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Swiss commodities firm has deleveraged thanks to elevated free cash flow
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
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A pair of gatecrashers have burst into Temenos’ £1.4bn bid for UK trading technology firm Fidessa, with one party offering a 5% premium to the existing deal from the Swiss banking software company. -
Commodity trader Glencore has ramped up the size of its short term revolver by almost $4bn between syndication launch and signing, with dozens of banks piling into the refinancing exercise in the latest example of deal starved lenders scrabbling for places to put money to work.
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Schuldschein market participants expect an uninspiring pipeline for the next few months as the hangover of 2017's pre-funding spree is felt in the first half of this year. But traditional arrangers hope the itch to win mandates is satisfied by a search for borrowers from new regions, and not a scurry down the credit spectrum.
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Private placement investors have noted a widening in secondary market spreads for the bonds of UK utilities. That means they may be able to price private placements for these borrowers within their outstanding sterling bond curves, depending on maturity, which has not been easy in the last few years.
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Dubai’s GEMS Education has closed the syndication of a $1.25bn loan with another five banks joining its deal.
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Solusi Tunas Pratama, an Indonesian telecommunications company, has launched a $577m-equivalent dual-currency loan denominated in dollars and rupiah into general syndication.
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