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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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Refinitiv’s 2018 high yield bond was slammed for having the weakest ever investor protections. Now another Blackstone consortium is about to use that deal as a template in the £5.9bn public-to-private buyout of theme park giant Merlin. The financing package also features protection against short-selling debt activists — an activity associated with Blackstone unit GSO Capital. Karoliina Liimatainen reports. -
The largest second lien tranche since the financial crisis, a Sfr1.3bn-equivalent deal, was placed to just five accounts, GlobalCapital understands, supporting EQT, Luxina and PSP’s $10bn buyout of Nestlé Skin Health. The big second lien tickets illustrate the depth of demand for the product, which has been buoyed by the cash raised for direct lending opportunities — and supports the deal through senior syndication.
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CVC Credit Partners and BNP Paribas Asset Management are two CLO managers preparing to price their latest CLOs, bringing broadly syndicated deals to the market without help from Japanese anchor investment. Both well-established managers are having little trouble finding interest in their latest deals, as European and US investors rush in to fill the gap.
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The UK government launched its Green Finance Strategy this week, including a broad range of measures to stimulate awareness of climate change and other environmental problems in financial markets, and ease the flow of capital to green projects. But observers criticised the government for not setting out a plan on how to finance the transition to a zero emissions economy.
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Société Générale’s revamp of its investment bank, first announced in April, will refocus the bank’s financing efforts around sponsor-driven business, as corporate clients are not steering enough fees towards the bank to pay for its balance sheet commitments.
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Outstanding dollar bonds from troubled Chinese state-owned commodity trader Tewoo Group hit new lows this week after the company’s subsidiary allegedly missed onshore loan payments.
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