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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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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. -
Strong markets on Monday morning helped Barclays and Jefferies launch the long-awaited bridge financing for PureGym’s takeover of Fitness World, one of the last pre-Covid facilities yet to come out in the capital markets.
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The coronavirus pandemic has subjected the European leveraged loan market, where ‘cov-lite’ documents reign supreme, to a brutal test. The early results are positive.
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Cerberus Capital Management auctioned off one of the largest ever portfolios of UK mezzanine mortgage bonds on Thursday, following a deterioration in the terms available in the ABS repo market after the Covid crisis made it uneconomic to continue to hold the deeply subordinated and risky positions.
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Permira opted to rescue its debt purchasing portfolio company Lowell from the restructuring that many thought was imminent, with the largest slug of equity support any sponsor has injected in Europe since the coronavirus pandemic began. Covid-19 has crushed cashflows for some debt purchasers, but next year should be a bumper year for NPL buying — for those firms with cash to do so, writes Owen Sanderson.
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The €2.6bn financing for Adevinta’s purchase of eBay Classifieds looks set to be a blowout success, with sharp tightening across all tranches underlining the bid for quality credits enduring limited pandemic impact. The deal’s double-B rating helps attract rating-sensitive investors who have seen their portfolios pummelled this year by Covid-related downgrades.
