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Issuers piled into Europe’s high grade corporate market on Wednesday but the deal flow had slowed to a dribble by Thursday with many issuers still on earnings blackouts. Investors showed less enthusiasm for the deals that came at the tightest spreads. -
US alternative asset manager Ares has closed an €11bn European direct lending fund, the largest of its kind.
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The Singapore-incorporated global energy company Puma Energy has bounced back after a planned bond issuance last year failed to materialise, raising $590m in the loan market. Sources say the company’s change of management and reorganisation brought a “sense of relief”.
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Artemis Growth Partners, an ESG-focused investment platform dedicated to cannabis, has hired JP Morgan's E. Stanton McLean, a managing director in the US bank's leveraged finance business.
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Mars Capital, now a subsidiary of Arrow Global, has probably sold controlling positions in two Irish reperforming loan portfolios, securitized in RMBS transactions Grand Canal 1 and 2, with the Grand Canal 1 portfolio rapidly returning to the market in a Morgan Stanley-backed deal announced on Wednesday. The move comes as TDR Capital’s bid for Arrow heats up, with shareholders now ready to vote on approval.
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Pandora, the Danish jewellery maker, has signed a €950m sustainability-linked loan and in the process become the latest company to repay, early, coronavirus pandemic crisis funding taken out last year.
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