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The era of pure-play private equity is over. Banks are pulling different divisions together to serve the complex needs of global asset managers
Specialist moves after 18 years in the market
New dangers are making deals harder to do, but pricing for the haves is still tight
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Gome Electrical Appliances Holdings priced a tap on Tuesday, adding $100m to the original $400m notes on the back of 6x demand. Investors’ eagerness for paper allowed the issuer to price inside both its existing notes and secondary.
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Chinese resource-based energy company Brightoil Petroleum (Holdings) pulled what could have been its debut international bond on Tuesday — the second borrower to cancel a deal recently — as heavy high yield supply as a result of two potentially huge exchange offers, as well as the underperformance of recent paper, weighed on investors’ minds.
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China Evergrande Group has announced final price guidance for its new four, six and eight year notes, part of an exchange and new money offering launched earlier this month.
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A €17m floating rate issue will be listed on the Third Market of the Vienna Börse to fund the acquisition of Corpo Vigili Giurati, the Italian private security group, by the Berni-Gamberini family.
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Nordic issuers are occupying both ends of the deal size range in the euro high yield market of late. First was Sweden's Instrum’s multibillion bond sale on Friday, and on Tuesday Denmark’s European Energy announced a €50m refinancing deal.
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CVC flexed its buyout muscles again this week, buying two European tech companies for more than €1bn, while Blackstone has agreed to a joint venture for its recently acquired cigarette filter making business Rhodia Acetow with a unit of US chemicals firm Celanese.
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