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On this episode of the Debtwired! Podcast, Ben Thompson, Head of EMEA Leveraged Finance Capital Markets at JP Morgan, discusses the outlook for primary issuance in the European leveraged loan and high-yield bond markets with Jelena Cvejic, Debtwire Europe’s Head of Leveraged Loans. As we are currently closing in on the second-busiest year ever in terms of gross volume in the European leveraged fin...

South Square Barrister Georgina Peters and Sarah Paterson, Professor of Law at LSE, discuss the court’s discretion when sanctioning a restructuring plan.

On the latest episode of the Debtwired! podcast, Mohamed Damak, Managing Director, Global Head of Islamic Finance at S&P Global Ratings, joins Debtwire CEEMEA's Mariam Meskin to delve into one of the latest developments in the sukuk market. AAOIFI, the Accounting and Auditing Organisation for Islamic Financial Institutions, last year published its draft of Shariah Standard No. 62, which — if a...

In this episode, Hossein Dabiri, Head of Court Reporting at Debtwire EMEA and Dawn Grocock, Senior Legal Analyst at Debtwire Europe, recap some of the key legal and court developments from the first half of the year.

In this episode with host Amelia Weitzman, a direct lending reporter at Debtwire Europe, you will hear from Peter Dahlen, who is Global co-head of leveraged finance at Clifford Chance. Peter has been a partner since 2013 and regularly advises corporate borrowers across leveraged finance, private credit and restructuring deals. We’ll hear his summary of market conditions this year so far, his expec...

On this episode Debtwire's Senior Legal Analyst Dawn Grocock speaks with Kirkland's Kon Asimacopoulos, Sean Lacey, Hannah Crawford and Kate Stephenson about the state of the restructuring market, the latest on UK restructuring plans, and where the Kirkland team see the market heading.

In this episode, Claire Matheson Kirton, a partner at White & Case, joins Debtwire CEEMEA’s Laura Gardner to explore the rise in investment from the Middle East into Africa. With China stepping back as a major financier across the continent, Gulf economies are jumping in to meet Africa's vast infrastructure and energy needs. GCC investors are seizing diversification opportunities in sectors su...

The podcast’s guest, Brian Himot, will also discuss the latest trends in private credit and opportunistic lending and several deals that SVP closed recently.

On this episode, we speak with Maples Group’s Kat Burke about the Irish restructuring toolkit and in particular, its potential as an implementation route for global workouts. Kat is Of Counsel in the Dispute Resolution & Insolvency team at Maples Group, Dublin. She is an Irish, English, US and BVI qualified corporate restructuring lawyer and has experience in key restructuring jurisdictions in...

On this episode of the Debtwired! podcast, Till Schweizer, Managing Director at Partners Group, joins Debtwire Europe’s Jelena Cvejic to discuss the current demand and supply dynamics in the leveraged loan market, and CLO positioning in light of a generally strong market and an increasing number of underperforming credits. Till Schweizer has been with Partners Group since 2007 and has 18 years of...

DLA Piper’s David Manson unpacks the key lessons from Germany-focused real estate business Aggregate Holdings’ contested restructuring plan process before the English High Court in an interview with Debtwire Europe’s Hossein Dabiri.

On the latest episode of the Debtwired! Podcast, Hannah Gates answers a range of questions on how private credit and bank lending markets are converging in new and unforeseen ways with Debtwire Europe’s Johannes Koch. Hannah specialises in lender-side domestic and cross-border leveraged finance transactions across the credit spectrum. Her practice covers acquisition and event-driven finance, and o...

On the Debtwired! Podcast, Carson Block, CEO of Muddy Waters, joins Debtwire Europe’s Head of High Yield Adam Samoon to discuss short selling trades in credit. Muddy Waters has exposed accounting issues and fraud at many global companies. This podcast examines what operational characteristics provide fundamentals for good short trades and monitors examples of trades that have been implemented. A n...

In this episode, we speak with Freshfields’ Craig Montgomery and Lindsay Hingston about Adler’s landmark restructuring plan, considering some of the key takeaways for future UK restructuring plans. German real estate group Adler’s UK restructuring plan secured its place in legal history recently as the English Court of Appeal allowed an appeal by a group of dissenting noteholders, overturning the...

In this episode, we speak with Simmons and Simmons’ Christopher Kranz and Simon Kirschner, about the German StaRUG procedure, with a focus on the innovative Softline restructuring. The German Act on the Stabilisation and Restructuring Framework for Businesses (StaRUG) came into force on 1 January 2021, implementing the EU Restructuring Directive – which obliges all EU member states to establish pr...

Dominik Spanier, MD at Lincoln International, joins Debtwire’s Johannes Koch to look at the year ahead for private debt in the German-speaking region and scour the market for challenges and opportunities for debt advisors. #privatedebt #Europe #Germany #LincolnInternational #debtadvisor

Florian Kluge, MD and COO Investor Relations at Ardian, joins Debtwire’s Johannes Koch to talk about how the fundraising market is developing and explore whether private debt has reached its peak. Florian Kluge joined Ardian in 2017. As managing director he is engaged in the firm’s fundraising efforts and closely involved in the firm’s relationships with investors in Germany, Austria and the UK. F...

Lee Buchheit, Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh Law School, talks about the use of value recovery instruments to resolve sovereign debt workouts with Debtwire's Laura Gardner. Lee takes us back to the origins of these tools, which were first used as part of the 1990s Brady-era debt restructurings. While in principle used to sweeten the deal for bondholders agreeing to significant u...

On the Debtwired! Podcast, Goldman Sachs Head of EMEA Leveraged Finance Dominic Ashcroft joins Debtwire Europe’s Head of High Yield Adam Samoon to discuss the outlook for the European LevFin market. LevFin volumes have staged a comeback this year though issuance still remains below recent historical levels. This podcast explores the future for leveraged finance issuance and whether the year-to-dat...

Lazard Managing Director Pierre Cailleteau joins Debtwire's Laura Gardner on the podcast to discuss domestic debt restructuring as part of sovereign debt negotiations. Pierre explains the difficulties a government is presented with when it chooses to restructure its domestic debt, the risks it can bring to its economy and why these exercises must be carefully calibrated. He also goes through three...

Debtwire's Jou Yu speaks with Sam Whittaker, Co-Head of Lazard’s Europe Restructuring & Liability Management Group, and his colleague Tom Howard, Co-Head of European Debt Advisory. They talk about a number of wide-ranging topics on debt restructuring and distressed debt in Europe, from the evolving role of the financial advisor, to how documentation is affecting restructuring negotiations, and...

Debtwire's Dan Anghelache speaks to Charlie Robertson, Head of Macro Strategy at FIM Partners, about the recent pressure on African sovereigns, especially in light of the slew of recent military coups in the region. Charlie considers the impact of elevated fertility rates in the region on sovereign default risk and whether this risk has been priced in by credit and equity markets. In particular, h...

Debtwire's Alex Dooler sits down with Ahmad Alanani, co-founder and CEO of Sancta Capital, to discuss the rise of non-performing loans (NPLs) in the Middle East. Following a landmark USD 1.1bn NPL transaction from ADCB earlier in the year, investors have been paying close attention to the emerging asset class. Despite the headlines, the market for NPLs still has some way to go and is bound by a ho...

Debtwire’s Laura Gardner speaks with Richard Cooper and Jim Ho, partners at Cleary Gottlieb, about new legislation being considered by the state of New York, and what it means for sovereign debt restructurings. Richard explains that the changes are made up of three separate bills, which seek to create a comprehensive mechanism to restructure sovereign debt, expand the champerty defense and limit c...

Debtwire's Laura Gardner speaks to Yvette Babb, emerging market debt portfolio manager at William Blair, about the risks facing sovereigns with upcoming debt maturities in a challenging funding environment. Yvette discusses the recent bright spots coming out of Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and Tunisia, and explains why there is growing optimism that a systemic debt crisis can be avoided. She also delves...