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Sberbank has signed the largest and longest Russian bank loan of 2012, completing a new $1.5bn three year credit facility with a tight margin and setting a pricing benchmark that other Russian firms have since strived to follow.
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Advent International’s success in buying listed companies looks set to finally give leveraged loan investors some new money LBOs to contemplate after the private equity firm decide to finance its buy-out of German retailer Douglas Group with a senior loan and mezzanine financing of around €800m.
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Rosneft’s proposed $56bn takeover of TNK-BP could pave the way for one of the biggest pieces of corporate financing in recent years, with loans bankers confident that the Russian state-owned oil company could command huge commitments from lenders in the region desperate for a role in such a prominent deal. But they caution that the market will have to get creative, writes Nina Flitman.
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Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, the initial mandated lead arranger and co-ordinator on First Gulf Bank’s three year bullet loan, has this week closed the syndication of the facility "nicely oversubscribed".
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Frozen food company Birds Eye Iglo has launched an amend and extend as it seeks permission to pay owner Permira a €319m dividend. In so doing, it becomes the latest company to take advantage of benign market conditions to attempt a transaction that many thought impossible only a few months ago given macroeconomic uncertainty in Europe.