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A strange and, until recently, rare phenomenon has been witnessed in the leveraged loan market — pricing widening on deals. On Thursday Micro Focus chose only the minimum amount for the euro tranche within its $5.5bn loan package, prompting whispers among some observers that this hitherto red-hot market may have found its floor, and even rebounded off it. -
HCP Global has distributed its $540m facility among 17 banks, with mostly Taiwanese lenders receiving an allocation.
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UK forecourt operator Euro Garages held a lender call this morning for a repricing request on its £250m and €585m term loans, a deal one investor on Thursday said was a potential barometer of where market pricing now is.
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Three Chinese companies have been hit by difficulties that resulted in them breaching covenants on international syndicated loans. Despite the cluster of problems, bankers says this does not point to more systemic failure in China Inc. John Loh and Shruti Chaturvedi report.
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Element Materials Technology has agreed to purchase Exova, the laboratory testing specialist, for £620m, with the deal set to bring further new paper to the leveraged loan market.
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Leoch International Technology is in the market for a $150m fundraising that launched into general syndication via three mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners.
