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◆ Schaeffler attracts €5.8bn peak book… ◆ …while SPIE finds €2.8bn of orders ◆ Strong demand allows for strong price moves
Bot claims funding is ‘cheaper than peers who borrow from independent banks or credit funds’
Innovation and ambition have been hallmarks of mergers and acquisitions activity this year, but there are some signs of weakness in private equity
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  • Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup Joint Stock Company and its automobile subsidiary VinFast have returned to the loan market, seeking a total of $500m in senior syndication.
  • The next economic downturn will be much more severe than the last financial crisis because firms have twice as much outstanding debt as they did in 2008, said a leading academic this week.
  • Nomura’s Cicchine heads for Deutsche — Macquarie finds head for new lending group — Citi promotes ECM bankers.
  • A surprise agreement between the UK government and the European Union has led to renewed optimism for the country's capital markets. There is hope that an orderly Brexit, or even a long extension, will lead to an increase in investment from UK companies, particularly in the form of M&A. Investors are more than willing to finance these deals, write Sam Kerr, Jasper Cox and Mike Turner.
  • Paolo Cicchine will join Deutsche Bank as vice-chairman of global healthcare coverage.
  • Investors have piled into bonds to fund the buyout of UK theme park operator Merlin, despite the covenants on the unsecured debt being considered the worst ever. Meanwhile, the “net short” provision, designed to curb CDS investors, looks to have made it to the final documentation for the first time in a European deal.
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