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Innovation and ambition have been hallmarks of mergers and acquisitions activity this year, but there are some signs of weakness in private equity
Leveraged loans in stressed sectors like software carry refinancing risk
Ferrero International markets €300m deal
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Emerging market bond yields are still drifting higher and higher, but EM investors are vociferously backing the asset class and starting to claim that the wider yields mark a good re-entry point.
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Turkey’s Sasa Polyester is on track to take out a €231m export credit agency-backed loan to build a new facility in its home country. -
BMC Software, the US IT firm, has revealed the loan leg of the funding for its leveraged buyout by KKR, a $4.4bn facility in dollars and euros. It is the first multi-billion leveraged loan deal for four weeks, after a battery of large offerings early in May.
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Shipping company Irish Continental Group has signed an €80m financing facility with the European Investment Bank, with the financing coming soon after the company announced a spate of committed and uncommitted loans totaling €608m-equivalent. The ship it finances will be the largest cruise ferry in the world.
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Cloetta, the Swedish confectionery company, has amended and extended its euro and krona loans in an entirely Nordic banking affair, and also launched a commercial paper programme.
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Nigeria’s Access Bank has completed syndication of its one year loan. Lender demand pushed up the final amount raised by 58% to $158m.
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