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Mizuho Corporate Bank has attracted a handful of banks to a selldown of a $500m dual-tranche loan that it provided to Korea Development Bank last year.
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Changes to the UK Takeover Code brought in last September are now stepping up the pressure on the traditionally opaque private equity industry to open itself up to public scrutiny. The changes, which require full disclosure of the all the finance documents used to carry out takeovers of companies listed on the London Stock Exchange, add to the growing sense of a private equity industry that is under siege from all sides — regulators, politicians and investors.
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Noble Group has returned to the international loan market with a $1.5bn deal, and will be on the road over the next few weeks to drum up demand. Funding officials from the company will pitch the deal to potential lenders in Hong Kong and Singapore in the middle of April, and have already met potential investors in the US and the UK.
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A select group of banks are working with Bain or Lion Capital on the financing of a potential buy-out of French optical goods business Alain Afflelou, which has Ebitda of €70m-€75m. Final bids for the company are due at the end of April.
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Swedish building group Ahlsell’s €530m term loan ‘B’ that was allocated at 98 was trading at par this week after strong scalebacks in primary syndication. The scalebacks came despite sponsor CVC opting to increase the size of the term loan ‘B’ by €20m from its previous size of €510m.
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Market sentiment towards debt for Dubai state-owned firms took a leap forward this week as lenders close to port operator DP World’s new $1bn loan praised the firm’s decision to repay a $3bn revolving credit facility six months early.