How Snooze Drag Helps Borrowers Extend Loan Maturities
Series 5, Episode 5: Hina & Sandeep wrap up the year with Tia Zhang and discuss a workaround seen in loan documentation allowing borrowers to extend maturities more easily.
In this episode Hina & Sandeep are joined by Ruth Yang, Global Head of Thought Leadership as their guest. Listen to their discussion and hear about the current challenges to the credit markets.
Our aim is to provide market participants with further advanced analytical insight into Corporate Credits, CLOs and Leveraged Finance deals, with S&P Global Ratings regular podcast, based on key features we’re seeing in corporate credits and sectors that CLOs are exposed to.
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Series 5, Episode 5: Hina & Sandeep wrap up the year with Tia Zhang and discuss a workaround seen in loan documentation allowing borrowers to extend maturities more easily.
In Episode 32, Steve H Wilkinson, Managing Director of Leveraged Finance at S&P Global Ratings, discusses an interesting case study of Trinseo’s creative debt structuring that helped the firm procure new debt financing to address pending near-term maturities.
Related Document Link: Leveraged Finance: Creative Structuring Helps Trinseo PLC, Comes With Lowered Recovery Prospects And Higher Costs | S&P Global Ratings (spglobal.com)
In episode 31, Minesh Patel, the U.S. sector lead of leveraged finance at S&P Global Ratings, and Daniel Pianki, the director of U.S. corporate ratings, discuss one of the most significant leveraged buyout transactions this year and Worldpay's credit rating rationale.
In Episode 27, Minesh Patel, the U.S. sector lead of leveraged finance at S&P Global Ratings, and Hanna Zhang, the director of U.S. leveraged finance and recovery, discuss Hanna’s article titled: Disparities Emerge By Sector, Rating, Company Size, And Debt Cushion.
Key takeaways from the article include:
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In episode 30, Minesh Patel, the U.S. sector lead of leveraged finance at S&P Global Ratings, and Hanna Zhang, the director of U.S. leveraged finance and recovery, discuss Hanna’s article titled: Disparities Emerge By Sector, Rating, Company Size, And Debt Cushion.
Key takeaways from the article include:
Link to the article discussed in the podcast:
U.S. Leveraged Finance Q2 2023 Update: Disparities Emerge By Sector, Rating, Company Size, And Debt Cushion: https://www.spglobal.com/ratings/en/research/articles/230727-leveraged-finance-u-s-leveraged-finance-q2-2023-update-disparities-emerge-by-sector-rating-company-size-12802865
In this latest episode of our Leveraged Finance & CLOs Uncovered Podcast is out. This time, we discuss how rising interest rates and decreasing consumer confidence led to a downgrade of building material maker LSF10 XL Investments S.a.r.l. (Xella).
In episode 29, Nishit Madlani, the U.S. sector lead for business services and autos at S&P Global Ratings and Ben Hirsch, an associate director within the S&P’s U.S. business services team, discuss their latest article titled: Cash Flow Drought, Refinancing Wall Heighten Rating Risks In Business And Technology Services; But Some Sectors Are An Oasis.
Key takeaways from the article include:
Links to articles discussed in the podcast:
Cash Flow Drought, Refinancing Wall Heighten Rating Risks In Business And Technology Services; But Some Sectors Are An Oasis: https://www.spglobal.com/ratings/en/research/articles/230627-cash-flow-drought-refinancing-wall-heighten-rating-risks-in-business-and-technology-services-but-some-sector-12768327
What Rising Interest Rates Could Mean For U.S. Business And Technology Services Companies Rated 'B' And 'B-': https://www.spglobal.com/ratings/en/research/articles/230118-what-rising-interest-rates-could-mean-for-u-s-business-and-technology-services-companies-rated-b-and-b-12613219
In this discussion, Minesh Patel, the US sector lead of Leveraged Finance at S&P Global Ratings, teams up with the Director of Leveraged Finance, Hanna Zhang, to explore the key insights presented in Hanna's latest commentary, titled "U.S. Leveraged Finance Q1 2023 Update: Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes -- Material Shifts In Key Credit Stats Drove Downgrades To 'B-' And 'CCC', And Upgrades To 'B-'."
Key takeaways from the article include:
The commentary to the related article:
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In this episode Hina Shoeb & Sandeep Chana spoke with Lukas Brockmann about PortaVentura’s amend and extend deal and S&P Global Ratings’ rationale for considering it as opportunistic. The theme park operator International Park Holding (PortaVentura) extended maturity and upsized its deal while meeting ongoing leisure demands. This is S&P Global Ratings' only cross sector podcast, providing market participants with advanced analytical insights into Leveraged Finance deals overlaying CLOs. We highlight the key features we’re seeing in corporate credits, leveraged loans, and sectors that CLOs are most exposed to.
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