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  • Friends Provident became the latest insurer to raise capital when it completed a £245m convertible yesterday (Thursday). The offering was lead managed by Merrill Lynch, which led the life insurer's IPO last year. Like most of the insurers that have accessed the equity markets over the last few months, Friends Provident was seeking to strengthen its balance sheet to allow it to continue to write new business.
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    Barclays Capital is underwriting the debt facilities backing the buy-out of brake and clutch maker FTE from Dana Corp. The debt will be syndicated next year.
  • GECC completed its biggest term funding year on record this week with a $4bn offering of global bonds, bringing its total capital raising for 2002 to $85bn. The deal, led by Deutsche Bank, CSFB and UBS Warburg, included $1.5bn of five year and $2.5bn of 10 year bonds and is the biggest dollar global issue by any corporate since GECC last brought a $2.75bn two year floater and a $1.25bn seven year global to market in mid-September.
  • CSFB Private Equity is looking to exit its investment in casino and bingo hall business Gala. The sale may be a secondary buy-out, with potential bidders BC Partners and a consortium of CVC and Candover, or may be a recapitalisation.
  • Rating: Aaa/AAA Amount: Eu1bn
  • Rating: Aaa/AAA Amount: Sfr200m (fungible with Sfr350m issue launched 12/11/02)
  • Rating: Aaa/AAA Amount: $4bn
  • Amount: Eu733m Rating: Moody's/Standard & Poor's Legal maturity: November 20, 2012 Issue price: 100.00 Call option: 10% clean up Class A notes: Eu689m Rating: Aaa/AAA Average life: 3.99 years Coupon: three month Euribor plus 45bp Class B notes: Eu44m Rating: A1/A Average life: 5.23 years Coupon: three month Euribor plus 75bp Launched: Tuesday December 3 Joint books: ABN Amro, Deutsche Bank Secured on: Spanish and Italian auto loans originated by FCE Bank
  • Bookrunners of the Eu15bn revolver for E.On hope to wrap up syndication next week. Banks continue to grumble about the deal's aggressive pricing, but the arrangers remain confident that it will be closed oversubscribed. "I am not surprised some banks are complaining," said a banker from one of the arrangers. "The company is putting a lot of pressure on its banks and this is bound to annoy some of them."
  • Rating: Aa1/AA/AAA Amount: Eu50m Hypotheken Pfandbrief
  • Highland Gold Mining, a Russian gold mine operator with backing from the Fleming banking family, is preparing an IPO on London's Aim market which will value it at £200m. The deal will comprise a £20.6m capital increase plus a £3.1m greenshoe of secondary shares. WH Ireland is Highland Gold's broker and adviser.
  • Arrangers Bank of China, BNP Paribas, HSBC, ICBC Asia, Standard Chartered and SG are waiting for Rabobank to finalise head office credit approvals before closing the $200m five year term loan for Cofco (Hong Kong). The borrower decided to increase the facility from $180m following a strong response from the market.