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In recent weeks, private credit and direct lenders have brought more certainty to borrowers as capital markets were roiled by tariff chaos
Banks already working on deals in the industrials and chemicals sectors
As Ares raises the largest direct lending fund, Goldman Sachs reorganises to serve the trend
Sole bookrunner Morgan Stanley gets deal multiple times covered
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The credit arms of private equity firms CVC and EQT have joined efforts to provide Paymentsense, the UK card payment services firm, with a refinancing unitranche facility — a form of financing that could increase next year. -
Chinese travel firm Ctrip has bought Edinburgh-based Skyscanner for £1.4bn, adding to the growing list of UK tech companies being sold to foreign investors.
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The European Central Bank has laid out its plans to regulate leveraged lending at banks it supervises, a move that could curb aggressive deal structures and give banks a way to resist pressure for low lending standards from their private equity clients.
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Several slated buyout transactions now have loans in the market, yet few investors are upbeat on the immediate prospects for a return to higher yields and fairer values.
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The repricing trend in the leveraged loan market is continuing, undisturbed by the onset of new money offerings, with many of the latest deals cutting costs and underpinning large dividend recapitalisations.
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The leveraged finance market has been met this week by a raft of mergers and acquisitions, with four deals announced and several major leveraged buyouts poised for action. Considerable ground needs to be made up, however, if new paper is to offset the glut of repricings that have choked the market in recent months.
