Middle East Loans

Eagle Hills Diyar, a real estate developer headquartered in Abu Dhabi, has signed a 10 year $374m-equivalent loan, in dollars and Bahraini dinars, with a selection of Middle Eastern banks. The proceeds will be used to fund three buildings in its waterfront development in Bahrain.

Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund, Mubadala, has refinanced a $1.75bn loan, increasing it to $2bn after receiving heavy oversubscription.

Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB) and Union National Bank (UNB) have officially merged, and acquired Al Hilal Bank. The merger creates the third largest lender in the United Arab Emirates, and comes amid a boom in banking M&A across the Gulf.

The US real estate investment trust Reality Income is planning a £300m bond sale to part finance its acquisition of 12 properties in the UK linked to grocer J Sainsbury’s.

UAE alternative investment and asset management firm, Gulf Capital, has closed a $136.12m-equivalent revolving credit facility.

Trading of Saudi Aramco’s $12bn bond has slowed considerably since it was priced on Tuesday last week, but all five tranches have failed to rebound to reoffer, and the longer ones were 1.5 points down by Wednesday afternoon this week.

Bank are having to dig deep and increase their country lending limits to manage the vast amount of business expected to come from the Gulf as government expenditure across the region grows. The next big deal off the rank will be from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, Public Investment Fund (PIF), which is expected to tap the loan market for a bridge loan of up to $11bn in coming months, bankers said, following its highly successful debut deal in September. Mariam Meskin reports.

Dubai-based property firm Damac has raised £175m to finance the development of its first luxury real estate project in London, Damac Tower. The deal comes amid prolonged Brexit uncertainty and a slump in the UAE’s real estate market.

Mubadala, Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund, is due to close a $2bn loan refinancing in coming weeks, according to bankers familiar with the deal.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries has completed a $2.3bn loan syndication, to replace a $3bn revolving credit facility.

Emirates NBD (ENBD) has renegotiated the price it is paying to buy Turkish lender Denizbank from Sberbank after the fall of the lira since the deal was first announced last year. Some bankers have wondered how the acquisition will be financed, but ENBD has told GlobalCapital the bank will not raise debt to fund the deal.

State oil company Saudi Aramco is expected to tap the bond market in the next fortnight for a deal that could be anywhere in the region of $7bn-$15bn, according to bankers in the region away from the deal. Estimates of the premium Aramco will have to pay over the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia curve is being discussed as negative to plus 15bp, depending on the size of the deal.