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Korea’s Kookmin Bank is eyeing a return to the dollar bond market, meeting with investors this week to gauge interest in a senior deal.

German medical care company Fresenius attracted 45 banks into a €3.8bn refinancing, closing the transaction on Tuesday.

AR Packaging, the Swedish maker of packaging for food, increased its LBO loans with a dividend recapitalisation deal on Tuesday. The move follows a trend of loan borrowers taking on more leverage ahead of new European Central Bank guidance on leverage limits.

Medco Energi Internasional, which issued a dollar bond last week, has returned to the debt market for a reserve based lending (RBL) facility for subsidiary Medco E&P Malaka.

British American Tobacco set fire to any notion that markets close in August this week with a $20.8bn bond bonanza. It brought a $17.25bn eight tranche deal on Tuesday — the second largest bond transaction of the year in the US — and followed that with a €3.6bn-equivalent four tranche dual currency deal in Europe on Wednesday. Nigel Owen reports.

Two further Schuldschein deals at least doubled in size this week after Lonza's bumper earlier deal, as the market eclipsed its issuance level for the whole of 2016.

After bringing the second largest bond transaction of the year in the US on Tuesday, British American Tobacco topped up its borrowing with a €3.6bn-equivalent four tranche dual currency deal on Wednesday.

Eurazeo, the private equity firm, is offering a loan to fund the leveraged buyout of Spain’s Iberchem, a fragrance and flavour maker, from Magnum Capital.

Lonza, the Swiss pharmaceutical ingredients and dosing methods supplier, has closed an €870m-equivalent dual tranche Schuldschein loan, refinancing debt backing its acquisition of US drug capsules maker Capsugel.

British American Tobacco is expected to bring the week-long run without any new corporate bond issuance to an end later this week. The UK based tobacco company could issue in dollars, euros and sterling.

Anglian Water priced the first green corporate bond in sterling since 2015 on Monday. The company’s green bond debut could herald a surge of deals from its peers, writes Nigel Owen.

Anglian Water priced a £250m eight year bond on Monday, its first green bond and the first from a UK water company since the Green Bond Principles were introduced in 2015.