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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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Chinese property developer Yango Group Co priced a $150m tap of a recent two year bond on Thursday at a level that 62.5bp inside where the original bond landed less than a month ago. -
Profit Reach International, an investment vehicle owned by Chinese billionaire Shen Guojun, has closed a $550m refinancing, attracting 12 participants during syndication.
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The Alternative Reference Rates Committee (ARRC) issued recommendations for Libor replacement at the end of April, indicating that it believes the market should effectively self-regulate when it comes to picking a new benchmark for floating rate debt contracts.
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Tesco issued a new £400m six year bond, to fund a tender for bonds from eight older issues, and saw blow-out demand of £3.3bn, as the UK supermarket heads back towards investment grade status.
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Eir, the Irish telecoms company, has won strong demand and tight pricing for its combined bond and loan deal, allowing it to increase the size by another €100m — and pay out a larger dividend to its owner, groups controlled by French billionaire Xavier Niel. One of these groups, Iliad, has just emerged from a costly fight for rights to the 5G mobile spectrum in Italy, leading it to consider asset sales and other routes to raise cash.
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The European high yield market is experiencing a post-Easter resurrection, with six new issues announced after the London market returned to work on Tuesday. While some of these trades were the lower-rated acquisition bonds investors having been crying out for, the bond market is still largely stuck with deals too long, too tight, too risky or too large for first lien loans.
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