending platform.
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After a poll of market participants at the end of 2020, GlobalCapital can now reveal the winners of its annual Syndicated Loan and Leveraged Finance Awards. GlobalCapital can also reveal the winners of the Private Debt Awards. Regrettably, we still cannot celebrate the awards with you in person, but we congratulate all the winners and nominees in this exceptionally challenging year.
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The Schuldschein market must adapt if it wants to win back its international borrower base. While competing with public bonds on price may be out of reach, the instrument can take a leaf out of the US private placement’s book and introduce deferred funding.
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Dyal Capital, the US private equity firm that specialises in buying minority equity stakes in private equity and hedge fund managers, has employed a financing method — private placements securitized on fund cashflows — rarely seen before in its industry, writes Silas Brown.
