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S&B Industrial Minerals, the Greek mining group, sold its debut high yield bond on Tuesday. The deal finances one of the first leveraged buyouts in Greece since its sovereign debt crisis.
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If there was to be a summer break, no one told the high yield market. Bankers found themselves heading into August with a boom to contend with this week. S&B Minerals priced a €275m deal, while Cabot completed a £100m issue and Cogetech prepared to price its €165m deal on Friday. Two European firms tapped the US high yield market — Alcatel-Lucent for $500m and Swissport for $390m. -
Securitization experts predict no let-up in this year’s resurgence of European collateralized loan obligations after the summer, but they reckon the market could become dominated by big players. The outlook is bleaker for smaller, thinly-capitalised managers who are struggling to get to grips with the European Banking Authority’s risk retention amendments, writes Hugh Leask.
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Dealogic league tables of loans transactions, August 1, 2013.
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Dealogic league tables of total revenue transactions, August 1, 2013. Including Investment Banking, Debt Capital Markets, Equity Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions and Syndicated Loan revenues.
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Leveraged finance bankers will have little summer break this year now that BMC Software, the US enterprise software provider has launched its $4.5bn-equivalent covenant-lite loan package and $1.38bn high yield bond financing.
