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  • The leveraged loan market has taken a leg wider as coronavirus fears sweep the capital markets. But the primary markets are sucking up the larger discounts and fatter margins and forging ahead, with Polynt-Reichold, Genesis Care, and Inspired Education pressing on and printing deals this week.
  • Pollen Street Capital and the board of an investment trust it advises are locked in a fight over the potential sale of the investment trust to Waterfall Asset Management, with the board describing Pollen Street’s data room as “of no meaningful use whatsoever and a complete waste of time”.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has launched a take-private bid for UK based healthcare marketing and PR firm Huntsworth, bidding an enterprise value of £524m for the company. The debt financing for the deal is a $295m term loan and a £35m revolver provided by Royal Bank of Canada.
  • After a furious start to the year, leveraged finance bankers are now worrying about what’s next for new money leveraged buyouts, with few corporate carve-outs on the horizon and a plethora of political pain points to keep sponsors on the sidelines. Owen Sanderson reports.
  • Australian healthcare business Genesis Care is borrowing A$1.4bn-equivalent to fund the buyout of 21st Century Oncology’s US business, giving loan investors a rare chance to put money to work at a spread north of 400bp.
  • Credit Suisse has started general syndication of more than $5bn of debt funding EQT and Digital Colony’s acquisition of Zayo, one of last year’s largest LBOs. The dollar market will take the lion’s share of the acquisition loan, with $4.235bn of first lien on offer, but even the euro tranche is substantial, at $825m-equivalent.