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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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Yuzhou Properties Co sold its third dollar bond deal of the year this week, bringing its total issuance for 2019 to $1.5bn. -
Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman’s bid for German listings and classified ad group Scout24 is likely to disappoint the leveraged finance market in Europe, which is keen to see some jumbo event-driven supply. The firms are targeting a takeover of the group, but not as a full take-private structure — and with a large equity cheque cutting the likely debt volume on offer, as well as the leverage and price.
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ThyssenKrupp, the German steel and engineering company, has raised €1.5bn in the corporate bond market, despite downward pressure on its credit ratings as it prepares to spin off its capital goods business later this year.
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Jacob Holdings’ acquisition financing for emerging markets schools group Cognita has been wrapped up, with the planned unsecured high yield issue marketed in November stripped out and replaced with a €225m second lien loan.
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Members of the European Parliament are planning to add a controversial ‘non-sustainable’ category to the Taxonomy of Sustainable Economic Activities proposed last year by the EU Commission. Two Brussels sources have told GlobalCapital the Parliament's vote on the issue, scheduled for Wednesday February 20, has been postponed after heavy pressure from corporate lobbyists.
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The anchoring of European CLOs by Japanese investors, one of which has been claiming the senior notes on most euro CLOs issued in 2019, is likely to continue until at least mid-April, despite the year end for Japanese banks at the end of March, which often slows the market. ICG is the latest manager to launch an issue, with Goldman leading the deal.
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