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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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Hong Kong-listed oil company Hilong Holding pushed back the exchange deadline for its 2020 bond for the fourth time this week, leaving only a weekend between the exchange deadline and the notes’ maturity on Monday. -
Chinese real estate developer Zhongliang Holdings Group Co took $250m from a sub-one year bond on Wednesday, prioritising size over price for the deal.
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The Covid-19 crisis continues to test the skills of CLO managers, said speakers at this week’s Leveraged Loan and CLO virtual conference hosted by IMN, with a wider dispersion being seen among managers able to quickly react to loan downgrades and surges in triple-C holdings and deal with failures of overcollateralisation (OC) tests.
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Angus Whelchel, former global head of private capital markets at Barclays, has been hired by US boutique advisory group Moelis & Co to head its private capital markets team.
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Heathrow is asking its high yield creditors to waive covenants it expects to breach this year in a return for a new commitment to a minimum cash level, a boost to coupon payments and a cancellation of any dividends, as it grapples with an 81% dive in earnings.
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Virgin Media’s rapid-fire refinancing binge continued on Wednesday with a new high yield bond offering, the fifth so far this month, part of what the company says is a “strategy of refinancing ahead of the curve and maximising tenor across all credit silos”. But the refi binge, which has seen more than $2.5bn-equivalent issued this month, has cost the company dearly, as many of the bonds it is terming out are inside their call dates — meaning it must pay the “make-whole” cost to redeem them.
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