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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 board of BCA Marketplace, a UK secondhand car dealer, announced on Wednesday that it would recommend a £1.9bn offer from TDR Capital to take the company private. The deal marks a coup for Jefferies, which is lead financial adviser to BCA, a role it won following the hire of a UK M&A team from HSBC last year led by Philip Noblet. -
Investcorp announced Wednesday night that it will acquire middle market investment firm CM Investment Partners, marking the $26bn investment manager’s entry into the US middle market.
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Non-bank lenders achieving the ‘simple, transparent and standardised’ (STS) designation on their securitizations since the regulatory framework came into being at the start of the year have come mainly from the car industry. They and other alternative lending institutions are having a tough time with the new rules, despite the success of recent deals, writes Tom Brown.
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The auction to determine the credit default swap payouts over the safeguard proceedings of Rallye was held on Thursday, and gave protection buyers an 87.5% payout. The supermarket holding company’s bonds had slid roughly five points in the week before, to trade at around 15 ahead of the auction, but settlement interest was all on one side, pushing the final price to 12.5.
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Hexion, an Ohio-based speciality chemicals company, has raised $1.65bn in financing across loans and bonds, giving it a new capital structure and allowing it to repay its debtor-in-possession loan as it emerges from Chapter 11 protection. Dollar investors proved stronger supporters than euro buyers for the firm, as it cut down the planned euro tranche.
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Gansu Provincial Highway Aviation Tourism Investment Group Co priced a $300m bond that was over eight times covered at its peak, in yet another busy week for issuance from Chinese local government financing vehicles (LGFVs).
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