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  • A richly priced $975 million facility that will be used to finance the acquisition of UK-based Inmarsat Ventures by Grapeclose Limited, a company formed by private equity firms Apax Partners and Permira, is expected to be heartily received by the market.
  • Goldman Sachs and UBS are rounding up accounts for the bank debt backing Thomas H. Lee Partners' $1.1 billion acquisition of Simmons Co. from Fenway Partners.
  • Wachovia Securities has launched syndication of a credit facility for Colgate Medical to back its parent company Orthofix's $150 million acquisition of BREG, a manufacturer of rehabilitative and pain management products.
  • Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse First Boston have landed lead roles on the financing for Code Hennessy & Simmons' acquisition of AMF Bowling Worldwide.
  • The potential effect of increases in professional and general liability claims, rising labor costs and the volatile reimbursement rate environment on Mariner Health Care have been incorporated into Moody's Investors Service's assignment of a Ba3 rating to the company's new $220 million credit facility.
  • Syndication is said to be going strongly on the $390 million credit facility backing Texas Pacific Group and J.P Morgan Partners' $770 million acquisition of Kraton Polymers from Ripplewood Holdings.
  • Investors gained some concessions on the repricing of Alaris Medical Systems' $235 million "B" loan by Citibank.