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Consumer financing firm Home Credit Vietnam has launched an up to $100m loan into syndication, breaking down commitment tickets to smaller amounts to attract a wider group of lenders. -
Casino operator SJM Holdings is planning a return to the loan market, as it looks to ride on the successes of two well-received bond deals this year.
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Former Goldman Sachs partner Tim Flynn co-founded credit fund manager Hayfin in 2009, with the global financial crisis of 2007-08 already in the rear view mirror. Having steered his firm through the European alternative credit market's first major test, he talked to GlobalCapital about how funds are managing their way through the Covid-19 crisis and whether their performance will attract more investors into the asset class.
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Following a shortened holiday week, the pace in leveraged credit is quickly picking up with a variety of companies announcing new loan and bond deals, from refis to acquisition financing, and M&A still running hot.
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Blackstone, Carlyle and Hellman & Friedman announced over the weekend that they would be taking a stake in healthcare supplies firm Medline at an enterprise value of $34bn, making it one of the largest leveraged buyouts in history. The scale of the deal underlines the extent of private equity dry powder, and signals that leveraged finance investors can expect more new money supply ahead.
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Cal-Comp Electronics (Thailand) Public Co, an international subsidiary of Taiwan’s Kinpo Electronics, is tapping the loan market for its debut sustainability-linked borrowing as companies and banks continue to push the development of the asset class in Asia.
