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The era of pure-play private equity is over. Banks are pulling different divisions together to serve the complex needs of global asset managers
Specialist moves after 18 years in the market
New dangers are making deals harder to do, but pricing for the haves is still tight
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Singapore’s Wilmar International has bumped up the size of its dual-tranche borrowing to $1.8bn after attracting 24 participants during syndication. -
A new deal from Carlyle is the only CLO to have emerged in the primary market so far this week, following just two new deals last week. Spreads have firmed up on the lower supply and better macro backdrop, but with as many as 35-40 deals in pipeline the slowdown might not last long.
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Market pessimism has deepened after Lebara, the troubled UK-based mobile virtual network operator, failed to release financial results again this week. An offer to pay bondholders a temporary extra spread of up to 700bp is not expected to lift its bond price.
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State-owned China National Building Material has kicked off its debut syndication through three bookrunners, seeking $160m from the fundraising.
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Bank of China Macau branch is providing a $700m loan to back Chinese alternative asset management firm CDH Investment’s acquisition of Sirtex Medical, according to a source close to the situation.
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The CLO and leveraged loan markets, despite running at white-hot levels, do not represent the same level of systemic risk to the financial system as the subprime RMBS model did during the last credit cycle, said Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts on Monday.
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