Crédit Agricole
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On Thursday German telecoms company Deutsche Telekom sold its third bond with a 2024 maturity, while Italian state owned railway operator Ferrovie Dello Stato issued its first green bond. -
Private equity firm Ardian is ready to tap Europe’s leveraged finance markets to fund the acquisition of a controlling stake in Dérivés Résiniques et Terpéniques (DRT), the French plant chemistry specialist, but there are mixed views on the outlook for further M&A-fuelled leveraged finance activity.
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Maisons du Monde, the French furniture retailer, has issued its first ever convertible bond, raising €200m to refinance a term loan. The deal was eight times oversubscribed and priced at the best end of terms for the issuer.
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Inmobiliaria Colonial, the Spanish property company, has raised €416m to partly finance its bid for rival Axiare Patrimonio.
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The three corporate bond issuers who sold new issues in euros on Tuesday offered something short, something intermediate and something long. The shorter tranches benefitted from the most interest.
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The Asian Development bank has issued its first bond to finance projects promoting women’s empowerment in Asia and the Pacific.
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The Russian loan market is moving towards more unsecured deals with Russian paper company Ilim signing the fourth unsecured deal this year, for $500m.
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Tata Motors’ £640m ($839m) refinancing has been launched into general syndication after the senior phase was completed this month.
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French toll road operator Holding d’Infrastructures de Transport paid a hefty premium last Friday as it sold a dual tranche bond to help refinance its March 2018 note. The Baa3 rated subsidiary of Spanish infrastructure company Abertis suffered from the uncertainty surrounding a takeover of its parent company.
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Once the unwavering bastion of eurozone strength, stable through an otherwise turbulent year, the German government managed to unsettle the euro market this week. The collapse of the German coalition talks at the weekend forced one SSA borrower to adjust its plans on the fly and was partly blamed for two borrowers’ failure to fill their order books. Lewis McLellan reports.
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Two of the three SSA euro syndications this week found the market tough going, relying on lead managers to fill orderbooks. Some SSA bankers lay the blame, in part, on the collapse in German government coalition talks at the weekend.
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