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Deal could include $950m of bonds
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Röhm, the renamed Evonik Specialty Chemicals, is back in the market looking to refinance its 2026 €997m term loan 'B' near par, following a surprisingly strong performance through 2020. -
IPO sellers are keen to revive the market in Europe after Deliveroo’s disastrous debut last week. But investors, with the food delivery company’s share price collapse still fresh in their minds, are pushing banks on valuations for new listings, reports Sam Kerr.
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Organon, the spin-off from US pharma company Merck, has launched a bond leg of its financing, which will establish the unit as a separate firm with its own capital structure, while funding a $9bn dividend to its former parent. The firm was initially offering $4.5bn-equivalent across secured and unsecured bonds, with a bias to the deeper dollar market, but scaled this up during syndication to allow it to strip out bank debt.
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KPN, the Dutch telecoms company, saw its bond spreads swing out on Thursday, on renewed reports that private equity firms are lining up to buy the company.
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Record levels of resets in the CLO market on both sides of the Atlantic are helping NorinChukin Bank, once the anchor investor for many triple-A tranches, slim down its investment portfolio in the asset class. Fortunately, new big buyers are stepping up at the top of the capital structure, and on less onerous terms than NoChu demanded.
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TI Fluid Systems, an auto parts company, is marketing its first unsecured debt, a €600m eight year non-call three, which it plans to use to repay part of its secured debt. It has also launched repricing on this loan, looking to cut margins and reset Euribor floors to market standard levels.
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