Top Section/Ad
Top Section/Ad
Most recent
Scrabble expected to sign deals before summer
UBS promotes bankers to replace leveraged finance specialist
Tightening trend in private credit pricing has reversed since April 2, but reliability is funds' trump card
The asset manager sees higher demand than ever as direct lending proves solid during a crisis
More articles/Ad
More articles/Ad
More articles
-
Douglas, the highly levered beauty retailer, is finding the bond market more receptive than loans to its turnaround refinancing. It has restructured its debt package to switch €330m of secured loans to bonds. The comeback deal appears still on track, though the PIK notes are being marketed at a punchy 9% yield. -
More than one in 10 European companies had to renegotiate covenant waivers on loans to offset a collapse in earnings from the pandemic, and loans bankers say they are still getting requests from borrowers to amend terms.
-
Singapore-listed Manulife US Real Estate Investment Trust has raised a $250m five year sustainability-linked loan from two banks.
-
Vietnam’s Masan Group Corp, an investment holding company operating in the food and beverage and consumer retail industries, has increased its borrowing to $350m after receiving strong response from 23 banks during syndication.
-
Organon, a spin-off of US pharmaceuticals company Merck, has launched the first $3bn of a $9.5bn capital raising that will give the soon-to-be independent group its own debt capital structure and fund a one-off special dividend to its parent.
-
Windscreen repair group Belron, which owns brands such as Autoglass and Carglass, looks set to become the second borrower to raise an ESG-linked leveraged loan in dollars and euros, adding this feature into a broad financing package of new loans and amendments to fund a €1.46bn dividend to owners D’Ieteren Group and CD&R.
