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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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The German private nursing care group Alloheim Senioren-Residenzen is out with a new leveraged loan offering to fund its buyout by Nordic Capital. This loan is among the first deals to be lined up to close in February, as hopes build of a surge of merger and acquisition driven borrowing. -
Institutional investors are playing a bigger role in alternative asset classes, a BlackRock survey showed on Thursday, increasing the chance of larger deals. EQT Credit’s latest investment was a case in point.
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High yield borrowers were roadshowing €3bn of mostly lower rated bonds this week. Although there is appetite for riskier paper, investors say, demand is expected to be selective.
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Market participants hoping for a surge of large leveraged buyout financings in 2018 have been rewarded already by the arrival of seveal deals. One of them is the funding to finance French engineering services firm Altran's purchase of its peer Aricent.
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With issuers already lining up €6bn of new deals in January, leveraged loan bankers are confident that the European market is set for another booming year in 2018.
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Bosal, the Dutch manufacturer of industrial equipment, is selling its tow bar division to private equity firm TowerBrook. EQT has provided the financing for the acquisition.
