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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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  • Trans Retail Indonesia has caused a stir by deciding to structure its new syndicated loan with a relatively rare two-stage participation fee payment. Although not all banks will be wholeheartedly on board, the borrower’s move is savvy under the circumstances.
  • China Aoyuan Group and China Huarong Financial Leasing Co this week raised a combined $388m from bonds that will mature in less than one year, taking advantage of a regulatory loophole to tap the market with short-dated deals.
  • Citigroup has picked Miguel Gabian to be head of its Spain and Portugal markets franchises.
  • Inovyn, an Ineos entity, is marketing an increase, extension and alteration to €1.064bn of term loans, pushing out maturities from 2025 to 2027 and adding another €250m to its debt stack. But the Ba3/BB- rated borrower is not seeking any margin cut. The 200bp spread is already at the effective floor for European leveraged loans.
  • A Dubai World subsidiary has agreed to buy port operator DP World for $13.9bn. The lending desks at Citigroup and Deutsche Bank will be big winners from the debt-fuelled transaction.
  • Although European CLOs have a standard limit on the proportion of covenant-lite loans they buy, the definition of ‘cov-lite’ means that almost every term loan with a revolving credit facility elsewhere in the capital structure remains eligible for purchase by these vehicles.
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