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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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Permira Debt Managers, the direct lending arm of Permira, has closed its third fund at €2.1bn, having already invested over 30% of the fund, including £375m for UK private members club Soho House.
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At a panel discussion this week, a partner at Cinven said investors should trust sponsors to act responsibly, despite protection for debt investors disappearing in deal documentation. -
VFS Global, the visa and passport services division of Kuoni, allocated its euro and sterling loan refinancing package this week, after increasing the euro offering and tightening pricing on both tranches.
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Dutch musical theatre group Stage Entertainment, producer of shows including The Lion King and Mamma Mia!, debuted in the leveraged finance market this week for a €355m term loan to pay a dividend recapitalisation to sponsor CVC, after the latter’s majority investment in the firm in 2015 was unusually an all equity deal.
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Germany's Klöckner Pentaplast’s merger with UK competitor Linpac will create a global player in the packaging sector, the firm said on Tuesday, with an Ebitda of over €300m. The debt backing the merger will bring leverage at the firm to over eight times Ebitda, however, according to S&P, and one investor said he was concerned the deal could follow the market trend in becoming too aggressive.
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A slew of event-driven deals were launched into the leveraged loan market this week, joining Lindorff’s €3bn high yield offering in electrifying leveraged finance new paper issuance and catching some investors by surprise.
