Loans and High Yield
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US borrowers have accounted for almost all high yield bond sales in Europe in February as investors scramble for paper and European issuers turn to leveraged loans, with deals this week for Levi Strauss and Quintiles IMS. But European borrowers should be back soon, said bankers. -
KKR has agreed to buy up to a 40% share in Telefónica’s telecoms infrastructure division Telxius for €1.275bn, adding further to a growing buyout pipeline in Europe.
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US healthcare research firm Quintiles IMS launched a $3.065bn-equivalent term loan ‘B’ refinancing and add-on this week. By Thursday the firm had dropped the add-on however as its €850m eight year notes offering proved popular.
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Finnish technology company Nokia is set to become the first European company to issue a euro high yield bond for four weeks. Meanwhile, UK food producer Bakkavor will repay all its notes.
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Jeanswear maker Levi Strauss priced on Thursday a new refinancing deal in euros, having been absent from the European high yield bond market for seven years.
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US pharma research firm Quintiles IMS Holdings printed on Thursday a new €1.4bn high yield bond, proving that European high yield investors are embracing the train of US issuers printing in euros.
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Allen & Overy has hired three partners from Paul Hastings to its leveraged finance practice.
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Sri Lanka has picked a consortium of six banks for a $1bn borrowing, just months after wrapping up its last loan. A pick up in sentiment around the country and its reliable track record means the latest deal will do well in syndication, with heightened interest from India providing additional momentum. Shruti Chaturvedi reports.
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Pan-European car park operator Apcoa has released price guidance at 450bp with a 0% floor on its €325m seven year term loan ‘B’, a deal that follows a restructuring in 2015 that led to distressed debt investor Centerbridge taking over the firm.
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Xinhu Zhongbao Co became the latest dollar issuer to benefit from a conducive market backdrop this week, pricing a $700m bond — the largest high yield property transaction in recent times.
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Commerzbank has chosen a new head of its UK corporate banking operation and a new head of international loan origination as part of a reshuffle of senior bankers.
