Crédit Agricole
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United Internet — Vimpelcom — Geberit
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Crédit Agricole priced the year’s largest deal from a European financial issuer in samurai format on Thursday, raising a total of ¥135.5bn ($1.15bn) from a four-tranche, fixed-floating rate transaction.
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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.
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Numericable completed its €4.7bn capital increase this week, bringing to an end the financing for the French cable operator’s acquisition of SFR.
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Flydubai has launched its $500m five year sukuk at 200bp over mid-swaps. The deal will be priced later on Wednesday afternoon, with the lead managers on the trade disclosing that they will be taking a piece of the sukuk.
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Indonesian oil and gas company Pertamina, which mandated 12 lenders for its $1.8bn five year loan in October, launched the facility into general syndication on November 18.
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China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) may be a regular in the debt market, but it managed to reposition itself through its latest $1.5bn trade thanks to a first time guarantee from the parent. Such was the response from investors that it added a floating rate note during bookbuilding.
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Indonesian oil and gas company Pertamina, which mandated 12 lenders for its $1.8bn five year loan in October, launched the facility into general syndication on November 18.
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Mercialys, the French property company spun off from supermarkets group Casino, priced a €550m 8.3 year bond on Tuesday, in conjunction with a buyback offer for its €650m 2019 bond, to extend its debt maturity profile.
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United Internet will complete its Schuldschein deal on Friday, raising at least €500m, according to a banker on the deal.
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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.
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Publicis Groupe's $3.5bn loan for its acquisition of Sapient, the marketing and consulting company, is near closing, according to a banker working on the deal. A syndicate of relationship banks has been invited.