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  • Debt-laden beauty retailer Douglas is on course to refinance its capital structure at par, an almost unthinkable outcome this time last year, when its unsecured debt was trading in the 30s. Owen Sanderson reports.
  • Complex refis, Covid-hit industries and chunky dividends are the order of the day in levfin, as banks clear out the tougher end of their pipeline in the last weeks of the quarter.
  • New high yield issues announced on Monday offered investors both ends of the environmental spectrum — a green deal for Spanish property developer Via Celere, or a refinancing for oilfield services firm CGG. Real estate group Foncia sits somewhere in between, with a deal funding a dividend to Partners Group.
  • CVC and other owners are putting in €220m of new equity to Douglas, the German beauty chain, ahead of a long-awaited refinancing which will see existing subordinated debt made whole — a nice trade for any buyers that bought in at its lows of 33 last year.
  • Goldman-owned hotel chain B&B Hotels has launched a new loan deal for liquidity, in a test for the loan market's capacity for the next generation of rescue funding in the most distressed industries. The deal comes alongside an equity cheque of €80m.
  • Goldman Sachs has launched the loan backing Bain Capital’s take-private of Ahlstrom-Munksjö into general syndication, looking to sell euro and dollar tranches over the next two weeks, and is likely to follow the loan launch with a secured bond in the coming days.