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  • Stark Group’s strong performance amid the pandemic is a crucial selling point for investors looking at buying the €1.35bn loan to fund its purchase by CVC, which agreed to buy the firm from Lone Star in January. The group has added an ESG ratchet to the facility, an increasingly common structure this year, with a margin stepdown if it cuts greenhouse gas emissions.
  • Aedifica, the Belgian healthcare property investment company, has closed its debut US private placement, according to market sources.
  • The Public Investment Fund, the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia, has coupled with private equity firm NBK Capital Partners, anchoring a direct lending fund.
  • CVC’s secondary buyout of building material firm Stark Group will crank leverage back up at the group, following a tough year when previous owner Lone Star battened down the hatches and paid down debt during an initial scramble for liquidity when the coronavirus pandemic struck.
  • Shurgard, one of Europe’s largest self-storage companies, has returned to the US private placement market for the third time, according to market sources. The company is only the second from Europe to launch a PP deal this year.
  • A number of smaller European banks are trying to buy Schuldscheine on the secondary market, according to sources with knowledge of the situation, in order to post it as collateral to receive cheaper funding from the ECB ahead of a March 31 deadline.