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AfDB hopes to launch multi-issuer securitization this year
◆ French firm takes €700m with unrated deal ◆ Double digit concession needed ◆ Deal prices inside debut, but returns higher yield
Deal liberates capital and tempts investors to take new frontier market risk
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Sopra Steria, a French consulting and computer services business, has raised €250m of Euro Private Placements (Euro PP). -
Trans-Oil, the Moldovan agro-industrial firm, has signed a $150m loan facility with nine lenders, including three development banks.
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Virgin Media launched a refinancing of its $3.4bn senior secured term loan B, with a combined offering across sterling bonds, and euro and dollar loans. The move comes two weeks after Swiss telco Salt proved that bonds could price meaningfully tighter than leveraged loans for the right issuer, and Virgin also saw a strong result.
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Suez Water Resources, the US subsidiary of Suez, the French water and waste management company, has issued $375m of US private placements, with the longest note expiring in 40 years — a rarity for dollar PPs.
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Denmark’s Hafnia has cut down the size of its revolving credit facility to $473m, as the shipping company refinances its bank debt following its merger with BW Tankers at the start of the year.
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German car parts maker ZF Friedrichshafen has closed its Schuldschein and agreed to take just over €2bn, according to market sources. Schuldschein participants believe this demonstrates the private market’s ability to compete with its public equivalents.
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