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LBO financing includes $5.75bn term loan to be priced early next week
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Even leveraged deals still being underwritten, though banks are selective
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Dyson has become the first UK company to sell private placements in the past month, as the coronavirus complicates primary issuance and the market instead focuses on amendments to existing deals. Sources said the UK manufacturer succeeded because it was realistic over the price it would have to pay. -
Aircraft lessors have become popular borrowers in the US private placement market but coronavirus pandemic has thrown up a whole new magnitude of risk for the industry and many will be looking to amend the terms of their deals. Many market participants predict that the conversations between borrowers and investors will be tricky.
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Spain’s El Corte Inglés has signed a €1.311bn short-term revolving credit facility, with the department store returning to the loan market twice in quick succession to make sure it has the cash to ride out the next year.
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Whitbread, the UK hotel and restaurant company behind Premier Inn, has amended a clause in its debt documentation which could have left it liable for technical default. One source said several companies may have to go through a similar amendment process.
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Logan Property Holdings has joined a few Chinese real estate companies in the offshore loan market, seeking a HK$2bn ($258m) borrowing.
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BMW has raised €200m from a single investor in the Schuldschein market, according to several market sources. Arrangers are talking with Schuldschein investors to gauge appetite for German auto manufacturers as the Covid-19 pandemic wreaks havoc on corporate earnings.
