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Trade was oversubscribed in under 20 minutes
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EQT achieved a strong response from investors on Friday when it launched the first sustainability-linked bond from a private equity firm, and only the second from a financial company. The €500m deal is tied to greenhouse gas emission cuts and gender diversity metrics.
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Golden Goose, the Italian shoemaker bought by Permira just before the coronavirus pandemic struck Europe, is looking for €470m of senior secured bonds in what may be the last repayment of a bridge facility signed before Covid. Hung bridges for leveraged buyouts were a serious concern for banks at the height of the pandemic but due to governments and central banks supporting the financial markets, lenders sold down the positions successfully — mostly much earlier than Golden Goose, writes Silas Brown. -
French optician Afflelou is looking to sell senior secured high yield notes, in order to pay back state loans and refinance outstanding debt.
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Banks backing the successful Allied Universal bid for UK security company G4S are set to split around $100m in financing fees for backing the deal, with Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley in line for the lion’s share of the profits, as the $6.3bn eight tranche syndication is priced and the firm is delisted.
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Europe’s high grade corporate bond market saw an abundance of mandates on Tuesday, suggesting that the bullish hopes from some corners of the banking world for May’s primary market might be fulfilled.
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EQT has launched the €1.525bn loan leg of the buy-out funding for its purchase of Cerba Healthcare, a France-based chain of medical laboratories, indicating that the flow of acquisition deals is still running fast, with multibillion deals including Birkenstock and Lonza Specialty Ingredients closing last week, and G4S slated for this week.
