Jefferies LLC

BMC Software, the US IT firm, has revealed the loan leg of the funding for its leveraged buyout by KKR, a $4.4bn facility in dollars and euros. It is the first multi-billion leveraged loan deal for four weeks, after a battery of large offerings early in May.

Investment manager Tritax is considering launching a new real estate investment trust focused on logistics property in continental Europe, to capitalise on the success of Tritax Big Box Reit, the UK-focused fund that launched in 2013 and is now a FTSE 250 company.

Jefferies has hired a veteran M&A banker from Deutsche Bank to join its power and infrastructure utilities team.

Avast, the Czech cyber security company, has set the terms of its London IPO, valuing it at £3.2bn at the top of the range.

McGraw-Hill Global Education has obtained a payment in kind (PIK) term loan from funds advised by Guggenheim Partners and Ares to help refinance its 2019 PIK toggle notes, five months after it pulled a PIK toggle bond aimed at achieving the same goal.

Tritax Big Box REIT, the UK real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on “big box” distribution centres, has raised £155m ($218.31m) of growth capital and was covered in excess of its deal size.

The EMEA IPO market is fully underway again after the Easter break, with bankers fresh from the Courchevel ski slopes or St Tropez sunbeds to provide investors with some fresh IPO powder. But high volumes means buyers have the ability to be selective.

Jefferies owes its success to industry expertise and an entrepreneurial culture that keeps its bankers at the coalface, writes David Rothnie.

With dead eyes, the procession of defeated beasts shuffled forwards, waiting for the axe to fall… no, not Deutsche Bank’s fixed income traders, facing yet another round of restructuring and redundancies but a possible scene from the activities of National Beef, the business that, until recently, shared a corporate roof with Jefferies. Both were part of the conglomerate Leucadia Corporation, which also owned auto dealership Garcadia with the Garff family.

Leucadia National Corporation, the holding company of Jefferies, has sold 48% of its beef business, all of its automotive equity interests, and changed the name of the company to Jefferies Financial Group — a set of moves which ought to free the firm to take advantage of merchant banking opportunities, while giving investors a clearer business to focus on.

This week, Elysium Healthcare successfully refinanced the loan that backed its leveraged buyout by BC Partners, getting a bigger size and better pricing three months after the original deal was met with a lukewarm reception from investors.

Books closed on the IPO of Siemens Healthineers, the healthcare technology division of Siemens, on Thursday lunchtime, with the base deal valued at €3.65bn and the company at €28bn.