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AT&T, the US's largest telecoms company, returned to the euro bond market on Thursday, a day after technology firm IBM, this time with a whopping €3.8bn three tranche deal.

Yildiz Holding, the Turkish food manufacturer, has announced details of the debt package that will back its buyout of United Biscuits, in advance of a London bank meeting on Friday.

Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas's shareholders approved a €1bn capital increase at an extraordinary shareholders meeting on Thursday in Barcelona, allowing the Spanish building and environmental services company to begin restructuring a €4.5bn loan.

High-grade issuers swamped the dollar market in the early part of the week trying to get in before Alibaba’s debut $8bn offering on Thursday while expecting a deluge of M&A related financings.

Fresenius Medical Care, the US subsidiary of German global healthcare group Fresenius, is closing books on a $4.2bn refinancing loan this week, offering margins at a level more familiar to investment grade borrowers than those in the double-B pocket.

Heavyweight borrowers Citigroup and Westpac Banking Corp printed deals tailored to capture investor preference for short-dated paper in the US market this week.

UK biscuit maker United Biscuits has given guidance on the currency split of the £760m-equivalent term loan ‘B’ slice of its leveraged buyout by Yildiz.

Reliance Jio Infocomm’s $1.5bn dual tranche loan that opened in September has been allocated among 26 lenders, 11 of which joined during general syndication. Thin pricing did not stop Taiwanese, Japanese and Middle Eastern lenders from piling into the deal, as it gave them a chance to form a relationship with India’s biggest private sector company.

BBVA is raising €2bn of fresh equity this evening to finance its acquisition of a 14.89% stake in Turkey’s Garanti Bank – taking its stake in the bank to 39.9%. The €2bn will pay for the whole stake.

Fresenius Medical Care, the US subsidiary of Fresenius SE, is closing books on a $4.2bn refinancing loan today, offering margins at a level more familiar to investment grade borrowers than double-B credits like Fresenius.

Informa, the UK business-to-business publishing and events group, launched a cash box placing on Tuesday morning, hoping to raise about £275m to fully fund an acquisition of Hanley Wood Exhibitions, a US events business, which was announced simultaneously. Informa got the deal done, but only raised £207m after some top shareholders said they preferred a smaller deal.

Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas, the Spanish building and environmental services company, is close to reaching agreement with its creditors on a debt restructuring, according to a spokesman for the company.