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CVC and other owners are putting in €220m of new equity to Douglas, the German beauty chain, ahead of a long-awaited refinancing which will see existing subordinated debt made whole — a nice trade for any buyers that bought in at its lows of 33 last year. -
Goldman-owned hotel chain B&B Hotels has launched a new loan deal for liquidity, in a test for the loan market's capacity for the next generation of rescue funding in the most distressed industries. The deal comes alongside an equity cheque of €80m.
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Goldman Sachs has launched the loan backing Bain Capital’s take-private of Ahlstrom-Munksjö into general syndication, looking to sell euro and dollar tranches over the next two weeks, and is likely to follow the loan launch with a secured bond in the coming days.
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Stark Group’s strong performance amid the pandemic is a crucial selling point for investors looking at buying the €1.35bn loan to fund its purchase by CVC, which agreed to buy the firm from Lone Star in January. The group has added an ESG ratchet to the facility, an increasingly common structure this year, with a margin stepdown if it cuts greenhouse gas emissions.
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The financing for the Issa brothers and TDR Capital’s buyout of Asda was priced on Wednesday, breaking multiple records in the process and showing that, for the right issuer in the right conditions, the sterling market can shoulder the bulk of a multi-billion LBO package. Owen Sanderson reports.
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Asda has definitively demonstrated the sterling high yield market’s capacity to do size, garnering more than £8bn of orders across the two tranches of its buy-out financing. Investors bemoaning their likely miserable allocations, however, may find some cold comfort in a refi issue from fellow UK supermarket Iceland, announced on Wednesday.
