Loans and High Yield
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SoftBank returned to euro and dollar bond markets after a three year absence to issue an eight tranche deal, raising more than $7bn-equivalent from total demand of more than $16bn, and hitting every empty spot in its funding curve at once.
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In a report on the state of UK private credit, Pemberton predicts further concentration in direct lending, as borrowers opt for established players over upstart funds.
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Natasha Harrison, the heir apparent to fabled law firm Boies Schiller Flexner, told GlobalCapital that while she was not expecting a collapse in corporate credit coming out of the coronavirus, there will be big opportunities for sophisticated distressed debt investors.
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BNP Paribas has retained its place at the top of the EMEA loan league table for the first half of 2021, but its market share is much smaller than for the same period last year.
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West China Cement returned to the bond market this week after an absence of nearly seven years to raise $600m.
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Four Chinese local government financing vehicles courted dollar investors on Tuesday, raising $870m between them.
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The flurry in European leveraged credit supply continues this week, as trigger-happy investors push for deals further down the credit curve amid record low levels of corporate distress.
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The tide of leveraged finance docs has gone out, and it isn’t coming back in. Lenders have only the comforting embrace of sponsors to rely on. But that’s the game today, and you have to play it.
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Logan Group Co used the last of its offshore debt issuance quota to price a $300m green bond on Monday.
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Aldesa Group, a Spanish construction and engineering firm acquired by state-owned China Railway Construction Corp last year, is tapping the Asian loan market for a €150m deal.
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French frozen food producer Picard launched a €1.71bn sustainability-linked dividend deal on Monday, just months after it had to pull a similar deal.
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Personal hygiene company Ontex has launched a bond deal, aiming to replace the bulk of its previously secured capital structure with unsecured debt, and push out its 2022 maturity wall with longer-term funding.