Loans and High Yield

Sina Corp, a Chinese internet firm that owns social media platform Weibo, is seeking a $2.08bn borrowing from onshore and offshore borrowers. It plans to use the money to delist from the Nasdaq.

Three high yield Chinese property issuers turned to the offshore bond market on Monday, raising $950m between them.

Canpack, a Poland-based packaging company, is making its debut in the euro and dollar high yield market this week, as it seeks to shake off the constraints of its private placement-based capital structure and prepare for expansion in the US.

Large deals and fundraising from a clutch of elite direct lenders, alongside high profile tie-ups with sovereign wealth funds, have prompted many to characterise direct lending as enjoying a golden age. But the success of some funds looks set to come at the expense of many others, writes Silas Brown.

Germany is set to implement a total revamp of its corporate restructuring rules from next year, with a draft bill overhauling a court-led regime more than 25 years old and replacing it with rules law firm Kirkland & Ellis called ‘best practice’.

Jaguar Land Rover, whose February bond issue was one of the first casualties of the coronavirus pandemic in the capital markets, has brought its first bond issue since, strengthening bond terms with a ‘springing lien’ protecting investors against future priming debt.

Dürr, the unrated German mechanical and plant engineering firm, is guiding investors on its final day of marketing towards it issuing a €250m bond with a yield aligned to issuers in the double-B ratings bracket.

The €875m acquisition loan for EQT Infrastructure’s purchase of French care home operator Colisée will come with a reduced original issue discount and at the tight end of guidance, but the buyout firm has conceded a ticking fee, as the deal must compete with secondary markets, which are still largely priced at a discount.

Indian borrowers are finally returning to the offshore loan market after months of little to no action. But even as a pipeline builds, bankers remain wary of challenges around execution. Pan Yue reports.

Chinese property company Agile Group Holdings raised $300m from its Wednesday bond sale, but found less investor support than excepted.

European credit markets recorded no fallen angels in September — the first month of the Covid crisis that this has occurred, according to credit strategists at Bank of America — and few corporates are now at immediate risk of a slide out of investment grade.

NatWest plans to contact around 3,500 of its corporate clients from Thursday to inform them about the end of Libor as a benchmark and what their options and next steps are, as a recent survey showed that the vast majority of companies have not made any tangible efforts towards moving debt facilities to risk-free rates.