Loans and High Yield
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AIIB's Mills Hagen leaves for Opec Fund — Horta Osório to chair Credit Suisse, replaced by Nunn — Mulderrig to head up European debt syndicate at UBS -
The European Leveraged Finance Association, a trade body of investors, has slammed terms in the $1bn buyout bond for Ancestry.com which cap investor voting rights, hoping to stop the new feature in its tracks and prevent sponsors including it in European transactions.
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Hong Kong property company New World Development Co used a fixed-for-life perpetual structure to net $700m on Wednesday.
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Shares in Fugro, the Dutch geo-data specialist, rose by over 7.5% in trading on Wednesday after the company set terms for a €197m rights issue. The cash call is part of a comprehensive refinancing package that finally resolves longstanding issues around debt maturity.
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BC Partners-owned advanced ceramics company CeramTec has issued an add-on to its term loan 'B', raising another €175m — enough to push its senior secured rating down into the single-B category. But the opportunistic move to raise new cash will give the company firepower for future M&A.
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Moody’s has changed its outlook on the EMEA corporate sector from negative to stable, though lenders say they are still on standby for another deluge of financing requests if the economic recovery is scuppered.
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Mid-market firm CapVest won the auction to buy software provider Datasite with a unitranche loan in October, and it is now taking out the senior layer with a public syndication to firm up the financing on better terms. It's a deal that combines the strengths of public and private funding.
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PGIM has hired Steve Logan as a senior portfolio manager in its European leveraged finance operations.
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US direct lender Owl Rock has hired its first employee in London, as it seeks to develop its business in Europe.
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Four Chinese borrowers hit the dollar bond market on Tuesday, raising $745m between them.
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Europcar is one of the first large companies to restructure with a big state-backed Covid-19 rescue loan in its capital structure. The planned scheme, proposed to creditors last week, leaves the guaranteed loan untouched, which is likely to be the preferred plan for future creditor compacts.
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Dexin China Holdings Co has worked hard to court bond investors and establish its name this year. The move paid off on Thursday, when the issuer grabbed its first single digit bond coupon.
