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Over the weekend, one of our staff members scored a victorious escape from Shanghai, where over the last 2.5 months, the only times she had been out of her apartment were for mandatory Covid tests or picking up grocery deliveries. The video clips she shot on her phone - while riding on the back of a delivery guy’s motorcycle en route to the train station - showed deserted streets, clean but empty. After a four-hour train ride, she arrived at a city in central China where she’s from originally. Upon arrival, she was shepherded into a student dormitory-turned hotel for...

Reorg webinar replays are available to subscribers within 24 hours and are made more widely available in the following days. Our library of past webinar remains available by searching on the topic or title, but for ease we are including links to a selection of recent webinars from across our global coverage here. Asia Core Credit by Reorg Reorg Webinar Series: Liability Management Exercises by Chinese Real Estate Companies Chinese real estate companies have launched a slew of liability management exercises (LME) such as exchange offers and schemes of arrangement since the second half of 2021. The exercises were largely...

Distressed Activity Gains Momentum in US, Debt Talks Develop in Europe as Primary Markets Hiccup; Underwriters Offer Credit Enhancement for Chinese Developers’ New Bond Issues, India’s Stalling IPO Market Generates Direct Lending Opportunities Reorg’s editorial leadership has selected the following list of the most compelling and topical situations and distressed activity across our global coverage universe. For any suggestions please email us at questions@reorg.com. In the Americas, distressed activity is gaining momentum, with an increasing number of companies looking to reset their capital structures amid rising inflation, near-record fuel and commodity prices and ongoing supply chain constraints resulting from the...

Reorg Asia Credit Daily -- China  China Bonds Up as Mortgage Reference Rate Cut Chinese real estate high-yield prices rallied with the overall sector up two to three points today following the People's Bank of China’s announcement earlier this morning that it would lower the five-year loan prime rate (LPR) by 15 bps to 4.45%. The five-year LPR is a reference rate for housing mortgages and the cut is seen as an effort by the central government to support the real estate market. Country Garden Holdings’ $750 million 5.125% notes due 2025 were indicated up as much as five points...

Long ago and far away, a deeply cynical editor once told me that there was a simple trick to writing financial trend stories: If you wait three years, he said, you can recycle each one of your stories, because markets will have forgotten that you ever wrote them. (Whether this three-year period directly correlates to the short-term memory of financial markets, I have yet to discover.) Sadly, the deeply cynical editor may have been, if not wholly, at least partly right. Taking direct lending as an example, over the roughly 10 years since I first wrote about the growth of...