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The era of pure-play private equity is over. Banks are pulling different divisions together to serve the complex needs of global asset managers
Specialist moves after 18 years in the market
New dangers are making deals harder to do, but pricing for the haves is still tight
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Chinese property companies Times China Holdings and Golden Wheel Tiandi Holdings Co took a combined $470m from the bond market on Monday. -
Agile Group Holdings, a Chinese property company, is planning to launch a HK$3.242bn ($418m) refinancing loan into general syndication in early July.
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Zhejiang Changxing Financial Holdings Group Co opted for a club-style execution for its $160m maiden international bond on Monday.
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Chinese property developer Country Garden is in the process of finalising the bookrunner group for a $1.5bn loan, with bankers already confident the deal will see strong interest from lenders.
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CLO managers are in talks with banks in hopes of opening new warehouses in coming weeks, paving the way for a new wave of post-Covid CLO issuance — though firms will be emerging into a markedly more difficult environment, sources say.
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ThyssenKrupp Elevator (TKE) is a deal of superlatives: the largest European high yield debut, the largest European LBO in over a decade, the last LBO before coronavirus, the most levered debut industrial, and the worst-ever covenant package — or at least, it was at first. Three days after launching the bond leg of the deal, the sponsors and leads capitulated, erasing almost every controversial term in the docs — perhaps the largest ever retreat and the biggest investor victory in the long-running war over bond covenants. But it’s too soon for investors to celebrate, as the episode only highlights how damaging this conflict has become.
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