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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 European CLO market is back in business, a few weeks on from the restart of primary issuance in the US. Both markets are moving cautiously to get back on track in the pandemic economy, tweaking deal formats, shortening reinvestment periods and looking at deal documents to see where there is room for flexibility to manoeuvre through a historic period of distress. -
Norwegian Air Shuttle improved the terms of an offer to bondholders for a second time this week, just hours before the deadline for its creditors to agree on a restructuring plan that it hopes will eventually unlock a state rescue.
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Lloyds Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland have decided not to charge clients an arranging fee when lending via the UK’s Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS), while HSBC will not charge any early repayment fees.
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Deutsche Bank has regained its number one spot in its home market, but it was its traditional investment banking business that shone rather than investments made as part of the firm’s new Germany-focused strategy, writes David Rothnie.
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Coffee machine company Selecta’s high yield bonds dropped 24 points on Wednesday after it released awful numbers for the fourth quarter of last year — sending leverage shooting up well before any coronavirus impact. It was the first company in Europe to announce it had raised new super-senior debt from its sponsor, KKR Credit, which injected a €50m liquidity facility into the capital structure in March.
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CLO managers are moving to bake additional flexibility into deal documents, looking to bolster structures against any potential wave of bankruptcies among leveraged loan borrowers.
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