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In highly concentrated book, top 20 investors take 90%
The relaunched IPO was cancelled after leads attempted to reduce the transaction to around €300m
Relief that the first European IPO after summer has grown in the aftermarket, though not without large concessions
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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. -
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.
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Market euphoria following news of Pfizer’s potential Covid-19 vaccine has helped underwriting banks dodge a likely loss on one of the hardest bridge loans to shift all year, with the bond now guided six points higher than at launch and nearly three times covered.
