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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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European private equity firms are raising an increasing number of mega-funds this year, according to data and software firm PitchBook. At the same time, their share of high yield bond issuance has almost doubled. -
Private equity firms have bolstered their high yield footprint in European and Nordic issuance, but yield spreads are also running up, according to SEB this week.
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BMC Software was set to print $2bn of triple-C rated bonds this week, as it changes sponsor hands from Bain and Golden Gate to KKR. The new owner was also pushing for some of the loosest covenants in the market.
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The funding for KKR’s acquisition of BMC Software is set to add almost $2bn of high yield bonds in euros and dollars this week, the last portion of a cross-border, multi-billion debt deal that has enlivened the leveraged finance markets.
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The financing for the €1bn acquisition of roofing business Imerys Toiture to Lone Star Funds was revised this week to include a subordinated debt tranche, as levfin investors still active in August pocket riskier but higher yielding paper.
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Europe’s leveraged finance markets are having a hard time slowing down for the traditional summer break. Investors are willing to keep deploying cash and issuers are responding, with several deals scheduled to be priced in the next two weeks.
