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Margins widen as lenders weigh up AI disruption to portfolio companies
Market still open to strategic mergers, but deal execution more selective
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Pitts-Tucker takes sole control of Nomura International IB — Hourican turns up at NewDay — NatWest hires RBC SSA banker
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Technology platforms are vying to become the first to close a fully digital Schuldschein offering — without a paper parallel — under German law. But some see the obstacle to progress not behind the beady eyes of the regulator, or the possibilities of technology, but with market participants’ customs.
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The $10.2bn debt package backing the buyout of Johnson Controls’ Power Solutions unit by Brookfield and CDPQ will set the tone for leveraged capital markets in the first half of 2019. But despite high hopes for more investor-friendly deal terms after successful buy-side resistance on last week’s loans, the Power Solutions covenants package sees the pendulum swing back again, writes Owen Sanderson.
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Ceva Santé Animale, a French company which develops vaccines and pharmaceuticals for animals, is preparing to raise a €2.15bn loan package to refinance and to pay a dividend.
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EMEA loans bankers are taking some positives from developments in the wider capital markets.
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Pearson, the UK educational publisher, has signed a $1.2bn bank facility with a novel margin link to the company’s progress in educational reach, but loans bankers say that this increasingly popular form of funding is unlikely to drag the market out of its low volume melancholy.
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