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Resets and refis prominent in pipeline as loan market softens, offering respite from repricing wave
Dasha Sobornova joins from Akin Gump with experience across asset classes
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Kroll Bond Rating Agency has hired staffers from S&P Global Ratings and Goldman Sachs to head a new foray into CLO ratings, as other agencies struggle to keep up with the record pace of issuance in the red hot asset class. -
The spending bill signed into law by President Trump on Friday contained a provision that allows business development companies to double their permitted leverage, a move that could heat up an increasingly aggressive lending environment in middle market corporate debt.
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Strong demand for European leveraged loans is driving ratings pressure on European CLO tranches, according to a statement from S&P Global Ratings at the end of last week.
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Uber blazed a trail in the leveraged finance market this week, brushing off a fatal car crash involving one of its self-driven cars to close a bigger than expected self-syndicated leveraged loan at a spread inside of the initial price range.
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Stephan Paras, the former European and US head of leveraged loans at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, has joined the investment committee at middle market lending firm Star Mountain Capital.
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US retail funds have been pouring cash into the floating rate leveraged loan market in the last month, ahead of Wednesday’s 25bp rate hike by the Federal Open Market Committee.
