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New leveraged loan supply has started strong, despite geopolitical jitters leading to softness in the public markets, and it’s not just play-it-safe refi issues. Cision is marketing dual-currency acquisition debt for Platinum Equity’s takeover of the public relations technology firm, while Global University Systems is prepping a deal of nearly €1bn to fund a dividend. Also in the loan market are Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics and Refinitiv’s euro repricing, while Stena and Ashland have mandated potential bond deals. -
Xerox has secured $24bn in financing for its unsolicited debt backed bid for rival technology company HP, as the acquisitive firm looks to quell HP shareholder worries about how it will fund the jumbo deal.
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Signify, the acquisitive Dutch lighting company, has signed €1.75bn-equivalent of bank debt, but is looking to drive its leverage ratio down sharply in the coming years.
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Premier Oil has become the first company to announce a major ECM transaction in 2020, a £385m ($500m) capital increase to repay debt and finance the acquisition of two UK North Sea oilfields from BP.
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HSBC Germany has hired Heiko Mittelhamm as head of M&A for Germany and Austria.
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Refinitiv is repricing its €2.33bn term loan 'B', after Bank of America held a lender call on Tuesday to approve the deal. The financial data company is set to be purchased by the London Stock Exchange Group later this year, but is looking to cut the costs of the debt it took on for its 2018 takeover by Blackstone, GIC and CPPIB. A repricing of its $6.5bn term loan before Christmas shaved 50bp off the margin.
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