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Direct lenders take the initiative as banks step back
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
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Leveraged buyouts are making a comeback in the European high yield market in October, with the new €1.3bn note for CVC’s acquisition of Italian pharmaceutical firm Recordati the latest example. -
Most European leveraged loan deals in October are achieving savings of 25bp and more over price talk, with demand on the rise. The loan offering to fund Advent’s buyout of Distributed Power confirmed this trend, as it tightened margins and issue discounts.
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Nep Group, a US producer of broadcast programmes, gave price talk below 400bp for all first lien loans in the financing for its buyout by Carlyle, a further sign that margins have tightened in the leveraged loan market.
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Warner Music and Playtech announced new bond offerings with a combined €730m volume on Monday, less than the latest weekly inflows for high yield retail funds. But Bilfinger pulled its deal.
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General Electric’s distributed power unit began marketing a $1.8bn leveraged buyout loan. The deal has high net leverage and tight pricing guidance, two of the possible risks in the market underlined by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) this week.
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Spain’s largest department store group, El Corte Inglés, picked a busy week to roadshow its first rated issue. But its bonds will be listed in Dublin, despite efforts from the Spanish financial regulator to force a domestic bond listing in Madrid.
