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Banks leading the financing package for Blackstone’s leveraged buyout of Thomson Reuters’ Financial & Risk business — soon to be renamed Refinitiv —have shifted some of the funding away from the bonds and into the loans, increasing leverage in the deal and mirroring the issuance trends seen in leveraged finance this year. -
Traders, bankers, lawyers, brokers tell their stories of what happened when Lehman Brothers went down, how it ruined some businesses and created room for others, and how it has changed financial markets — for better and worse.
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Billions of dollars are flowing into direct lending funds targeting US corporate loans to small and medium sized companies, despite signs of weakening underwriting. Unshackling leverage constraints on business development companies and reopening the CLO market to them after a two year absence may further overheat the market, say critics.
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The Blackstone-led consortium of investors buying out Thomson Reuters’ Financial & Risk business is understood to be looking to decrease the amount of financing it needs from the euro market for the deal’s $13.5bn debt funding package, with demand appearing better for dollar bonds, according to investors.
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The SEC has issued a no-action letter that will allow Golub Capital and other middle market lenders to issue CLOs through a business development company (BDC) without falling foul of conflicting regulations covering risk retention and investment companies, a move that could be a further boost to US middle market corporate lending.
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Arranging banks have released price talk on the $8bn of loans financing the leveraged buyout of Thomson Reuters’ Financial & Risk business.
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Investec has filled a newly created sales position with a hire from UniCredit in a bid to expand its leveraged buyouts business.
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Spire Partners has hired Sumeet Sikka as senior credit analyst to provide generalist coverage as the CLO firm grows assets under management and looks to broaden the companies on its radar.
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The role of rating agencies in contributing to the 2008 financial crisis should not be forgotten. Inflated ratings on securities that turned toxic played a major part in the build-up of the financial bubble that later burst with costly consequences.
