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Specialist moves after 18 years in the market
New dangers are making deals harder to do, but pricing for the haves is still tight
Manager refinances 2023 deal, reset in 2024
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The middle market CLO segment is slowly regaining momentum, with more managers coming back to the market to take advantage of tighter spreads and a clearer picture of the financial impact of coronavirus on middle market companies. -
A common feature of the US CLO market known as the loss mitigation loan has begun to make its way into European deals for the first time, continuing the trend of European managers borrowing features from US peers to deal with the effects of the Covid-19 crisis.
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Permira and partners have injected £600m of equity into their debt collector portfolio company Lowell as part of a £2.2bn recapitalisation and refinancing effort for the troubled company, which saw its bonds heavily shorted and was widely expected to restructure its liabilities this year. The contribution is the largest equity injection from a sponsor in EMEA since the coronavirus pandemic began, and reflects what Lowell's management sees as a historic opportunity to buy NPL portfolios in the months ahead.
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ReNew Power, the Indian renewable energy giant, brought a $325m green bond to the market on Tuesday. It offered investors a rare opportunity to buy a high yielding deal from the country, despite using a fairly unusual structure for its transaction.
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Credit Suisse Asset Management has closed its first CLO equity focused fund, raising $265m from investors.
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Cerberus Capital Management is selling one of the largest ever portfolios of UK mezzanine mortgage bonds on Thursday, following a deterioration in the terms available in the ABS repo market after the huge volatility seen in the Covid crisis. The sale comes the same week as the sale of the last tranche of mortgages by government bad bank UK Asset Resolution, which could also flood the market with mezzanine supply.
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