LONDON, July 2 (LPC) - Direct lenders are turning on their firepower to provide financing for European companies, taking advantage of market jitters caused by Covid-19 in the leveraged finance market.
LONDON, July 1 (LPC) - Syndicated lending in Europe, the Middle East and Africa of US$471bn for the first six months of the year was just 4% down on the previous year as corporates worked quickly to raise billions of dollars of short-term liquidity and weather the immediate Covid-19 storm, Refinitiv LPC data shows.
LONDON (LPC) - Investors are concerned that adjustments to earnings made during the Covid-19 pandemic are becoming too aggressive as borrowers keep earnings artificially high to avoid covenant defaults and delay the onset of restructurings.
LONDON, June 16 (LPC) - Carlyle-backed plastic packaging firm Logoplaste has amended a €570m leveraged loan financing, becoming the first environmental, social and governance-linked loan to test Europe’s institutional investor base.
LONDON, June 5 (LPC) - Leveraged loan investors are locking borrowers into expensive loans for a longer period of time, adopting more restrictive measures from the bond market to try and get comfortable lending again as the market reopens for business.
LONDON (LPC) - A number of European direct lenders are opportunistically raising billions in high return funds to deploy to borrowers in much need of liquidity, taking advantage of the volatility caused by Covid-19.
LONDON, May 22 (LPC) - A number of European direct lenders are opportunistically raising billions in high return funds to deploy to borrowers in much need of liquidity, taking advantage of the volatility caused by Covid-19.
LONDON, May 15 (LPC) - Banks are pitching refinancings to a large number of leveraged loan borrowers hoping to take advantage of a limited window before second quarter trading results emerge, rendering some deals at that point too expensive or unviable due to the negative impacts of Covid-19.
LONDON, May 7 (LPC) - Europe’s leveraged loan market reopened for business last week for the first time since March as European lab operator Synlab and US data analytics firm Nielsen launched deals to reshuffle their capital structures and replace bonds with loans, but are paying up to do so.
LONDON, May 1 (LPC) - Banks are responding to regulators’ calls for them to ramp up lending to hard-hit European middle-market businesses struggling with the downturn caused by the Covid-19 outbreak.
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