Loans and High Yield

Senvion’s €400m 3.875% 2022 bonds fell almost 15 points on Wednesday to 35, after revised earnings guidance from the wind turbine manufacturer led bondholders to expect debt restructuring to be on the horizon.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ronshine China Holdings announced the results of an exchange for its outstanding 2021 bond on Monday, at the same time as kicking off bookbuilding for $200m of new funding.

Cifi Holdings (Group) Co returned to the bond market with a $300m transaction. The four year bond’s tight price stood in stark contrast to the two year notes Cifi paid up to sell in December.