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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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Some large shareholders this week grabbed the opportunity to drain the final dregs of 2013 liquidity, launching block trades for stakes in firms including Bpost, St James’s Place and CAT Oil (see separate stories). With investors’ Christmas parties competing for attention from next week, a final flurry of block trades were squeezed into this week’s business.
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Tarkett, a French flooring company, raised €460m through an oversubscribed IPO on Friday. It is the second private equity exit through an IPO in France in as many months.
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The overnight sale of 35m ProSiebenSat.1 Media shares, priced at €31.53 by bookrunners Bank of America Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan, has boosted the German firm’s performance in an otherwise soggy European equity market.
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Private equity firm Apollo has shed the final remnants in its holding of UK estate agent Countrywide after selling around 22.4m shares, or 10.2% of the company, through an accelerated book building process on Monday night.
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Tarkett, a French flooring company, began bookbuilding on a €540m Paris IPO on Monday.
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The IPO of Merlin Entertainments, the UK theme park operator, raised £957m on Friday, pricing at a premium to its US peers and continuing to trade up through the day.