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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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Friday’s confirmation that the Issa brothers, backed by TDR Capital, had won the auction for UK supermarket Asda, catapulted them into the super league of borrowers in European leveraged credit — the handful of entrepreneurs whose appetite for debt surpasses market appetite to lend to a single capital structure. -
Engineering Group, an Italian IT services company, has returned to market after pulling a deal in June, for a second attempt at taking out the buyout bridge for its acquisition by Bain Capital and Neuberger Berman.
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Technical changes to the UK government’s large business support scheme open the way for private equity-owned firms to draw on the facility, but limits on dividends and new indebtedness may still discourage sponsors from using the scheme.
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Payment in kind notes and preference shares will likely play an increased role in new leveraged buyout structures, as sponsors seek to bridge the gap to ever more stretched equity valuations against a backdrop of depressed earnings.
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Bain Capital has hired a new global head of ESG with extensive experience of oil and gas investments.
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Dutch DIY retailer Maxeda unveiled a refinancing on Monday morning which will test the market’s appetite for taking out triple-C rated bonds at tighter levels, with a €400m offering to redeem its existing €475m 6.125% 2022s.
