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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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Private equity firm Alchemy launched a sale of £70m of shares in UK estate agency Countrywide Holdings on Thursday night, following another successful sale by the firm's two other owners last month.
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Doughty Hanson raised £120m through a sale of shares in UK cable equipment firm HellermannTyton on Wednesday night, with reverse enquiries and strong support from existing investors pushing the deal through a lock-up and securing tight pricing.
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France’s smart card developer Oberthur has fixed guidance on €440m equivalent of covenant-lite loans after discussions with potential lenders at a bank meeting in London on Wednesday.
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SNF Floerger, the French speciality chemicals company, sold its first dollar bonds with a $250m long eight year issue on Wednesday.
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Card Factory, the UK gift card retailer, has priced its new £165m term loan ‘C’ at the tight end of guidance ahead of the deadline for final commitments on Monday.
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After last week’s mortgage lender Jerrold, this week has brought another new sector to the European high yield market with Medical Properties Trust, a US real estate investment trust. -
The UK’s children car seat manufacturer Britax Childcare has launched a $424m equivalent loan package to refinance existing debt taken out at the time of its leveraged buy-out by private equity firm Nordic Capital.
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Private equity firm Doughty Hanson is set to raise up to £127m on Wednesday through a sale of shares in HellermannTyton, the UK cable equipment firm that floated in March, breaking through a lock-up that was to expire later this week.
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Dell, the US computer maker, allocated the €700m tranche of its LBO financing early on Wednesday, after European investors overwhelming supported one of the largest covenant-lite deals ever to be issued in the currency. Most of the commitments to the loan came from lenders in Europe, investors and bankers involved in the deal told EuroWeek on Wednesday.
