Louise Bowman

Recent stories by Louise Bowman

• CMBS: Tesco turns back the clock

  Corporate, not real estate, is key; White Tower teeters on the brink

  Euromoney July 2009

• Restructuring: Moelis ups the ante in Europe

  Aedy begins to build team; Restructuring opportunities top of agenda

  Euromoney July 2009

• Corporate finance: Struggling corporates should face their troubles

  Time won’t solve problems; Transparency is paramount

  Euromoney July 2009

• Distressed debt buyback bargains prove elusive

  Corporate lending has slowed to a trickle, so distressed issuers are turning to debt exchanges and buybacks to avoid bankruptcy. While the leveraged loan market trades well below par, owners and sponsors see this as a no-brainer, but noteholders may have very different ideas. Louise Bowman reports.

  Euromoney June 2009

• Rating implications

  Euromoney June 2009

• Restructuring: Lenders rediscover their defensive side

  Debtholders pushing back; Sponsors frustrated in restructuring plans

  Euromoney June 2009

• Debt advisory - Michael Berry: It’s good to talk

  When he set up debt adviser Versatus, ex-Nomura leveraged finance chief Michael Berry joined a growing universe of ex-bankers looking to join in the corporate turnaround and restructuring business. He speaks to Louise Bowman.

  Euromoney May 2009

• Infrastructure funds show their staying power

  The potential for huge profits may no longer be there but good opportunities can still be found. Louise Bowman reports.

  Euromoney May 2009

• The role of government: spend, spend, spend

  Governments are committed to boosting infrastructure spending, but they must take care on how they do it. Louise Bowman reports.

  Euromoney May 2009

• Monetary policy: ECB poised to focus on quantitative easing

  Euromoney May 2009

• Debt advisory: The smart money goes for advice

  Private equity stepping in to the vacuum left by lending banks.

  Euromoney May 2009

• Capital markets round up: Henderson targets advisory

  During 2008, Henderson Global Investors expanded into the advisory business and Ganesh Rajendra has been hired to drive this part of the business forward. Rajendra last worked at Deutsche Bank, where he was head of European ABS research.

  Euromoney May 2009

• CMBS: We can’t work it out

  Senior and junior noteholders are at war, navigating a complex legal web to extract some value from Europe’s unravelling CMBS market. Louise Bowman explains the limited options available to the servicers stuck in the middle.

  Euromoney April 2009

• Infrastructure boom hits capital desert

  Governments on both sides of the Atlantic have announced ambitious infrastructure spending commitments. But they will have to negotiate a much-changed bank lending market to realize their plans. Louise Bowman reports.

  Euromoney April 2009

• Nord Stream looks for flows in funding pipeline

  At the start of this year, Gazprom cut off the gas it pipes to Ukraine in protest at unpaid bills. Supplies to Ukraine’s neighbours were also disrupted for several weeks. As concern spread across ­Europe over security of supply from the Russian state company that delivers 35% of the continent’s gas, executives of Nord Stream, a joint venture company in which Gazprom owns a 51% stake, were already sounding out bankers for the financing of a new pipeline project now at the start of construction.

  Euromoney April 2009

• ECB poised to focus quantitative easing on corporate debt

  The ECB could soon take the unprecedented step of buying private debt. But opinion is sharply divided as to whether such quantitative easing will work.

  Published April 2009 euromoney.com

• CMBS: The value of loan-to-value

  Euromoney April 2009

• Case study: Plantation Place

  Euromoney April 2009

• Case study: Four Seasons

  Euromoney April 2009

• CLO downgrades: CLO market teeters on the brink

  Euromoney April 2009