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  • The second slice of the ThyssenKrupp Elevator financing hit the market on Wednesday, with €4bn of bonds announced across secured and unsecured tranches in dollars and euros, joining the €3bn of loans earlier this week as part of the package to fund Europe’s largest LBO in a decade.
  • In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the speciality lending landscape in Europe could see a shakeout, as financing becomes scarcer and leverage terms tougher, forcing thinly capitalised loan originators to seek extra funds or put themselves up for sale, according to a report from securitization specialists Integer Advisors.
  • Banks sitting on the €8bn of bridge loans to finance Advent and Cinven’s takeover of ThyssenKrupp Elevator (TKE) have finally launched the first part of the deal into public syndication, with the announcement on Monday of a €3.05bn euro and dollar term loan 'B'.
  • After weeks of slim pickings in high yield and leveraged loan capital markets, Monday brought a flood of new issue announcements, with MasMovil’s take-private loan, a multi-currency loan from cruise company Carnival, AMS’s bridge for the takeover of Osram, an add-on for IFCO, and a high yield debut in the morning. But that was all hors d'oeuvres to the main course: the long-awaited ThyssenKrupp Elevator bridge in the afternoon.
  • J. Christopher Flowers, the eminent private equity investor, sees a lot of potential for new deals in European finance in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic.
  • Sweden’s EQT, the private equity company, has signed the largest ever ESG-linked subscription credit facility, raising hopes that the structure could become more common among PE firms.