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Direct lenders take the initiative as banks step back
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
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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. -
Klöckner Pentaplast (KP) has rounded off an extraordinary comeback against the backdrop of the pandemic, successfully refinancing its capital structure and taking out PIK notes that were quoted in the low 30s in April last year.
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Barclays has launched an €840m loan that forms the initial buy-out debt funding the takeover of UK supermarket chain Asda by the Issa brothers and TDR Capital. The bulk of the £3.5bn debt stack will follow in bond formats, with £2.25bn of senior secured and £500m of unsecured notes on offer.
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The extraordinary price action in GameStop, AMC Entertainment and others' shares last week is surely leading nervous CFOs all over the world to get an at-the-money rights issue signed off, in case they win the attention of Reddit's WallStreetBets crowd and can raise equity at giddy multiples. But this is like hoping for a winning lottery ticket. For firms in the most Covid-addled sectors, a private approach will be their best shot at financing a turnaround.
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A bond for French jewellery store operator Thom Group showed that investors can digest debt from lesser loved sectors like retail, though the decision to opt for bonds to refinance its existing loan capital structure might have been prompted by the greater taste for adventure typically seen in the public market.
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Direct lenders and debt funds have always pitched themselves as being more suitable partners for businesses than banks, bondholders, or other institutional lenders. When the going gets tough, they can be quicker to waive covenants and offer new money than a less concentrated creditor group. But this also puts them in pole position to take the keys from a business should things go wrong — which we may see happen this year.
