Credit Suisse
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US speciality chemical products holding company Platform will buy UK firm Alent for £1.35bn using a $1.9bn bridge loan from Credit Suisse. -
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Friday was a great day for Flow Traders to make its stockmarket debut. You might almost think they were traders. The Euro Stoxx 50 index opened 1.6% up as hopes rose of a debt deal for Greece, and doubled that gain by the afternoon. With that wind in its sails, Flow Traders zoomed up 14%.
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Leveraged loan market participants were in uncertain mood this week. Greek volatility made its mark on the market but not all deals have gone wide as a result.
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Credit Suisse is set to print the latest in succession of Samurai trades, as European banks turn to the size and tight pricing offered by yen, a stark contrast to a euro market paralysed by the Greece crisis, writes Virginia Furness.
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Vistra, the European corporate and fund services provider, has been marketing a $700m acquisition loan in New York and London, despite uncertain levfin markets.
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A pair of public sector borrowers were able to place larger than planned dollar benchmarks on Thursday.
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Vistra, the European corporate and fund services provider, is marketing its $700m acquisition loan in New York, after showing the deal to London investors on Wednesday.
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Alok Industries signed its $475m export performance bank guarantee-backed (EPBG) loan on June 30, with a total of eight banks committing to the transaction, following a four month syndication process.
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Credit Suisse and UBS stormed to the top of the bookrunner charts for senior FIG bonds in the first half, but their rivals will be more worried about the dive in overall volumes across the market versus a year earlier.
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Citic CLSA Securities hired corporate finance specialist Wu Gang for its London team. The appointment comes as the company, formed from a 2013 acquisition, tries to take advantage of the M&A opportunities between China and Europe.
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Nomad Foods, the renamed cash shell Nomad Holdings that has bought Iglo Birds Eye, raised around $321m of new equity on Wednesday in an accelerated bookbuild.
