Golub Capital’s enterprise growth firm has introduced a collection of structural adjustments to be able to cut back its borrowing prices and have further funding flexibility.
Golub Capital BDC (GBDC), accomplished a $2.2bn (£1.7bn) time period debt securitisation on 18 November. The secured notes had been issued by the corporate’s subsidiary Golub Capital BDC CLO 8 and are backed by a portfolio of collateral obligations.
In reference to this, GBDC has additionally absolutely redeemed three of its legacy collateralised mortgage obligations. These had been the $602.4m 2018 Debt Securitisation, the $908.2m GCIC 2018 Debt Securitisation and the $398.9m GBDC 3 2021 Debt Securitisation.
The corporate can even redeem a $386.6m debt securitisation in full, which is anticipated to happen on 16 December.
As well as, GBDC elevated its senior secured revolving credit score facility mixture commitments from $1.82bn to $1.89bn by including one new financial institution lending relationship. It is usually engaged on terminating the senior secured revolving credit score facility that was taken on within the acquisition of Golub Capital BDC 3 again in June.
These adjustments are anticipated to lead to a right away discount in GBDC’s general weighted common price of debt, the corporate mentioned in an announcement. Additionally they lengthen the weighted common maturity of GBDC’s debt funding construction and offers incremental liquidity to make investments.
GBDC mentioned it doesn’t anticipate adjustments to its credit score scores profile.
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“GBDC has sought to ship market-leading returns since its IPO in April 2010, and this evolution of the corporate’s post-GBDC 3 merger debt funding construction is a major step in furthering that goal,” mentioned Matthew Benton, chief working officer of the corporate. “These post-merger transactions, together with the inducement charge price discount that turned everlasting with the merger closing, achieves efficiencies of scale for the good thing about GBDC shareholders.”
Alan George, head of structured merchandise at Golub Capital, added: “12 months-to-date Golub Capital has executed over $16bn of securitizations throughout 23 distinctive transactions firmwide, retaining our spot because the market’s #1 issuer of center market CLOs by quantity. Finishing the 2024 debt securitisation for the good thing about GBDC shareholders, one of many largest CLOs on document, is a testomony to the energy of the Golub Capital platform and management within the debt capital markets.”
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