US LevFin Wrap — ‘Quakes and Herbalife shakes
- David Bell
- +Nicolle Liu
This week was punctuated by hot economic data reports as well as an actual earthquake in New York on Friday, but the action in leveraged finance primary markets was a little less than seismic.
Debt syndications for Herbalife and Genesee & Wyoming highlighted some shifts in the tectonic plates of bond and loan markets. Both issuers shifted the structure of their deals, with G&W boosting the loans and downsizing the bonds, and Herbalife doing the opposite.