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  • Technicolor has asked its lenders to waive a default condition so it can appoint a conciliateur and begin a consensual debt restructuring process that includes €400m of new financing and a debt-for-equity swap. This follows the failure of the company’s planned €300m rights issue, announced in mid-February but thrown off course by the coronavirus pandemic.
  • Tendam, a fashion retailer, is the latest Spanish company to get syndicated loan backing from the state owned Instituto de Credito Oficial (ICO), as sectors hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic lean on state support.
  • Muddy Waters has fostered a fearsome reputation as a credible, thorough and forceful short seller whose explosive reports are a danger to anyone harbouring a stake in its intended target. Carson Block, its founder and chief investment officer, told GlobalCapital he has never been wrong about a company he’s shorted, though that doesn’t mean he’s made money from every position he has held. According to Block, monetary policies intended to stimulate markets through financial crises actually corrode them, and stifle accountability for serious failures in corporate governance.
  • India’s Mu Sigma, a data analytics firm, has returned to the loan market for an up to $100m deal to refinance its debt.
  • JP Morgan has started syndication on a refinancing loan for Micro Focus, a deal first marketed at the end of February but pulled in the first week of March, in a further sign that the loan market is healing enough to start clearing the overhang of pre-coronavirus financings.
  • Chinese pork producer Muyuan Foods has set the ball rolling on its debut $200m offshore loan.