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Sole bookrunner Morgan Stanley gets deal multiple times covered
Trade was oversubscribed in under 20 minutes
In highly concentrated book, top 20 investors take 90%
The relaunched IPO was cancelled after leads attempted to reduce the transaction to around €300m
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Sterling high yield bond issuance this year has now surpassed four times 2016’s figure. This week, new borrower Pinewood Studios appeared on stage.
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The leveraged loan market is approaching Christmas on course to beat last year’s issuance, particularly for financing of new buyouts.
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German oil refinery Heide chose one of the high yield market's quietest weeks of the year to fund a €200m dividend to its shareholder. Investors bought it, but some bankers spotted a steep premium in the pricing.
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Dividend recapitalisation deals, such as the ones ChemicaInvest and Ten Cate launched this week, are on the rise. The move, considered aggressive by leveraged loan investors, is nevertheless becoming more common and accepted in the present issuer’s market.
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Two leveraged loan deals in the market this week, for Tele Columbus and PlusServer, have both had their margins tightened by 25bp, suggesting that market participants who predicted early this week that spreads were going to start widening had spoken too soon.
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Dutch polymer and resins group ChemicaInvest increased the size of its loan deal at the tight end of guidance on Wednesday, as it repriced its old debt and paid a dividend to its sponsors CVC and DSM.