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◆ US drugs firm pays single digit NIP ◆ Friday deals growing more common ◆ Issuer moves ahead of anticipated quiet week
French company diversifies funding after inaugural dollar deal last year
Issuers rewarded with tight pricing
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Zhenro Properties Group sold a short dated bond worth $220m on Thursday, adding further momentum to Asia’s growing green market. -
Marvell Technology, the Bermuda-registered US chipmaker, jumped into the dollar bond market this week with a $2bn trade linked to a $10bn acquisition, after clinching the deal more quickly than expected.
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Debt markets are awaiting a wave of mergers and acquisition financings in the second quarter and later this year, as the boom in deals sparked by confidence that the economy is recovering from the coronavirus gathers steam. But the eagerness to lend will create tension between loan and bond markets, and deals are likely to get more challenging later in the year, write Mike Turner and Jon Hay.
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The short Easter week saw a timid showing of new high grade corporate issuance in the European market but investors snapped up the trades that were on screens.
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Gatwick Airport got a bulging order book for its return to the senior funding market, weeks after the UK airport got chunky demand for its debut subordinated transaction.
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Organon, the spin-off from US pharma company Merck, has launched a bond leg of its financing, which will establish the unit as a separate firm with its own capital structure, while funding a $9bn dividend to its former parent. The firm was initially offering $4.5bn-equivalent across secured and unsecured bonds, with a bias to the deeper dollar market, but scaled this up during syndication to allow it to strip out bank debt.
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