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Consortium of four banks provided financing with one bank new to deal
LBO financing includes $5.75bn term loan to be priced early next week
Consortium of eight banks provided the loan and facility contains 'rendevous' clause for switch to green purpose loan
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Telecom Italia has returned to the Schuldschein market, but through its Italian listed holding company for the first time. Ever since Italy made tax changes for foreign lenders four years ago, Schuldschein arrangers have hoped that more Italian borrowers would come to the market. But companies are coming to the market for price and diversification above anything else. -
The £4bn take-private of UK aerospace and defence company Cobham by US private equity firm Advent, backed by a £2.5bn debt package, was threatened this week when business secretary Andrea Leadsom ordered an investigation into the deal just after 93% of the shareholders voted to accept the deal.
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A legion of lenders has joined London Stock Exchange Group’s $13.5bn bridge loan for its acquisition of data company Refinitiv, as the London exchange fights off a hostile bid from Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing that could scupper the acquisition.
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Lai Sun Development, a Hong Kong-listed property developer and investor, has sealed a hugely popular HK$3.6bn ($460m) four year green loan to finance the Hong Kong Ocean Park Marriott Hotel.
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China’s Wolong Electric Group has closed its €150m debut offshore borrowing with 14 lenders.
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Sirius Minerals is in big trouble, and that means big losses ahead for the mainly retail investor base, who saw their shares dive 50% on Tuesday morning. Since the crisis, regulators have strained every nerve to keep complex, risky products out of retail hands — while retail investors have merrily piled into loss-making tech stocks and cryptocurrencies, and gambled on extractive industries. How much protection do they need?
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