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Major sectors in leveraged loans are trading down, making shrewd credit selection vital
Deal is one of the tightest prints this year and is the second European CLO solely arranged by Mizuho
Debut manager is launching a CLO platform building on leveraged loan market experience
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The overnight sale of 35m ProSiebenSat.1 Media shares, priced at €31.53 by bookrunners Bank of America Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan, has boosted the German firm’s performance in an otherwise soggy European equity market.
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Energias de Portugal, the Portuguese electricity company, is set to price a €600m 7.2 year bond at 4.25% on Wednesday — only 25bp wider than where its 2020 notes were trading.
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Royal Bank of Scotland and asset management firm Alcentra have provided debt to back Mountain Warehouse’s management buyout of minority shareholder LDC.
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The European leveraged loan market is attracting ever more foreign issuers, new research from Dealogic has shown. The volume of loans in euros from non-European borrowers is at its highest level since 2007.
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Hertz, the US car rental business, hopes to price its €425m five year bond in the 4.375% area later today.
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The Loan Market Association has launched new documentation for use in leveraged acquisition finance transactions, the group announced on Tuesday.
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This week is shaping up to be another stormer for European corporate bond new issues. Despite Monday’s holiday, €7.6bn of deals are already on the clock, and bankers across the street say Thursday will be busy too.
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CLO managers putting together new deals in the next few quarters may find sourcing loans easier when older CLOs are called as they leave their reinvestment periods, according to Moody’s Investors Service.
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Fiat Finance and Trade issued Sfr450m of four year bonds on Tuesday. The Italian carmaker rated Ba3/BB-/BB- sold the bonds with a 4% coupon — its lowest coupon on a Swiss franc bond so far.