Loans and High Yield

Gome Electrical Appliances Holdings priced a tap on Tuesday, adding $100m to the original $400m notes on the back of 6x demand. Investors’ eagerness for paper allowed the issuer to price inside both its existing notes and secondary.

Chinese resource-based energy company Brightoil Petroleum (Holdings) pulled what could have been its debut international bond on Tuesday — the second borrower to cancel a deal recently — as heavy high yield supply as a result of two potentially huge exchange offers, as well as the underperformance of recent paper, weighed on investors’ minds.

China Evergrande Group has announced final price guidance for its new four, six and eight year notes, part of an exchange and new money offering launched earlier this month.

A €17m floating rate issue will be listed on the Third Market of the Vienna Börse to fund the acquisition of Corpo Vigili Giurati, the Italian private security group, by the Berni-Gamberini family.

Nordic issuers are occupying both ends of the deal size range in the euro high yield market of late. First was Sweden's Instrum’s multibillion bond sale on Friday, and on Tuesday Denmark’s European Energy announced a €50m refinancing deal.

CVC flexed its buyout muscles again this week, buying two European tech companies for more than €1bn, while Blackstone has agreed to a joint venture for its recently acquired cigarette filter making business Rhodia Acetow with a unit of US chemicals firm Celanese.

Two Indonesian financial institutions, Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) and Adira Dinamika Multi Finance, are scheduled to hit the loan market in July.

High-end solar panel maker REC Solar has tasted success with its first Asian syndicated loan attracting enough demand for it to raise $330m after exercising a $25m greenshoe.

Road King Infrastructure grabbed $300m on Monday from the sale of its second fixed for life perpetual bond this year, taking advantage of investors’ eagerness for yield.

Brightoil Petroleum (Holdings) is marketing its maiden international bond, while Gome Electrical Appliances Holdings is taking bids for a tap of notes printed earlier this year. China Gold International Resources Corp, meanwhile, is meeting investors later this week for its second offshore outing.

Klöckner Pentaplast, the German plastic packaging maker, has in store a potential subordinated bond deal to fund its merger with UK peer Linpac. Some see the issue as a test on how real the risk appetite is in the European high yield market.

Safetykleen Europe, the surface treatment and chemical application services provider, has led a group of smaller new money deals to market this week. It held a bank meeting on Wednesday in London for its €455m seven year term loan ‘B’, backing Apax’s buyout from Warburg Pincus.