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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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Willkie Farr & Gallagher hires Lane for restructuring — Walsh quits Morgan Stanley for Credit Suisse — Porter moves to S&P for bank loan ratings
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The high yield market found its first post-summer issuer on Monday, when Continental, the German tyre maker, sold a €750m unsecured seven year bond. The crossover-rated issuer was seen as having paved the way for truer high yield names to come to market in September, even though its deal had a rather more investment grade ring to it, with its slim yield of 3.25%. -
Energias de Portugal took advantage of a vigorous corporate bond market this week to raise €750m of seven year debt at 5%. On what one banker described as “a peripheral day all round”, EDP was not the only issuer picking the last day before Friday's non-farm payroll data and a potential intervention in Syria to issue.
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Jumbo leveraged buyouts are no longer cool. That at least was the view of private equity executives attending the Euromoney LevInvest conference.
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The case for investing in the equity tranches of European or US CLOs is not compelling because returns do not sufficiently reward the risks involved, two veteran CLO equity investors told delegates at the Euromoney LevInvest European CLO Congress in London on Tuesday. In addition, those equity investors that are participating in new deals are finding themselves in a tussle with triple-A debt investors over the inclusion of protective features, delegates heard at an earlier panel.
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Leveraged finance sponsors, borrowers and investors remain optimistic about the prospects for the European market in 2013, with speakers at the annual Euromoney Leveraged Finance conference hopeful about the market's capacity.
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A new dividend recapitalisation transaction from television operator M7 Group has kicked off what could be a busy month for issuance in the leveraged loan market.
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Dutch non-food retailer Action has closed the syndication of a €275m senior term loan ‘C’ after a 25bp pricing flex.
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Host Europe increased the portion of euro denominated loans within its £225m all-senior debt package, which will back the UK website host’s buy-out by private equity firm Cinven.
