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Leveraged Loans

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  • Standard Chartered has appointed Lyndon Hsu as global head of leveraged and structured solutions, based in Singapore.
  • A €179.4m loan to support Chinese company Aier Eye Hospital Group’s acquisition of Spanish firm Clinica Baviera has entered syndication with three banks at the helm. The deal is another example of Mainland firms’ eagerness to expand overseas, which is in turn giving the country’s lenders with similar ambitions a leg-up as they venture into relatively unexplored markets. Shruti Chaturvedi reports.
  • Buyers considering Klöckner Pentaplast’s €1.6bn loan and Manutencoop's high yield bonds forced the issuers to sweeten terms this week, in a now rare sight in the leveraged finance market.
  • Lotte Vietnam Shopping has hit the international syndicated loan market for a $300m borrowing, with Standard Chartered at the helm.
  • Issuance of leveraged loans hit $548bn in the first half of this year, setting a record for any first or second half, according to S&P Global Ratings.
  • A burst of M&A-related financing has put the spotlight on the Asian leveraged finance market, which some still see as a poor relation to its US, European and Australian equivalents. But recent deals show that Asia’s levfin market has been evolving.