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Deal rules and slow primary market make ramping up deals difficult
◆ Supranationals and agencies prepare to achieve the previously unthinkable ◆ Leveraged loans versus private credit and their effect on CLOs ◆ A new dawn for dollar covered bonds and UK equity market structure
◆ Schaeffler attracts €5.8bn peak book… ◆ …while SPIE finds €2.8bn of orders ◆ Strong demand allows for strong price moves
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The investment grade European corporate bond market is wide open this week, with a swathe of jumbo new issues in euros. Boosted by a relative lack of supply in recent weeks, issuers are achieving good terms, particularly on longer dated issues, with Siemens issuing the first 20 year bond of the year so far. But the sterling market is quiet as investors wait for clarity on what form the UK’s exit from the European Union in March will take.
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China property names continued their bombardment of the dollar market on Tuesday, as four more bond issuers raised a combined total of $2bn. -
Home Credit Vietnam has launched an up to $60m loan into general syndication after two year absence.
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Eleven CLOs were priced last week, marking the busiest week so far this year, but with wider spreads across the board and tranches in some deals split into fixed and floating components to appease some investors, sources said that the CLO market has yet to find its footing in 2019.
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Sivantos, a German hearing aid company owned by EQT Parters, is calling €275m of 8% 2023 notes at 102, and drawing on its acquisition debt, issued in July last year, after the European Commission cleared its merger with Denmark’s Widex. Like other companies hit by the deteriorating market conditions last year, it ended up substituting second lien debt for bonds.
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Ronshine China Holdings priced the new money portion of its exchange offer after building an order book that covered the deal almost 16 times over. The liability management exercise helped the issuer close the gap between its curve and that of similarly-rated Chinese property developer peers.
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