Dufry hires 13 to market Sfr650m of refinancing

Dufry, the Swiss travel retailer, has launched a new Sfr650m ($695.2m) multicurrency facility, hiring 13 banks to arrange the syndication of the loan. BBVA, Banco Santander, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Crédit Agricole, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, ING, Morgan Stanley, RBI, Royal Bank of Scotland, UBS and UniCredit have been named as bookrunners and mandated lead arrangers on the new deal, which will be marketed to the company’s existing relationship banks.