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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
Sole bookrunner Morgan Stanley gets deal multiple times covered
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The European Leveraged Finance Association, a trade body of investors, has slammed terms in the $1bn buyout bond for Ancestry.com which cap investor voting rights, hoping to stop the new feature in its tracks and prevent sponsors including it in European transactions. -
BC Partners-owned advanced ceramics company CeramTec has issued an add-on to its term loan 'B', raising another €175m — enough to push its senior secured rating down into the single-B category. But the opportunistic move to raise new cash will give the company firepower for future M&A.
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Mid-market firm CapVest won the auction to buy software provider Datasite with a unitranche loan in October, and it is now taking out the senior layer with a public syndication to firm up the financing on better terms. It's a deal that combines the strengths of public and private funding.
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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.
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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.
