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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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Telepizza bonds sold off by around 30 points on Monday on news that the company had appointed restructuring advisers, available liquidity was sharply lower than the market had expected, and the company needed around €100m of new money to stay in business — slightly less than the €130m dividend it paid last year after KKR took the Spanish pizza chain private. -
Bonds issued by Spanish gambling company Cirsa have rallied on expectations of support from owner Blackstone, after it disclosed on its investor call that affiliates of the private equity firm had bought €120m of its PIK notes in the market — even though the purchase does nothing to boost the firm’s liquidity profile.
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Some financial sponsors are said to be trying to purchase loans from their competitors’ portfolio companies, as an opportunistic way to benefit from the coronavirus-driven disruption. But the European loan market’s restrictive transfer provisions make this a legal high-wire act.
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Theme park group Parques Reunidos has raised an extra €200m from a "select group of existing investors", as it seeks to combat the coronavirus-impaired operating environment that has shut many of its water park locations across Europe.
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While the US high yield market has delivered a deluge of secured rescue bonds to bail out airlines, cruise lines, car rental firms, hotels and other "zero revenue" virus casualties, European high yield has stayed sedate, cautious, and stuck to the safest sectors. Can the European bond market rise to rescue financing?
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Rubis Terminal looks set to make the first European high yield debut since the coronavirus crisis hit, announcing a new €410m issue to fund a minority investment by I Squared Capital. Business has boomed at the company, which operates bulk liquid storage, thanks to the collapsing oil price.
