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As funds swell, pressure to deploy rises and managers can stray from their expertise
The era of pure-play private equity is over. Banks are pulling different divisions together to serve the complex needs of global asset managers
Specialist moves after 18 years in the market
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A rallying equity market has tripped up the joint tender offer Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman made for German internet company Scout24, leaving leveraged finance bankers and investors mourning the loss of one of the few sizeable new money deals set to hit the market this year. -
Switzerland’s Transocean has amended its bank revolving credit facility to increase the size to $1.36bn, with the fallen angel offshore contract drilling services provider keeping an additional $140m in the wings on the undrawn facility.
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Asset manager Pemberton has opened an office in Denmark to expand its European business.
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The looming US-China trade war is stalking European corporate credit markets, though it has not yet made a full-on assault on confidence. Investment grade bond players blamed a quiet start to the week on it, and it seems now to be finally being noticed in high yield land, where opportunistic issues have dried up.
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Wynne Comer has left Bank of America Merrill Lynch after 12 years and will be taking on a role at AGL Credit Management, the new private credit firm opened in March by CIFC-founder Peter Gleysteen.
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Lenders were meeting on Tuesday ahead of a loan to fund the purchase of Euroports, which operates shipping terminals in Antwerp, Ghent, and Rostock, by a consortium including two Belgian sovereign wealth funds.
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