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High yield bond issuance is coming thick and fast in Europe, with primary supply not limited to straightforward Covid-proof credits, but also coming from highly levered firms feeling the pinch of the pandemic restrictions.
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Swedish alarm firm Verisure underlined improved leveraged finance conditions when it returned to market for a refinancing. The company was the first European high yield issuer out after the coronavirus crisis, with a tentative floating rate note in April, but its latest refi proved to be a blowout, with a huge size increase and pricing through talk.
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Bitė, a mobile, broadband and pay-TV firm in the Baltic region, and a portfolio company of Providence Private Equity, priced a dividend recap and refinancing of its whole capital structure this week, funded by a dual-tranche high-yield bond offering. This marks the company’s return to bond markets after nearly five years of financing through loans.
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Axiom Alternative Investments has launched a new long/short global high yield fund, following the hire of Gilles Frisch as a portfolio manager last year, targeting the opportunities that will come through at the end of this credit cycle. -
The European Leveraged Finance Association has called for better transparency in high yield covenant packages, arguing that clarity is crucial for pricing risk. The call comes shortly after one of the largest covenant climb-downs in recent market history, when lead banks on ThyssenKrupp Elevator stripped many of the most controversial terms from the €8bn financing.
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Philippine issuers are flooding the market with dollar bonds, giving investors an unprecedented selection of deals from the country. There is plenty more to come. Morgan Davis reports.
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