Top Section/Ad
Top Section/Ad
Most recent
Major sectors in leveraged loans are trading down, making shrewd credit selection vital
William Liu joins from K&L Gates
Buyers line up €11bn of debt and equity financing
Upper mid-market firms eschew ‘exciting’ stories as cracks emerge in European private credit
More articles/Ad
More articles/Ad
More articles
-
The Asian M&A market is heating up, providing loans bankers with some welcome relief following a relatively quiet first half. Promising opportunities from the potential spin-off of Hutchison Global Communications (HGC) and the sale of Singapore’s Global Logistic Properties have set the stage for more activity. Shruti Chaturvedi reports. -
Permira Debt Managers has sole-financed Liberty Hall Capital Partners’ $135m acquisition of UK aircraft tyre company Dunlop with a £45m loan, after closing its third direct lending fund at €2.1bn this week.
-
CVC flexed its buyout muscles again this week, buying two European tech companies for more than €1bn, while Blackstone has agreed to a joint venture for its recently acquired cigarette filter making business Rhodia Acetow with a unit of US chemicals firm Celanese.
-
Two Indonesian financial institutions, Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) and Adira Dinamika Multi Finance, are scheduled to hit the loan market in July.
-
High-end solar panel maker REC Solar has tasted success with its first Asian syndicated loan attracting enough demand for it to raise $330m after exercising a $25m greenshoe.
-
Safetykleen Europe, the surface treatment and chemical application services provider, has led a group of smaller new money deals to market this week. It held a bank meeting on Wednesday in London for its €455m seven year term loan ‘B’, backing Apax’s buyout from Warburg Pincus.
