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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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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. -
Stark Group’s strong performance amid the pandemic is a crucial selling point for investors looking at buying the €1.35bn loan to fund its purchase by CVC, which agreed to buy the firm from Lone Star in January. The group has added an ESG ratchet to the facility, an increasingly common structure this year, with a margin stepdown if it cuts greenhouse gas emissions.
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The financing for the Issa brothers and TDR Capital’s buyout of Asda was priced on Wednesday, breaking multiple records in the process and showing that, for the right issuer in the right conditions, the sterling market can shoulder the bulk of a multi-billion LBO package. Owen Sanderson reports.
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Asda has definitively demonstrated the sterling high yield market’s capacity to do size, garnering more than £8bn of orders across the two tranches of its buy-out financing. Investors bemoaning their likely miserable allocations, however, may find some cold comfort in a refi issue from fellow UK supermarket Iceland, announced on Wednesday.
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CVC’s secondary buyout of building material firm Stark Group will crank leverage back up at the group, following a tough year when previous owner Lone Star battened down the hatches and paid down debt during an initial scramble for liquidity when the coronavirus pandemic struck.
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Asda has launched the largest ever sterling high yield bond, and the largest single tranche in the whole European high yield market, to fund the takeover of the UK supermarket group by the Issa Brothers and TDR Capital.
