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Major sectors in leveraged loans are trading down, making shrewd credit selection vital
Deal could include $950m of bonds
Upper mid-market firms eschew ‘exciting’ stories as cracks emerge in European private credit
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Property company Hengli Group and real estate-focused private equity firm Gaw Capital Partners are taking advantage of a recent regulatory change in Hong Kong to increase a loan closed last year. -
Aston Martin, the British luxury carmaker, has arranged a new financing package to strengthen its balance sheet and cash reserves as it embarks on an ambitious new partnership with German car giant Mercedes-Benz, to start producing electric cars. The bond leg, however, was launched into a difficult market, with the Crossover widening sharply during the first day of bookbuilding.
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UK hospitality companies have been avid users of the US private placement market in the past, but since the coronavirus pandemic began, their businesses have been up-ended, with pubs subject to curfews, social distancing and closures. Fortunately, US PP investors have largely followed bank lenders in opting for leniency, waiving covenants or switching to monitoring minimum levels of liquidity. One firm even managed to raise new debt this summer.
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The coronavirus pandemic has subjected the European leveraged loan market, where ‘cov-lite’ documents reign supreme, to a brutal test. The early results are positive.
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Ion Investment Group is preparing to combine its Dealogic and Mergermarket units under a single corporate entity, Ion Analytics, and refinance the group’s expensive private debt raised last year with a cheaper, broadly syndicated loan package across dollars and euros. A strong performance over the last year should encourage investors to look past the group’s previous struggles with access to the public markets.
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Metals and mining company Vedanta Resources has returned a $1.75bn loan and redeemed a $1.4bn bond after its plan to delist its Indian subsidiary failed to attract enough support.
