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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. -
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.
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Vietnam Technological and Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Techcombank) has launched its $500m borrowing into general syndication, after attracting six banks in the senior phase.
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Carlyle’s credit opportunities fund has provided a full €400m unitranche financing for Infront, after the Swiss sports marketing company opted to switch tracks from its original syndicated loan, launched in April.
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Loans bankers focused on Vietnam have had to quickly adapt their syndication strategy for deals from the country amid a new surge in Covid-19 cases. Their approaches have differed: while some banks are charging ahead with transactions, others are opting to delay deals. Pan Yue reports.
