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RBC Capital Markets has tapped a CLO director at Citi to lead its CLO structuring desk. -
The UK's High Court delivered a ringing endorsement of the country's new restructuring regime this week in a landmark ruling on gym chain Virgin Active, showing that companies have a new route other than CVAs to cut their debts to landlords. Silas Brown and Owen Sanderson report.
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CLO refi and reset activity has departed from its usual forms, with some managers resetting a single deal in a limited time frame, while others take the opportunity to switch tranches from fixed to floating, or focus refi efforts on a limited number of tranches. Managers don't want to lose the opportunity presented by current market conditions to save costs, and are seeking different solutions to optimise their structures.
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Finnish healthcare provider Mehiläinen increased the size of its ESG-linked refi loan from €300m to €1.06bn, refinancing not just the second lien loan, as originally intended, but the company’s entire first lien capital structure. Leads HSBC and Jefferies also tightened the margin range from launch levels.
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Commercial landlords in the UK are angry about gym chain Virgin Active’s restructuring plan, and with good reason. Many of them have lost out heavily, while senior secured creditors got away with little more than an amend and extend.
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A group of nine issuers from Asia sold green or sustainability dollar bonds this week, propelling volumes to new highs. A large part of the debt business in the region is still focused on green and the environment, but there is growing urgency to pay more attention to governance standards. Morgan Davis reports.
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