Deutsche Bank
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Europe's investment grade corporate bond pipeline swelled even more on Thursday, though the primary market stayed silent, as HJ Heinz announced a roadshow to prepare funding for its merger with Kraft.
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Oi, the Brazilian telecoms company, is seeking to issue a €500m high yield bond, and buy back four old euro bonds.
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Chinese online gaming company Giant Interactive, which wrapped up a $850m leveraged buyout less than one year ago, will prepay the money this month.
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As the half year point of 2015 approaches, year to date CEEMEA volumes are at their lowest in six years. No bookrunner has escaped the plunge unscathed. But some have suffered more than others, and a rare few have taken a larger share of a shrinking CEEMEA market.
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Bpifrance managed to increase a 15 year deal from its target size on Wednesday despite rocky government bonds markets, but had to print at the wide end of guidance and initial price thoughts.
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Around €2bn of leveraged loans backing CVC’s acquisition of Douglas, the German perfumery chain, is set to hit the market. Arrangers are lined up and the buy side is craving new deals.
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Minimax Viking, the German fire protection systems provider, has repriced both dollar and euro tranches of €701m-equivalent of leveraged loans within guidance, but at different ends.
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The Gabonese Republic’s recent 10 year note was trading well in the secondary market on Wednesday, after drawing a $2.75bn order book for a $500m print.
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Public sector bond markets are under threat from violent price moves and low liquidity for months to come, warned SSA bankers, after government bonds sold off sharply on Wednesday.
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One of India’s largest port operator Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone is venturing into the international bond market for the first time having started gauging investor sentiment this week.
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Bpifrance is looking to revive the 15 year part of the euro curve, as SSA issuers and bankers heed European Central Bank president Mario Draghi’s advice to endure volatility.
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Nokia is refinancing a €1.5bn credit facility as part of its acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent, in a test of whether its relationship banks support the merger — one that could lead to turbulence around the pricing.