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The Prague-based defence and technology firm attracted 18 institutions into a deal which compressed margins by 150bp
Sleeping SLLs clause enters template as compressed margins make borrowers reluctant to deal with verification costs
First Abu Dhabi joins the syndicate for the short term loan all but equalling the size of a previous revolving facility
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  • Friday’s confirmation that the Issa brothers, backed by TDR Capital, had won the auction for UK supermarket Asda, catapulted them into the super league of borrowers in European leveraged credit — the handful of entrepreneurs whose appetite for debt surpasses market appetite to lend to a single capital structure.
  • Newlat, the Italian food company, has made an offer for UK bread maker Hovis, as foreign companies continue their push to pick up some of the UK’s best known firms.
  • ONGC Videsh (OVL), the overseas arm of India’s state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp, has picked six banks for a $700m borrowing.
  • Inland Homes, a UK housebuilder, has triggered an accordion clause on a sterling loan to finance extra construction, as lenders say there are signs that companies are using money to invest again rather than firefight the effects of Covid-19.
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    The long-awaited Science-Based Targets standard for financial institutions has arrived. It is one of the most ambitious attempts so far to wrest the financial sector from its path towards climate destruction.
  • As CLO spreads have rallied towards pre-Covid levels, some CLO managers have come to market with their second new issues since the pandemic first hit, taking advantage of loan prices still largely under par to ramp new issues quickly. But the new landscape is missing some of the market’s most well-known managers, and there’s a stubborn tail of pre-Covid warehouses still to shift.