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State-owned Bharat Petroleum Corp has mandated a group of seven banks for its $500m six year financing, expected to launch into syndication in mid-October. -
Korea Exchange Bank has signed a $250m one year term loan with seven lenders, in a deal that was closed as a club rather than in syndication.
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After its shock move at the end of 2011 to restrict Austrian bank lending in central and eastern Europe, the Austrian Central Bank is taking a "very active role" in a pan-European initiative to avoid chaotic bank deleveraging in the region, the former chief executive of Raiffeisen Bank International has told EuroWeek.
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Dell’s €700m landmark paves the way for further covenant-lite leveraged loans in Europe, bankers and investors agreed this week. Part of the US computer maker’s jumbo LBO financing, the oversubscribed and increased deal defied the scepticism that has long surrounded the product in Europe — especially since publisher Springer Science+Business Media had to offer a discount of 96.5 on an ambitious €615m offering in July.
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With the amount of liquidity sloshing around the syndicated loan markets pushing prices for new deals ever tighter, borrowers from across the market are being tempted to refinance facilities way ahead of schedule.
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Emma Delta, an investment fund controlled by a Czech billionaire and a Greek shipowner, wants to issue €400m of first and second lien unrated high yield bonds to part-finance its takeover of a 33% stake in OPAP, the Greek lottery and football betting company. The deal is Greece’s biggest privatisation this year.
