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Four banks underwrote the $3bn prepayment facility for Swiss commodity trader Vitol to buy oil from Kazakhstan's KazMunaiGas (KMG).

Car parts distributor LKQ is set to become the first US company this year to issue a high yield bond in euros — and more US names may be on their way, bankers say.

Thai company PTTEP Offshore Investment has signed up four lenders for a $500m club loan.

Western Digital, the US maker of computer hard drives, has widened pricing on its $9.5bn loan package to entice reluctant lenders. The loan will back Western Digital’s $17bn acquisition of SanDisk.

A $300m dual-tranche loan for a subsidiary of palm oil producer Golden-Agri Resources has wrapped up with just two new banks coming in.

Adani Transmission has kicked off a series of investor meetings in Asia, Europe and the US to test appetite for an offshore rupee denominated note or Masala bond.

French industrial minerals producer Imerys brought two tranches of €300m sub benchmark notes to the European corporate bond market on Wednesday and clinched minimal concessions.

State Bank of India launched its $500m fundraising into general syndication on Tuesday via eight mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners.

Zodiac Aerospace, the French aeroplane seat maker, has sold a seven year Euro private placement to refinance an older Euro PP and the first instalment of a Schuldschein, both issued in 2013.

Indonesia Eximbank, which had been talking to lenders for the past few weeks for a $500m refinancing, has zeroed in on a group of eight lenders for the new club deal.

Syndication has closed for a $975m refinancing for India’s Reliance Industries, with four new lenders coming in.

As the European high yield market showed signs of becoming friendlier to borrowers, French car parts supplier Faurecia on Thursday sold €700m of notes to redeem a €490m unsecured bond.