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Even leveraged deals still being underwritten, though banks are selective
Liquidity event at American manager comes at fraught time for industry
Major sectors in leveraged loans are trading down, making shrewd credit selection vital
Deal could include $950m of bonds
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General Electric’s distributed power unit began marketing a $1.8bn leveraged buyout loan. The deal has high net leverage and tight pricing guidance, two of the possible risks in the market underlined by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) this week. -
The lengthy complaint about HSBC management drafted, purportedly, by investment bankers within the firm must be taken seriously and investigated, if its new CEO John Flint wants to win the confidence of the rest of the staff and shareholders.
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Leveraged finance investors in the US and Europe have scrambled for the bonds and loans backing leveraged buyouts of Thomson Reuters’ Financial & Risk business and Dutch chemical company AkzoNobel this week, with demand driving pricing tighter despite aggressive covenant packages. David Bell and Victor Jimenez report.
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US department store Neiman Marcus’s unsecured bonds and term loan have dipped in trading this week after the company said it was moving its fastest growing online business, MyTheresa, out of the reach of lenders.
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US investors have scrambled for the bonds and loans backing leveraged buyouts of Thomson Reuters’ Financial & Risk business and Dutch chemical company AkzoNobel, with pricing coming tighter than initial thoughts despite aggressive covenant packages.
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Scott Snell, former co-head of BlackRock’s US CLO business, has joined Tetragon Credit Income (TCIP) as a CLO portfolio manager, with the firm planning to expand the range of its investments in CLOs.
