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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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Refresco’s $1.25bn acquisition of Cott’s drinks bottling business raises monopoly concerns, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said this week. But market sources see a quick fix ahead. -
Sweden-based EQT has provided funding to Abac, a private equity firm in Catalonia, to invest further in local portfolio company Metalcaucho, which makes spare parts for cars. This was despite political unrest in the region.
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Dealogic could be one of the last leveraged loan deals to close in 2017. With allocations of its dividend recapitalisation loans due on Friday, the deal is likely to cap what has been an all-time record year of issuance in the European leveraged loan market.
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Lowell, the UK-German debt collector, will seek funding for its northern European expansion in the high yield bond market, as it buys Intrum’s branches in the Scandinavia region, Finland and Estonia.
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European credit funds posted multi-billion inflows this year, as a wave of new investors searched for yield. EQT’s oversubscribed new Credit Opportunities III fund showed on Monday that the market is still pulling in cash to put to work in 2018.
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The sterling high yield market is set to start 2018 in shape, with investors and bankers expecting strong supply and demand. Pure Gym, the UK low cost gym operator, could be one of its first issuers.
