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Five months in, Alessandro Melzi is getting started on the plan, but his boss is about to change
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PARIS PRIVATE DEBT ROUNDTABLE European private debt markets are developing fast and diversifying — although many market participants would rather they became standardised. The Euro Private Placement market, founded in France, has not blossomed into a rival to the US PP. Many French issuers now travel to Germany’s larger Schuldschein market.
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Dutch agency BNG via DZ Bank has placed the first ‘smart n-bond’, a Namensschuldverschreibung (NSV) issued through digital platform European private placement facility (eppf). Participants hailed this transaction as a step towards a functioning pan-European private placement market. -
Patrick Drahi’s BidFair USA vehicle has agreed to take auction house Sotheby’s private for $3.7bn, a premium of 61% to Sotheby’s closing share price on Friday. BNP Paribas has provided committed debt financing for the all-cash deal, with Morgan Stanley joining as financial advisor.
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NatWest Markets is piloting a bilateral loan option for some of its corporate clients that uses the Sonia benchmark instead of the scandal-hit Libor, in a move the bank says is a first for the market.
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Germany’s Rodenstock has agreed €415m of bank debt, as the eyeglasses company’s financial metrics show sharp improvement following a recent strategic restructuring.
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Citigroup is in the market with a refinancing of metals waste management company Befesa, following Triton Partners’ exit from the 18.6% stake it held in the company earlier this month through a block trade. The company is raising a €526m loan to refinance its existing 2022 loan of the same amount.
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