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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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With leveraged companies largely shut out of central bank bond buying and price support schemes, sponsors are mulling government-backed lending schemes in several European countries, as they seek to show other creditors that they have abundant access to liquidity. But the schemes often come with strings attached, which could do nearly as much damage to a sponsor's investment thesis as a restructuring. -
Indofood CBP Sukses Makmur has sent out a request for proposals for a loan to back its acquisition of instant noodle maker Pinehill Company.
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The merger of the UK’s largest mobile phone operator, O2, with cable company Virgin Media, agreed on Thursday, will generate a £6bn financing need which the parties want to complete before the deal closes, expected to be in 2021 — and later on, it could lead to an IPO, say sources close to the deal.
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Macau casino operator SJM Holdings is in talks with lenders for covenant waivers on a HK$25bn ($3.2bn) facility, as it faces delays over opening a new resort in Asia’s gambling hub.
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Chinese conglomerate HNA Group has missed yet another payment, this time of $750m, on a loan it raised in 2016 to acquire Ingram Micro, a US information technology and products distributor.
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As Western societies begin to contemplate life returning to some semblance of normality, the financial industry is working out how best to balance the understandable desire to get back to how things were before the crisis with the very real threat of a new and more deadly wave of coronavirus brought on by a mass-return to offices. GlobalCapital’s Silas Brown spoke with Peter Openshaw, a specialist in immunology and virology and professor of experimental medicine at Imperial College, about the transmission of Covid-19 and how banks, investors and companies can reduce the risk of infection.
