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Michelle Sierra
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Investment-grade loans see trading pick-up
The hunt for yield coupled with a lack of new lending opportunities in the US investment-grade loan market is prompting an upturn in the trading of Term Loan A paper as new bank investors push in to a previously illiquid part of the loan market.
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Barclays steps up for Dish bid
Dish Network, the second-largest US satellite TV provider, received a “highly confident” letter from financial adviser Barclays confirming its ability to raise the required financing to back its offer to buy
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Market cheers Thermo Fisher bridge
Healthcare equipment company Thermo Fisher Scientific’s announcement last week that it had trumped private equity bidders to buy rival Life Technologies for US$13.6bn brings the first big high-grade M&A loan of the year and the biggest US bridge loan so far to the market.
- Bacardi moves to US pricing model
- Banks back rival Dell bids
- Heinz leaves a bitter taste for Europeans
- Heinz moves closer to cementing buyout funding
- Dell’s US$13.75bn LBO debt lifts spirits
- Freeport clears hurdles
- Bankers shrug off Freeport concerns
