BNP Paribas

Materis, the French construction chemicals and materials producer, has released tranche sizes and price guidance on two refinancing loans totalling €584m for its admixtures and decorative paint businesses.

UK firm Imperial Tobacco has signed a $13.19bn-equivalent loan to back its acquisition of brands including Winston and Maverick from Reynolds American.

Chinese telecommunications equipment provider ZTE Corp has closed syndication of its $450m four year bullet loan, signing up 12 banks.

Property duo Sino-Ocean Land and Sunshine 100 are meeting investors next week in connection with a possible dollar offerings.

Lai Sun Garment priced a new four year on July 17 and used investor friendly covenants to achieve tighter pricing. The structure proved attractive and the book was nearly five times subscribed.

Net4Gas, the Czech gas transmission system operator, launched its first bond on Thursday, raising €460m with a two tranche deal.

Borrowers' continued confidence in the leveraged loans market is affecting deal structure, with private healthcare operators Générale de Santé and Quirón structuring their respective €1.1bn and €2.15bn deals to target term loan ‘B’s to banks, who usually prefer the amortising payments of term loan ‘A’s.

Huvepharma, the Bulgarian pharmaceutical company, is raising a €275m loan to back the Domuschiev family’s outright purchase of the company.

Lai Sun Garment and China Unicom issued guidance on new dim sum bonds on Thursday.

Bank Rakyat Indonesia, which started sounding out lenders for a fresh fundraising in early May, has picked seven banks for a $370m loan, managing to increase it from the $300m it was originally targeting.

A group of eight banks is expected to lead Shanda Games’ leveraged buyout loan of between $750m and $850m, which will help fund the company's going-private plans.

Petrofac FPSO Holding is in the market for a $225m loan with a six year tenor that has been launched into limited syndication.