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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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Blackstone’s GSO took advantage of a long bout of volatility caused by the fallout from Covid-19 headlines to price a $500m “print and sprint” CLO at the end of last week, accelerating the formation of the deal and navigating volatility to buy loans cheaply and bundle them into bonds. -
Alcentra has provided $530m of senior debt to fund the acquisition of medical device maker Lumenis by Baring Private Equity Asia, in the largest direct lending deal the European private debt specialist has done in its history.
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Lead managers added 1% Libor floors to recent dollar loans from Polynt-Reichold and Genesis Care, part of a package of measures to push them over the line as market conditions deteriorated in the last two weeks. But rates have plunged so quickly that these floors are already in the money.
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Some leveraged issuers could avoid covenant breaches thanks to the coronavirus outbreak, according to researchers, by using the "extraordinary, unusual or non-recurring" carve-outs to add back some costs to Ebitda figures.
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TVS Supply Chain Solutions, a subsidiary of Indian industrial conglomerate TVS Group, has mandated three banks for a $185m loan that will be syndicated to a small set of banks.
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Investors already reeling from the growing impact of Covid-19 on markets had another thing to contend with on Monday — a collapse in the price of crude oil. Asian bonds and stock markets tanked in the aftermath, with debt bankers saying there was no reprieve in sight.
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