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Weekly currency forecast: cooling UK inflation to push the pound lower?

IR Global on 7/5/2024

Political anxiety following the European elections hammered the euro last week, with significant gains for far-right parties and a snap election in France rattling EUR investors. This week, the UK’s latest consumer price...more

Investors flock to investment grade debt markets

White & Case LLP on 6/21/2024

Primary investment grade bond issuance surged in Q1 2024 as investors ramped up exposure to high-quality borrowers in a high interest rate environment. In the US, investment grade corporate borrowers secured US$429.7 billion...more

Global leveraged loan markets spring to life

White & Case LLP on 5/23/2024

After a challenging 2023, US and European leveraged loan issuance showed year-on-year gains in Q1 2024 as a more stable interest rate outlook encouraged borrowers and lenders to return to the market. After a challenging...more

Europe Energy and Infrastructure M&A: Risks and Opportunities in 2024

Vinson & Elkins LLP on 2/14/2024

Rising interest rates and stubbornly high inflation contributed to a subdued deals market in 2023. There was, however, no shortage of M&A highlights across the energy and infrastructure sectors, including the year’s two...more

Q&A: What does 2024 have in store for European M&A?

Proskauer Rose LLP on 12/7/2023

There is a wealth of dry powder to spend but 2023 has seen M&A deal activity hampered by rising costs of debt, unstable markets, supply chain issues, general political uncertainty, and fear of global recession. So, what does...more

European direct lenders step in to fill the gap

White & Case LLP on 2/9/2023

Heading into 2023, European leveraged finance markets continue to deal with fierce headwinds, following 12 months of economic and geopolitical volatility that has prompted a general slowdown in issuance. What does this mean...more

Hitting the brakes: European leveraged finance battens down the hatches

White & Case LLP on 1/31/2023

European leveraged finance markets saw significant inertia through the course of 2022 as high inflation, rising interest rates and cooling M&A activity put the brakes on leveraged loan and high yield bond issuance. How will...more

Debt Download - January 2023

Goodwin on 1/20/2023

Welcome to Debt Download, Goodwin’s monthly newsletter covering what you need to know in the leveraged finance market. We hope your year is off to a good start!...more

Debt Download - December 2022

Goodwin on 12/16/2022

In the inaugural edition of Debt Download, we covered recent trends in the U.S. debt finance markets. This month, we take a look at what’s happening in the U.K. and Europe....more

Economy pumps the brakes on loan markets

White & Case LLP on 12/1/2022

Leveraged loan activity slows in the US, Europe and APAC as a volatile economic backdrop and the rising cost of debt starts to weigh on issuance - Leveraged loan markets have been buffeted by a challenging macroeconomic...more

Macro-economic headwinds slow global leveraged loan market in H1

White & Case LLP on 8/12/2022

Rising inflation and climbing interest rates have slowed leveraged loan activity in Europe and the US, while COVID-19 restrictions in China dampened demand in Asia-Pacific - Leveraged loan markets across the globe faced a...more

High yield bond markets tap the brakes

White & Case LLP on 8/2/2022

High yield bond markets see issuance slow as borrowers and investors step back from new deals due to macroeconomic headwinds and geopolitical uncertainty Elevated inflation and interest rate hikes in Europe and the US,...more

European leveraged finance: A bifurcated balancing act: Data dive: European leveraged finance 2020

White & Case LLP on 2/19/2020

- The covenant-lite share of European institutional loan issuance in 2019 reached 92 per cent - European leveraged loan issuance in 2019 was down slightly on the previous year to €209.1 billion - High yield bond...more

It’s 2019 – Take Courage!

Dechert LLP on 1/14/2019

It’s 2019. Nothing really terrible or shocking has happened yet…at least by the standards of December. But it’s early yet. As a card-carrying member of the commentariat, I could not possibly pass up the opportunity to...more

SIDRU Judgment: Hedging Transaction Not Rendered Speculative Even if It Exposes Party to Unlimited Risk

Jones Day on 9/28/2018

The Context: In the wake of the Saint-Leu-la-Forêt decision of May 28, 2018, France's Court of Cassation issued an important decision on structured swaps concerning legal actions brought by public authorities against banks...more

The Growth of European Covenant Lite

Latham & Watkins LLP on 4/18/2018

In 2016, global sponsors and their advisers were successful in continuing to export their experiences from financing transactions in the US leveraged loan and global bond markets to the European leveraged loan market and this...more

Proskauer’s Second Annual Survey on Trends in Private Credit Markets

Proskauer Rose LLP on 4/18/2018

We are delighted to share with you the results from our second annual Trends in Private Credit survey. This year’s survey was conducted via web from January 9th to February 9th 2018. In this report, we will share...more

Negative Interest Rates: Autorité des Marchés Financiers Takes Position on Information to be Included in Bond Prospectuses,...

Jones Day on 12/7/2017

During the last decade, negative interest rates have raised concerns in the European debt capital markets landscape. Prospectuses often allow the issuance of debt securities for which the interest rate is linked to indexes...more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 11/3/2016

Soooooo . . . about that whole Brexit thing. A UK High Court has ruled that Britain’s EU withdrawal cannot move forward without the approval of Parliament, setting off more uncertainty and what’s expected to be a series of...more

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