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Credit Tenant Leases: The Phoenix from CMBS Ashes

July 23, 2010 - The CMBS market’s loss seems to be the CTL market’s gain. With most forms of financing for the commercial real estate market shut, investment-grade single-tenant properties on the CTL market turn to…

U.S. PP Pushes Past Economic Fears of First Half

July 14, 2010 - While other markets still feel the pressure of lingering economic concerns, the private bond market has been able to shrug these off…

Canada’s Junk Bond Market Hits Growth Spurt

July 12, 2010 - Junk bond issuance in Canada isn’t big, but it is growing, say market watchers north of the border…

June: U.S. PP Leapfrogs Over Other Markets

July 8, 2010 - As the fears of a double dip recession, high unemployment and an unstable Europe concerned many investors, the buysiders in the private placement market remained hungry…

Argentina's Chubut Debuts in Royalty-Backed Sector

June 29, 2010 - As of press time, the Argentina province of Chubut was approaching issuance of a deal backed by oil and gas royalties...

Salvadoran Cooperative Funds via Remittances

June 29, 2010 - DPR deal issuance has made a poor showing so far this year, with Scotiabank Peru the only originator to have hit the market...

O Canada Where Art Thou?

June 17, 2010 - Auto parts maker Linamar will be the first Canadian issuer in two months to tap the U.S. private bond market. As the year has progressed, our northern neighbors have shown less willingness to do business stateside because of opportunities in their local market…

Q&A: Waiting for the Project Financing Stampede

June 15, 2010 - Project financing attorney, Ellis Butler, talks about raising project funding on the private bond market and what sectors will be popular…

May: U.S. PP Flexes Its Muscle

June 3, 2010 - Considering last month went down as the worst for the Dow Jones Industrial Average since the 1940s, the private bond market didn’t fare too badly.

Real Estate: Waiting in the Wings

May 20, 2010 - Now that the private market has seen its first REIT deal, are more to follow?

2009 Buyside Survey: Steady As She Goes

May 12, 2010 - PPL’s 2009 Buyside Survey results are now available on the website…

Pricing Update: Heineken

May 10, 2010 - In spite of market turmoil, Heineken raises $725 on private bond market via JPMorgan…

April Volume Tails March

May 5, 2010 - Competing with March 2010 issuance was never going to be easy. The number to beat was $4.8 billion, and April’s performance, though respectable, wasn’t able to surpass that. Last month saw 11 deals resulting in almost $2.6 billion in issuance...

Where Europe Fails Australia Will Save the Day

April 29, 2010 - Who’s afraid of the big bad eurobond? Surely not Australia. Private placement issues out of Australia could well make up for what the U.S. market loses to the Continent…

Delayed Draws: Is Party Time Over?

April 28, 2010 - In the current rate environment delayed draws have been a good solution for issuers, and something that agents have been quick to pitch. But now delays are starting to shrink. Are they on their way out?