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Springer Nature, the German academic book publisher, plans to prepay €420m of high yield bonds, refinancing them with a new secured loan.

Hotel Lotte Co has axed plans for a listing that could have raised W5.3tr ($4.5bn) after a raid by investigators on the offices of its parent proved one setback too many for the issuer.

French glass packaging maker Verallia plans to sell the second largest single-B rated tranche of the year on Monday, after a pumping week of high yield issuance.

Investigators raided the offices of Lotte Group early Friday morning, one week after they did the same to its subsidiary Hotel Lotte Co, which is in the midst of trying to launch an IPO.

Springer Nature, the German publisher, Unit4, the Dutch software firm, and German telecoms firm Tele Columbus have all brought refinancing deals to the leveraged loan market this week.

Springer Nature, the German publisher, Unit4, the Dutch software firm, and German telecoms firm Tele Columbus have all brought refinancing deals to the leveraged loan market this week. But the majority of deal flow remains in the mid-market space.

According to the statement emailed by Cathay Financial Holdings to GlobalCapital Asia, the Ultrasonic loan was signed among Nomura and the participants in August 2014. A month later, the CEO of the company Qingyong Wu went missing after which the company defaulted on its obligations.

Legal action launched by six Taiwanese lenders against Nomura for a syndicated loan that went into default, has unearthed simmering conflicts in the tightly knit Asian syndicated loan community. The fallout will have ramifications for Nomura and the wider loan market, writes Shruti Chaturvedi.

Hotel Lotte Co has managed to smooth over a wobble in investor sentiment for its W5.3tr ($4.6bn) IPO after accusations of bribery in the company hit the news last week. It has delayed its listing by a month, chopped the price range to bandage the situation and now looks set to go ahead, writes Jonathan Breen.

Nomura's head of debt management office relationships has left the bank, as the firm simplifies management structures in trading and capital markets.

Hotel Lotte Co has sliced the potential money it can raise from its IPO to W5.3tr ($4.6bn), a cut of more than W400bn, and pushed back the deal to now launch in mid-July, according to an updated prospectus filed with the South Korean regulator.

Hotel Lotte Co has delayed the launch of its IPO, which could raise W5.7tr ($4.9bn), as it needs to file more documentation for the deal, it said on Friday — but the setback came just after the issuer’s offices were raided last week on accusations of bribery, according to sources close to the situation.