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Aston Martin, the British luxury carmaker, has arranged a new financing package to strengthen its balance sheet and cash reserves as it embarks on an ambitious new partnership with German car giant Mercedes-Benz, to start producing electric cars. The bond leg, however, was launched into a difficult market, with the Crossover widening sharply during the first day of bookbuilding.
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Permira and partners have injected £600m of equity into their debt collector portfolio company Lowell as part of a £2.2bn recapitalisation and refinancing effort for the troubled company, which saw its bonds heavily shorted and was widely expected to restructure its liabilities this year. The contribution is the largest equity injection from a sponsor in EMEA since the coronavirus pandemic began, and reflects what Lowell's management sees as a historic opportunity to buy NPL portfolios in the months ahead. -
Goldman Sachs is marketing a new high yield bond for Delek Energy, backed by the royalty payments to come from the Leviathan gas field off the coast of Israel. The financing is effectively super senior to a $2.25bn bond issued in the summer, and ekes out extra debt capacity, borrowing financial technology common in the US shale industry and applying it to a new, Israeli context.
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The European Commission has bowed to lobbying by investors and delayed compelling them to follow the detailed requirements of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation — a complex reporting task that is ill-matched with another EU rule, the Taxonomy of Sustainable Economic Activities.
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The European Union’s formation of its Platform on Sustainable Finance last week marks a new phase in responsible investing. Over the past four years or so, the most influential thinkers in the market, such as the Principles for Responsible Investing, have been quietly moving back to an older interpretation of what RI means: considering the effects of investment choices on others.
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Wartchow heads to Pemberton — Barclays names permanent equities heads — Bonilla joins Kartesia
