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Changing issuance patterns, tight mezzanine spreads and investor demand deliver bumper crop of deals
Deal follows Macquarie's acquisition of Spire, which issued previous Aurium CLOs
Pim van Schie, a portfolio manager at Neuberger, discusses rising investor appetite for CLO mezzanine tranches
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Abengoa, the Spanish-listed renewables engineering firm, sold a €50m add-on to its 2018 notes on Wednesday. See www.EuroWeek.com/levfin later today for details.
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Fresenius, the German healthcare company, started marketing a new €1.2bn loan package on Tuesday to back its acquisition of 43 hospitals from Rhön-Klinikum.
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Bankers working on the PIK toggle bond issue for the Automobile Association plan to release guidance today and price the £350m six year deal as early as this evening or tomorrow.
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UK theme park operator Merlin Entertainments began bookbuilding on its £1bn IPO on Wednesday.
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Double-B rated high yield bonds issued in Europe and the US in the last year could be the place to be for investors, according to Fraser Lundie, co-head and senior portfolio manager at Hermes Credit.
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Moody’s expects fewer companies to become ‘fallen angels’ in 2013 and 2014 than last year, as financial markets improved in the first nine months of 2013 and global economic prospects have begun to pick up.
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Stahl, the coatings company owned by Wendel, the French investment company, will acquire the leather business of Swiss chemical firm Clariant, Wendel announced on Wednesday.
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Companies have issued so many bonds during 2013’s exceptionally clement market conditions that the cupboard of mandates is looking quite bare. But the Indian summer of tight spreads and low rates that has followed the US Federal Reserve’s decision to delay tapering quantitative easing has made the market too good to resist for some borrowers.
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Nocibé, the French perfumery chain, is set to issue €330m of drawn and undrawn debt to back its acquisition by German retailer Douglas Holding.