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German promissory notes come into their own in times of stress
Company ups loan from €135m and adds sustainability linkage
Conflict marks inflection point for investment banks as syndicated loan exposure and crushed bond fees come under scrutiny
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The Loan Market Association is set to restart its Schuldschein working group in February, with a workstream addressing credit restructuring. This is an early sign that the market’s heavyweights are taking this issue — which has damaged the Schuldschein’s reputation in some quarters — seriously. -
France's Saint-Gobain has met the shareholder and regulatory needs for its around €1.3bn purchase of US plasterboard company Continental Building Products, as the acquisitive construction materials company gets the thumbs up from ratings agencies for swerving the debt markets to fund the deal.
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Anglo Pacific Group, the London-listed, mining resources royalty company, has amended and extended its dollar revolving credit facility, which has now tripled in the last few years.
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Three more CEEMEA issuers hit the screens on Wednesday with new bond mandates, but one US based EM investor said that after a stellar January he is taking stock and considering reducing his exposures.
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UPC, part of Liberty Global’s European telecoms empire, is marketing dollar and euro term loan ‘B’s to pay off a $1.14bn issue of 5.375% senior secured notes. The refinancing comes only a few months after Sunrise cancelled its takeover of UPC’s Swiss business — to the disappointed of Liberty.
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Loans bankers pride themselves on not succumbing to the knee-jerk reactions of their colleagues on the bonds desk. But the Libor transition is highlighting serious flaws in this approach and it is causing alarm among corporate treasurers.
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