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Loan Ranger received a rather, er... intriguing evening invitation from one leveraged finance banker this week. “Dinner could be okay however I need to know if your side will be offended by my love of contemporary dance (aka the Soho Ballet),” it read.
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The largest mezzanine deal of 2011 has provided an unexpected opportunity for lenders to a major European LBO, although high yield bond and leveraged loan players dispute how much potential the previously dormant market might offer the nearly €5bn of further hung bridges seeking refinancing.
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Turkey’s Akbank has signed a one year loan that carries an all-in pricing of 100bp and refinances the one year portion of a $1.2bn loan that was signed last summer.
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German chemicals firm BASF signed a €3bn facility on Thursday, pulling in around €6bn of commitments despite the deal carrying a margin of only 27.5bp.
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Arrangers of Polkomtel’s Z6.394bn (€1.55bn) senior buy-out loans have gone out to banks with a view to increasing the company’s Z2.394bn (€573m) term loan ‘B’ by the zloty equivalent of €300m, and decreasing the euro-denominated high yield bond by the same amount, according to a banker.