EMEA Primary Market Half-Yearly Wrap: Primary Market
Register for the Primary Market Insights Webinar on July 26 to hear about our findings in further detail here. The European leveraged finance primary market recovered from its 2022 lows during the first half of this year. Term loan B amend-and-extend transactions, add-ons and refinancings formed the bulk of issuance and helped to push out maturities but resulted in higher interest costs and squeezed interest coverage ratios. The second half of this year is expected to see similar activity, with high levels of primary issuance and large investor appetite for the high yields on offer, but M&As will remain suppressed....
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