Loans and High Yield
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Cement producer TCC International Holdings has decided to increase the size of its five year fundraising to $540m from $450m, exercising the full greenshoe.
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Greenko Investment Company is building books for what will be India’s first dollar-denominated green bond by a corporate issuer. On the same day, BoCom HK has returned with a three year dollar floater.
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Veritas Technologies on Tuesday began marketing a €580m-equivalent secured bond, the last leg of the debt package that supports its acquisition by private equity firm Carlyle — and that investors rejected in November 2015.
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Morrison Utility Services is to launch this week loans backing the first UK leveraged buyout since Britain’s vote to leave the EU, according to a banker with knowledge of the deal.
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Key private equity players have their pools of cash ready to deploy when business valuations drop — yet Standard & Poor’s Global believes that even then, sponsor-led LBOs will be scarce.
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CAR, formerly known as China Auto Rental, is one step further along with its plan to sell a Panda bond, having received approval from China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC).
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Chailease International Financial Service has upped its three year revolving facility to $195m from an initial size of $130m after some 20 lenders joined during general syndication, sources said.
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German automotive supplier ZF Friedrichshafen has refinanced debt it took on for the acquisition of TRW with €3.5bn of loans. The company said credit rating upgrades earlier this year helped it to secure the improved deal.
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European high yield market participants still believe the market can digest LBOs, even if recent speculative grade M&A activity has avoided bond financing.
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Dutch telecom firm Ziggo marketed a $1.6bn loan refinancing package during an investor call on Monday afternoon, after the European Commission cleared its proposed merger with Vodafone’s dutch unit last week.
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Aluminum Corporation of China (Chalco) has registered plans to sell a new foreign currency bond with the National Development and Reform Commission
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VietinBank, one of the largest state-owned commercial lenders in Vietnam, is back in the market with a $100m bullet just five months after signing its previous loan. This time around, the borrower has managed to narrow the margin by 40bp.