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  • Permira Debt Managers has launched its fifth ‘Sigma’ structured credit fund, looking to buy CLO equity. Senior tranches in CLO vehicles have sharply tightened against Euribor as European rates have plunged deeply negative, but Euribor floors worth up to 50bp are increasingly determining the economics of the CLO business.
  • ING, which served as agent on a Schuldschein for the first time only five years ago, has carved out an impressive niche in the market, arranging nearly every green issue.
  • China National Chemical Corp (ChemChina) is seeking lenders’ consent to amend terms of a $5.5bn dual-tranche loan sealed last year, as it undergoes a debt restructuring, according to bankers.
  • 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.
  • 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.