Crédit Agricole
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Although Fosun’s acquisition of Club Mediterranee (Club Med) marks another step in the advance of Chinese investment in Europe, the transaction’s buyout debt is unlikely to send pulses racing, as the borrower is aiming for a conservative debt package. -
Spanish civil and engineering company Grupo Actividades de Construcción y Servicios announced a €2.4bn five year loan today with a syndicate of 43 banks. The deal took three months to complete, which is unusual in the Spanish market, where deals usually take three weeks, said one Spanish banker.
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Italian electricity company Enel refinanced a €9.4bn credit facility on Thursday and reduced the margin on the loan from 190bp to 80bp over Euribor.
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Quanta Computer subsidiary Quanta International has picked a group of 19 banks to supply funds for its $700m self arranged loan.
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An incredible streak of record breaking low yields skipped through the covered bond market this week as issuers from Germany and France set new records, while another outside the Eurozone issued the first deal longer than 10 years with a coupon below 1%. Despite the low level of return, investors piled into all three euro transactions.
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Apple may well be the darling of the bond markets but arch rival Microsoft proved that it is still a massive draw when it printed the biggest deal of the year at tighter spreads than its rival.
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Publicis, the French advertising firm, has signed a $1.6bn loan with maturities of 2018, 2019 and 2020 and a margin of 60bp.
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Smurfit Kappa Group, the Irish packaging group, priced a €250m 10 year high yield bond on Wednesday evening that found solid demand, after announcing higher earnings and revenue for 2014.
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Tentative allocations are out for Indonesian oil and gas company Pertamina’s five year fundraising. The loan has been closed at a size of $1.747bn, with the dozen banks at the top that prefunded the money managing to sell down as per expectations, said bankers close to the transaction.
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North Rhine-Westphalia is set to become the first German state and one of a handful of European sub-sovereign borrowers to enter the green bond market, after mandating banks on Wednesday to roadshow for its inaugural deal in the format.
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The acquisition of Las Vegas-based International Gaming Technology by the Italian gambling technology company GTech took a step ahead on Tuesday as GTech raised €4.4bn in euros and dollars, in the second biggest European high yield deal so far this year.
