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Deal rules and slow primary market make ramping up deals difficult
◆ Supranationals and agencies prepare to achieve the previously unthinkable ◆ Leveraged loans versus private credit and their effect on CLOs ◆ A new dawn for dollar covered bonds and UK equity market structure
◆ Schaeffler attracts €5.8bn peak book… ◆ …while SPIE finds €2.8bn of orders ◆ Strong demand allows for strong price moves
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Three out of four bondholder groups have voted in favour of Norwegian Air Shuttle’s rescue package, but the deal is stuck on the plans for the issuer's euro secured notes, which only won a 62% approval rate — below the two-thirds majority needed. -
The European CLO market is back in business, a few weeks on from the restart of primary issuance in the US. Both markets are moving cautiously to get back on track in the pandemic economy, tweaking deal formats, shortening reinvestment periods and looking at deal documents to see where there is room for flexibility to manoeuvre through a historic period of distress.
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Norwegian Air Shuttle improved the terms of an offer to bondholders for a second time this week, just hours before the deadline for its creditors to agree on a restructuring plan that it hopes will eventually unlock a state rescue.
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Lloyds Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland have decided not to charge clients an arranging fee when lending via the UK’s Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS), while HSBC will not charge any early repayment fees.
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Deutsche Bank has regained its number one spot in its home market, but it was its traditional investment banking business that shone rather than investments made as part of the firm’s new Germany-focused strategy, writes David Rothnie.
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Coffee machine company Selecta’s high yield bonds dropped 24 points on Wednesday after it released awful numbers for the fourth quarter of last year — sending leverage shooting up well before any coronavirus impact. It was the first company in Europe to announce it had raised new super-senior debt from its sponsor, KKR Credit, which injected a €50m liquidity facility into the capital structure in March.
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