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Flooring company's bespoke 'super senior funding' was done away from the syndicated loan market
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Robert Bosch launched Schuldscheine with tenors varying between two and 20 years on Tuesday. The German car parts supplier is looking to raise at least €500m in a market all but shut since the coronavirus pandemic reached Europe. Participants hope this launch will prompt other borrowers to follow suit.
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Prospects are rising of a return to normal merger and acquisition activity, despite the continued grip of the Covid-19 pandemic. Telefónica, the Spanish telecoms group, has confirmed it is in talks about combining its UK mobile business O2 with Virgin Media, the quad play telecoms firm owned by Liberty Global.
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Chenavari Investment Management’s Toro Fund said in a recent update to investors that it was unwinding its leveraged loan warehouse, in contrast to other CLO fund managers and equity investors that have pushed out deals and begun to reopen the market.
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Synlab, a medical testing firm owned by Cinven, is looking to push out its debt profile, amending and exchanging bonds and loans due 2022 to a loan with a 2024 maturity. It is the first flicker of life in the European primary leveraged loan market since the coronavirus crisis hit.
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Jacques Callaghan, formerly of Macquarie Capital, has joined HSBC as head of UK mid-market M&A, concentrating on a wedge of companies that are important to the bank’s new strategy.
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Luxshare Precision, a Chinese designer of cable assemblies, has launched a $500m loan into syndication, hiking up the margin on offer due to changing market conditions caused by Covid-19.