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Sole bookrunner Morgan Stanley gets deal multiple times covered
Trade was oversubscribed in under 20 minutes
In highly concentrated book, top 20 investors take 90%
The relaunched IPO was cancelled after leads attempted to reduce the transaction to around €300m
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Europcar is one of the first large companies to restructure with a big state-backed Covid-19 rescue loan in its capital structure. The planned scheme, proposed to creditors last week, leaves the guaranteed loan untouched, which is likely to be the preferred plan for future creditor compacts. -
Goldman Sachs is preparing a £225m high yield bond to take out the acquisition financing for Lone Star’s take-private of UK retirement home developer McCarthy & Stone, according to documents backing the offer.
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Balkan telecoms and cable company United Group slipped into the high yield market on Monday to launch a drive-by bond as it released its earnings results, seizing on strong market conditions to repay its revolving credit facility and part-fund the purchase of Greece’s Forthnet.
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Infopro, a business information company owned by Towerbrook, is offering a new bond this week to clean up some coronavirus pandemic-driven features of its capital structure, including paying back state-guaranteed debt and its drawn revolver. The new bond will also push out debt maturities through by repaying a 2022 bond.
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Market euphoria following news of Pfizer’s potential Covid vaccine created a perfect window for lead banks Barclays and Jefferies to sell out of a bridge loan for UK fitness chain PureGym, which they had held since underwriting it in January — one of the last pre-Covid acquisition loans yet to come to market.
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UK chancellor Rishi Sunak’s announcement that large UK companies, whether listed or private, would need to make climate-related disclosures, was a step towards an important principle — that corporate transparency is a public good, and should be driven by governments, not listing authorities.
