For our last instalment in our series of climate themed seminars, we are delighted to invite you to join us to hear Edoardo Gai, from our partner firm S&P Global, talk about providing ESG data in this rapidly changing environment.
The European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA) is hosting a virtual workshop to bring together sub-investment grade corporate borrowers and credit analysts to discuss environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors that may be material to credit risk and topics that investors would like to see disclosed in offering materials and ongoing company reporting.
This year has seen a surge high yield deals incorporating an ESG contractual component, accounting for 12% of the European primary high-yield bond market by volume, and 15% by deal count in the first quarter, compared with around 2% on both measures for both 2019 and 2020*. The growth of sustainability-linked bond issues echoes a similar trend in the leveraged loan market. However, the impact of ESG in the high yield market is now being seen beyond just the increase in green and sustainability-linked bonds.
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