Bianca Boorer

London

Senior Reporter at 9fin

Reporter on distressed debt and restructurings in Europe for @9finHQ. Views are my own.

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9Questions - Kai Zeng, Paul Weiss - Making Europe American again

Feb 12, 2025 | 9fin.com | Bianca Boorer

9Questions is our Q&A series featuring key decision-makers in the corporate credit markets — get in touch if you know who we should be talking to!Europe tends to follow the US in terms of paths and trends. In the distressed market the catch-up has been on aggressive tactics for restructuring deals, with LMEs and co-ops making themselves increasingly felt in Europe. To discuss the Americanisation of the European market, 9fin sat down with Kai Zeng, restructuring partner at Paul Weiss.
Altice France secured creditors’ recoveries improve under latest proposal

Jan 31, 2025 | 9fin.com | Bianca Boorer |Nathan R. Mitchell

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Winding Up - New Year, new inflation

Jan 17, 2025 | 9fin.com | Bianca Boorer

Winding Up is 9fin's weekly newsletter, incorporating summaries and commentary from our European distressed coverage for the past week. Sign up for this newsletter here. European policymakers are doing everything they can to make 2025 a year of growth — which is coming with a natural side effect: inflation rising again.
Winding Up - Trump presents challenge to distressed credits with prospect of inflationary pressure

Nov 8, 2024 | 9fin.com | Bianca Boorer

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Winding Up - Thames Water deal douses nationalisation fears ahead of budget

Oct 25, 2024 | 9fin.com | Bianca Boorer

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TalkTalk to retranche £1bn senior debt into 1L & 2L with margin uplift

Sep 3, 2024 | 9fin.com | Bianca Boorer |Teri Buhl

News and AnalysisBianca Boorer+Teri Buhl3 September 2024•5 min readUK telecom’s provider TalkTalk is looking to retranche its £1bn of senior secured debt into new first lien (1L) and second lien (2L) bonds and loans, sources told 9fin. A person familiar with the situation described it as a great deal, given the significant increase in the coupon compared with the outstanding bonds, and the much tighter documentation.
Winding Up - Co-ops demonstrate fine line between brotherly love and family feuds

Aug 30, 2024 | 9fin.com | Bianca Boorer

Market WrapBianca Boorer30 August 2024•7 min readWinding Up is 9fin's weekly newsletter, incorporating summaries and commentary from our European distressed coverage for the past week. Find out more about what we do for distressed here. Little by little Kloeckner Pentaplast’s secured creditors are garnering signatures for a co-op across its $725m TLB, €600m TLB and €400m SSNs all maturing in 2026.
Winding Up - Creditors couple up to crack on with restructuring deals

Aug 16, 2024 | 9fin.com | Bianca Boorer

Market WrapBianca Boorer16 August 2024•4 min readWinding Up is 9fin's weekly newsletter, incorporating summaries and commentary from our European distressed coverage for the past week. Find out more about what we do for distressed here. In distressed land several partnerships have been struck as creditors rally around struggling companies to save them from dire straits (this is in the same week that Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury decided to break their union).
Winding Up - Junk in the Thames

Aug 2, 2024 | 9fin.com | Bianca Boorer

Market WrapBianca Boorer2 August 2024•8 min readWinding Up is 9fin's weekly newsletter, incorporating summaries and commentary from our European distressed coverage for the past week. Find out more about what we do for distressed here. You’d think that with the sun finally showing its face that maybe the distressed activity would die down. Well, it hasn’t!This week 9fin took a trip back to the good old Rolls Building to watch the convening hearing for OQ Chemicals on Wednesday, 31 July.
Winding Up - England loses but Atos wins

Jul 19, 2024 | 9fin.com | Bianca Boorer

Market WrapBianca Boorer19 July 2024•7 min readWinding Up is 9fin's weekly newsletter, incorporating summaries and commentary from our European distressed coverage for the past week. Find out more about what we do for distressed here. Although England sadly lost its second Euros final in a row, Atos, which was the official IT sponsor of the tournament, has successfully raised the funding required for its restructuring.