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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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The buyout bonds for Merlin Entertainments and Kantar, backed by Blackstone and Bain, will set new standards for European issuers. If the investors strike down the "net short" clauses — as they did in an earlier Inmarsat deal — the sponsors may give up on the controversial strategy to battle hedge funds with large CDS positions. -
UBS names levfin head — Mizuho finds four high yield bankers — Fintech firm Nivaura gives role to ex-HSBC syndicator
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UBS has appointed Sarah Mackey as head of leveraged finance for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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Low & Bonar has asked its lenders to waive covenant testing on its credit facility, as the UK polymers company battles through a tough trading period and tries to ensure its acquisition by a German rival goes ahead.
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A clutch of traders and sales bankers are joining Mizuho International within fixed income, focusing on high yield, investment grade, securitization and SSA.
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Rates trading desks are seeking owners of triple-A European CLO tranches, because of the value of the embedded Euribor floors, which convert negative Euribor prints to 0%. These can be stripped out and sold to the market, monetising a feature of the bonds that has become sharply more valuable as euro interest rates have plunged this summer.
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