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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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French non-performing loan servicing firm MCS Groupe printed its €200m five year floating rate note at 5.75% over Euribor on Wednesday. The deal received a boost in trading on Thursday as the market welcomed the Fed’s decision to hold interest rates.
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French retail group Fnac printed its €650m seven year notes at 3.25% on Thursday, below the deal's initial price range, as it won plenty of demand from domestic investors. -
German industrial packaging firm Mauser launched a €537m term loan refinancing with a lender call on Thursday afternoon, while at the same time fellow German firm Orion Engineered Carbons was set to close its repricing request.
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US car rental provider Avis this week followed rival Hertz to the euro market and sold a €300m bond, increasing the deal from its initially marketed size.
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Banks are queueing to set up shop in an international financial services hub in India — the first of its kind in the country. Institutions operating there enjoy certain regulatory exemptions, which are expected to give a leg-up to domestic lenders looking to build a foreign currency loan book. Shruti Chaturvedi reports.
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Ufinet, the telecommunications firm with headquarters in Madrid, and Ammeraal Beltech, the Dutch conveyor belt manufacturer, both marketed dividend recapitalisations on Thursday. One senior market observer said that the regularity of such deals was reflecting poorly on the private equity community.
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