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BNP Paribas has underwritten the debt facilities backing the Eu120m Bridgepoint-led buy-out of Caffaro Flexible Packaging from industrial group SNIA. The new company will be called CFP Flexible Packaging. The Eu74.5m of senior debt is split into a Eu25m six year amortising term loan 'A' which carries a margin of 210bp over Euribor and a Eu17m 7-1/2 year bullet term loan 'B' which pays a margin of 260bp. There is also a Eu10m six year revolver with bullet repayment offering a margin of 210bp and a Eu22m six year amortising capex facility paying 210bp.

Some 83.19% of Jefferson Smurfit Group's shareholders this week voted in favour of Madison Dearborn Partners' Eu3.7bn offer for the company. Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch, which are arranging the Eu3.8bn debt facilities backing the buy-out, hope that the positive news will boost the sluggish momentum of the debt's sub-underwriting phase.

Mandated arranger Citigroup/SSB will sign banks into the $75m three year facility for JSC Kazakhmys on Monday. The deal has been oversubscribed but it will not be increased. Deutsche Bank, SG, ING, Natexis Banques Populaires, KBC and Crédit Lyonnais make up the syndicate.

Guarantor: FSA Amount: $500m (RegS/144a)

UK retailer Kingfisher completed its £2bn rights issue this week, after shareholders subscribed to an impressive 95.95% of the shares on offer. Underwriters Credit Suisse First Boston, Goldman Sachs and UBS Warburg sold the remaining £94m rump on Monday at 181p, an 8% discount to the close the day before.

Amount: $110m Rating: A3

Rating: Aaa/AAA Amount: A$95m

Amount: Sfr100m Maturity: August 27, 2010

The $250m two year term loan for Cho Hung Bank has received an excellent reception from the market and has been successfully completed. Co-ordinating arrangers comprise ABN Amro, Crédit Lyonnais, ING and Standard Chartered lending $24m each, Development Bank of Singapore committing $23m, Natexis Banques Populaires, Landesbank Schleswig-Holstein Girozentrale and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp taking $20m piece.

Guarantor: Federal Republic of Germany Rating: Aaa/AAA/AAA

The deadline to respond to Islandsbanki's and Lands-virkjun's Discover Iceland expedition has closed but it is amazing the lengths Bill Symington and Ingvar Ragnarsson have gone to drum up interest. Anybody watching the business round-up on BBC1's breakfast news this week will have seen Declan Curry, its bespectacled analyst, standing unwittingly in front of one of Islandsbanki's infamous do-it-yourself Viking helmets. Leak wonders how the horny helmet got there but we got the message and quickly RSVPed. One dealer certain not to make the Icelandic trip is ABN Amro's new head of desk, Anthony Everill. As if the pressures of a new job were not enough, Mrs Everill is providing more stress - a second baby boy. The baby is due around the same time as the market uproots to Iceland and while the likes of Gavin Eddy mix their Brennivin with whisky, Anthony will be left mixing water with powdered milk.

Compiled by Richard FavisRBC Capital Markets, Johannesburg Tel: +27 11 784 5065