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As predicted in our previous M&A report, 2022 has not lived up to the runaway performance of 2021. As activity—still at impressive levels considering everything that has been thrown at the deal market—takes a breather, we...more
HEADLINES Leveraged finance markets largely returned to the pre-pandemic status quo in the first half of 2021 following a tumultuous 2020. From January to June 2021, US leveraged loan issuance climbed 60 percent compared to...more
Leveraged buyout high yield bond and leveraged loan issuance fell in Q3 2020 as a lack of buyout deals in a still cautious M&A market dampened appetite for financing - Although leveraged buyout (LBO) activity showed signs...more
Mining companies entered 2020 in good financial shape and have continued to secure finance despite disruption from COVID-19 - The mining industry has navigated the past nine months in better shape than most sectors, even...more
While the outbreak of COVID-19 brought primary issuances of high-yield in Europe to a standstill starting in late February 2020 (lasting close to two months), in June the markets resumed the brisk pace of primary issuances...more
The decline in H1 2020 leveraged finance issuance has seen some lenders intensify their focus on pricing and borrower-friendly loan structures, but lender responses to the impact of COVID-19 have diverged across regions....more
The coronavirus pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on many businesses, including those with outstanding high yield bonds. The incurrence covenant regime (and absence of any maintenance covenants) means that, provided...more
Akin Gump London-based financial restructuring partner Liz Osborne and finance partners Amy Kennedy and Stephen Peppiatt discuss European bonds, loans and the various flavors of covenants in the current liquidity constrained...more
- 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
European Leveraged Finance Client Alert Series: Issue 8 - The traditional approach to the treatment of disposal proceeds in leveraged loan agreements has evolved in recent years, as borrowers seek to retain greater...more
The LMA Early Evening Seminar at Hogan Lovells Amsterdam on 1 October 2019 explored some trends in the leveraged finance market, with reports of a very healthy Dutch market, notwithstanding effects of Brexit, recession...more
European Leveraged Finance Client Alert Series: Issue 6 July, 2019 - Sub-investment grade rated property companies in the German market are increasingly supplementing conventional real-estate senior secured bank financing...more
European Leveraged Finance Alert Series: Issue 3, 2019 - Investors in high yield debt expect protections to be included in documentation in order to prevent bond issuers from taking certain actions that deteriorate credit...more
While each covenant package remains bespoke and in the context of some push back from investors, here is an overview of the key trends we have noticed affecting the covenant package...more
Overview and Methodology - Welcome to this seventh edition of Proskauer’s Global High-Yield Bond Study, our analysis of market trends for high-yield bond offerings. Using analyses from our proprietary database of...more
At the start of 2016, global sponsors and their advisers are the US leveraged loan and global bond markets to the European leveraged loan market. Healthy investor appetite over the last several years means attractive terms...more