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Upper mid-market firms eschew ‘exciting’ stories as cracks emerge in European private credit
Pharmaceuticals and energy transition also ripe sectors for M&A
The US bank has emerged from its restructuring to record impressive market share gains following a reboot of its financial sponsor and leveraged finance businesses
Firm has added to its London team with seventh partner hire this year
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Cineworld announced on Monday it was closing all of its 536 Regal Cinemas in the US and its 127 Cineworld and Picturehouse venues in the UK from Thursday, adding urgency to the company’s search for enough liquidity to see it through the Covid-19 crisis in cinema. -
Friday’s confirmation that the Issa brothers, backed by TDR Capital, had won the auction for UK supermarket Asda, catapulted them into the super league of borrowers in European leveraged credit — the handful of entrepreneurs whose appetite for debt surpasses market appetite to lend to a single capital structure.
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As CLO spreads have rallied towards pre-Covid levels, some CLO managers have come to market with their second new issues since the pandemic first hit, taking advantage of loan prices still largely under par to ramp new issues quickly. But the new landscape is missing some of the market’s most well-known managers, and there’s a stubborn tail of pre-Covid warehouses still to shift.
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Bank of America has promoted Jeff Tannenbaum, its head of debt capital markets and leveraged finance EMEA, to head of global capital markets for the region.
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Leveraged loan liquidity in the European market has improved this year, with two-way flows resuming rapidly after the spring nadir of the Covid-19 crisis, and sufficient market depth to shift large portfolios. CLO managers are taking advantage, speeding up their time to market and time to ramp deals.
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Karri Vuori has joined UK mid-market M&A firm Cavendish Corporate Finance as a partner.
