Loans and High Yield

Women’s clothing maker E-Land World has received a good response for its $200m dual tranche borrowing, which could lead the company to increase the facility's size. Bankers attributed the deal’s success to the company’s steady growth in China and attractive pricing.

TI Automotive, the UK car parts maker being bought by Bain Capital, is rushing from Monday’s London bank meeting to New York to build support for a €1.07bn-equivalent acquisition loan. Bonds will follow later.

Mauser, the German industrial packaging group, has won near-unanimous acceptance for its amendment exercise on a $1.6bn leveraged loan, originally closed last July to back its buyout by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice.

Barclays has appointed one man to run its EMEA debt capital markets and risk solutions business after announcing the departure of one of the group's co-heads.

You know when you know what someone means, but what they’ve actually said is gobbledygook?

Mizuho International has brought in a new head of fixed income trading in London, with its previous head moving to another senior job within the bank.

GNF Telecom, the telecoms unit of Gas Natural Fenosa which was bought by Cinven last year, is seeking to cut the margin on a €295m leveraged loan it allocated last July.

Douglas Holding, the German perfumery chain, has enlivened the leveraged loan market this Monday, launching a €1bn deal that will contribute to its buyout by CVC.

British Airways is refinancing $1.25bn of credit facilities in a deal that is separate from the €1.4bn loan its parent company, International Airlines Group, is using to buy Aer Lingus.

Only one high yield bond was being roadshowed in Europe today, and it was in Swiss francs — but that does not mean volatility in euro rates has disrupted the market, bankers say.

Far from being the bunch of cautious stay-at-homes one might expect, it turns out that loan bankers count among their ranks some of the most fearless thrill-seekers in the capital markets.

International schools operator Nord Anglia on Friday announced a Sfr235m bond to finance its recent purchase of six schools from Meritas.