It's been a great half-year thus far for Barclays Capital's European leveraged lending business: The firm topped the first half 2006 European leveraged loan league tables with a massive $22.214 billion in loan volume, according to data from Thomson Financial, thereby marking a significant jump from the seventh position it occupied on the charts for the first half of 2005.
Barclays' performance also exemplifies the high-octane nature of the European loan market so far this year, which with a grand total of approximately $174 billion in proceeds, has seen one jumbo financing after the other. (Barclays itself led 23 issues, including jumbo loans for BP's petrochemical division, Innovene, Ineos Group and TDC.)
Market participants expect that the strong pace of activity …
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