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Private equity firm Wendel is in negotiations with the main lenders to its French building materials company Materis over the terms of its amend and extend operation. It extended the consent deadline to January 27 just before Christmas after consent was not reached.
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An "overwhelming majority of lenders" approved the proposed amendments to £2.6bn of loans for UK directories group Yell, according to the company, although approval came only after the company made concessions to resisting lenders and pushed back the consent deadline several times.
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French banks were the dominant bookrunners in EMEA over 2011, but with the market shifting rapidly the league tables could look very different by at the end of 2012.
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Apollo is using €870m-equivalent of debt to back its buy-out of Belgian chemicals firm Taminco, and hopes to raise some of the debt in euros despite the deal being US-led.
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Leveraged finance bankers are working on financing packages to back the potential buy-out of ICG’s patent management group CPA Global.
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Several European borrowers brought deals to the syndicated loans market in the final weeks of 2011 as fears grew over the availability of capital in the new year. Borrowers, aware that issuance conditions were weakening, were keen to get in early with their transactions, even launching deals in the few days running up to Christmas.